Very arbitrary valuation though. Anyone could develop a terrible product and decide to value the rights for five million, it doesn’t mean the company has made that much cash or could be sold for that much. It’s only worth 5m if someone decides to pay that for the company. Otherwise, it’s only worth what tiny profits it’s making each year
@@organicbadboyx3948 the idea is the easy part. product development, marketing & sales is the hard part. you can have the best idea in the world but with no team, no marketing and no produxt you won’t sver become rich
To be fair techmoan did refuse a replacement when offered. It would have been to have him compare the company approved replacement with the old one to see if there's any difference.
I love how the inventor only played them 10 seconds of music (which was merely just a beat), so they couldn't notice how horribly off the pitch is or hear the wow and flutter. I'm sure he was careful not to let them see all the scratches left on the record when he was done. Any UA-cam video of someone demo-ing this on a track with vocals will make you laugh.
The UK version of this show Dragon's Den would have destroyed him and I doubt he would have left with anything XD go watch some of their episodes they're ruthless and really push the pitchers to breaking point and find all the cracks in their product/business model.
There is a thing called "development" it might sounds worst now but after the guy have the company I'm sure they will provide it to be a better rokblok
Ry Le this gimmick has been around for decades. It used to be in the form of a car. Was a gimmick then is a gimmick now. Tried it and the only thing it does is destroy your record.
Kevin explains in a different video on how each pitch is like 2 hours long, the editing crew just shortens it for entertainment. They have to take long, in a business deal, you can't explain a whole company's numbers in like 5 minutes and decide if youre going to invest.
@@doc.voltold4232 failed miserably? The guy said it won’t be something that takes off, and yet it’s still up and running. Imagine selling a couple hundred units a day, or something that is almost obsolete to the world we live in day. You’re just a hater like biscuits McGee , but all he gives people is dry ass cotton mouth lol
You can actually hear the motor when it starts up. That’s a problem when you have a quiet moments in a song. On top of all the other issues. Robert was right about one this this will be a slow burn when 3 years later I’m just now finding out about it
Notice how he only played a drum loop with no guitars, keyboards, etc. If they heard the pitched instruments he wouldn’t get any deals. He cheated his way through.
Why are people so salty about this? Wouldn't think company have the ability & time to improve the product? I guess the saltiness comes from the fact that as a current consumer you want 'quality' vs a half azzed music player
I mean It makes perfect sense to use music that would work best on your product for an investment pitch. I wouldn't call that cheating I would call that common sense.
I like how he said- Just put your hand over it, to stop it. As if it used cool new technology, instead of it just being him pushing the ‘antenna’ down!! 😂😂
The offer was so bizarre that I couldn't believe it. Robert also bought into the seat-belt interlock, an idea that came and went in 1974. From the reviews, the product RokBlok has low sound quality and isn't gentle to the records. Clearly, if you're an aficionado, you keep the records safely at home, with a recording of them on DVD or thumb-drive for travel.
Anybody here from TechMoan? It was a kickstarter product and the idea was taken well, however the product is horrible. It ruins ever record it comes into contact with and it sounds like crap
You didnt listen properly. He used the words Worlds first and wireless bluetooth in the same sentence. So yeah hes technically right but morally wrong.
LOL! I just seen this product on Pawn Stars. It’s a 1970’s Japanese product called the Sound Wagon! What a con artist lol but so are the sharks so who cares😂
@@adnamamedia The reason I came here is because I’m watching Pawn Stars and seen the original product.. so I remember seeing it on Shark Tank and him saying he created it and the sharks being AMAZED LOL!
These have been around since the mid 70's. They were a terrible idea then and a terrible idea now. Surely someone would have improved upon or upgraded the design by now? You can argue that the RokBlok did that, but I wouldn't say adding bluetooth is a drastic improvement on the overall concept. The mechanical design itself is flawed, as it seems impossible to use it without damaging your records and maintaing peoper speed. It's a pointless, flawed gimmick then and now. You can't upgrade or improve an idea that was shit to begin with.
I mean regardless of the sound itself, the technology is amazing and it would definitely sell to a lot of old heads and people who collect vinyl just based on the fact that it’s a cool little gadget, great invention and an amazing deal
@@speedlimitwilliamwatson9393 too bad people don’t understand how terrible this product is. It’s sort of an ok concept, but in reality it just doesn’t work.
The point is that little carts driving around your record have been around since the 80s, back then they usually looked like VW trucks or the like. All of them, including this one, sound horribly warped and destroy your record permanently because their stylus weighs to much onto the platter. This particular one maxes out most stylus scales actually. Terrible Purchase
BenBenson half half actually, but I gotta admit Techmoan destroyed this perfectly. There were other Videos before Techmoan who basically delivered the same info though.
There are a lot of negative comments and I saw the review from Techmoans. The thing is, all of that is correctable and Robert has a tech background. They both got awesome deals.
Oh?!? Is that why even today that nothing has changed in it besides the price being 60 bucks now. Way higher than it was 3 years ago. Also. It still messes up vinyls. You can hear the motor going when things go quiet on the record. As well as other bullshit that still happens on it. Just happy the man got his cash and ran with it
@@goo_90 the actual quality of the product is not what I’m referring to. I do a fair bit of music production and a ruining a vinyl sucks. I called it “phenomenal” because if done well, this product could likely sell like flapjacks.
I'm happy for the guy but I don't get it. Why are people still buying vanyl? And who carries vanyl records around with them to need a portable player?? It's all just so bizzare.
"Experts" this guy just bought a wooden vinyl killer. He didn't even fix the fatal flaw with the original vw bus one in that this is driving the stylus straight into the record opposite of how the whole thing is designed to work
There's a sucker born every minute (or nearly two minutes, in this case) - this has to be one of the worst _things_ ever made. Period. The maker was so darn smart for taking that deal, because it's certainly more than he'll ever make on that garbage.
We see a 1 minute and 57 second clip of their interaction - that's roughly 2 minutes. Even if the pitch itself is about 30 seconds of those 2 minutes, that was not the end of the interaction. I meant what I said and I said what I meant. It was already pretty presumptive to put words in my mouth like that, but you had to follow up with a personal dig too - nice!
500k plus a 6 figure contract so another 100k-300k probably within 2 years and $5 royalties. He’s gonna become a millionaire if he plays his cards right.
Yes Gary Crawford is right! This guy did not invent the concept the VW Soundwagon was made in the 70's he just added blue tooth tech to get it to play on a real stereo system. Either the company folded or the patent ran out but a brilliant move. No wonder he accepted the deal so fast. Oh and but the way Robert's pipe dream that he will invent more products, that's too funny. See the original VW SoundWagonin the link below. ua-cam.com/video/aIwkhBiROQ4/v-deo.html
I think this is a genius product unlike many in the comments. Robert is no dummy. The technology is there!! Of course they will tweak the bugs and kinks out but this will be a must have tool for vinyl enthusiasts around the world.
I’m not a vinyl collector, so I ask genuinely, how would this destroy a vinyl? It moves with it, rather than scraping across it like I’d imagine a traditional record player would.
a traditional record player moves the needle throught he groove by spinning the record, the way the media was designed to be played. this product is driving on top of your record, at the very least there is 4 wheels that don't need to be making contact
There's a basic design flaw in this. There's RPM, and there's "linear speed". Like your car, the RPM of your wheels, and the speed of the car. This record player will be slower on the outward tracks, and too fast in the inner tracks because the length of the inner tracks are much shorter, but the player will continue to run at the same "road speed" making it a much higher RPM. Sorry, I know I didn't write it very clearly.
He claims it's an alternative for people who can't afford record players, but I think he said that damn thing was $99. My first record player was a great Victorola for $40. Plus there's pretty much no point if you have to ruin the quality with Bluetooth
I thought the whole point of having vinyls is to either collect them or to also play them on a vintage record player to give you old school vibes. Why would anyone willingly choose shittier audio without getting anything in return instead of just getting a modern speaker
For people talking about the flaws in the product, you're missing the point. It's a new product that actually works. The first cell phones were crappy. The first home computers were crappy. The first TVs were crappy. Heck, even the first houses were crappy. The first of a kind of any product is normally pretty crappy, but if you got in on the ground floor when those things were invented, you would be wealthy. Even though, if it were me being asked to invest in this, the only thing I would want to make sure of is that the box is actually reading the record, and not just playing random music that's already stored in the box. I would have him test it with my vinyl first.
That black man is a genius! People may say he shouldn’t have sold all the rights to it ! But if you was a struggle innovator you would do the same cause there are more ideas to come smart black man
think about it, some people don't care about their collections getting destroyed. he knows someone will purchase this product/company that doesnt know anything about record player. He is smart!!!
It kinda just looks like he got the dude to do a public verbal agreement to work under him for two years for his personality alone. The product is the pits but the pitch was perfect. If you can sell dirt to a rich man, you can sell anything.
I would be like I'll just take the 500k. I don't need a job for the tow years. Because those would be the most awckward two years of my life knowing I ripped my boss off and now have to try sell this garbage.
I have Uranus watch, literally, the watch is radioactive, as much as I know Uranus is very expensive metal and the US cares so much about muclear proliferation, my watch can kill two cows with charge. What do you think, how much can I get for my watch, or should I go to the Iranians?!
That guy pushing this junk is a damn criminal for ripping them off, for damaging the fuck out of records, and everything his did here. TERRIBLE PRODUCT!
We get our own version of this in the UK, "Dragon's Den". In the American one, do the inventors always talk like infomercial presenters? And do the "sharks" pretend to be impressed in such an over-theatrical way? Could it be they're all salivating over it as a sales measure, to make sure the public think it's impressive? Like they decided before filming what they were going to do (and prob negotiated the contract too), then the bad acting comes along to promote it? As it is, reviews online call this the "vinyl destroyer", it causes scratches and sounds like shit. And costs $60. Why are they so impressed at sending music over Bluetooth? This has been possible for more than 10 years. When you call their mobile phone, do they spend the first 5 minutes marvelling at "human voice... from the air!" before they start the conversation? When they're finished on the toilet do they wonder agasp where the shit goes? It's not just fake, it's a shitty fake. I suppose these products are aimed at the lower half of the IQ spectrum, and the show is just an infomercial. The UK version isn't quite so bad as that.
greenaum The Sharks are often not so impressed. They are often rude, blunt, and brutal and like to nitpick and tear down the presentations. For example they all passed on Doorbot (now known as Ring) the innovative WiFi enabled doorbell, intercom, security camera that casts to the resident’s phone after poking holes into the founder’s business model. Since being rejected Ring made hundreds of millions of dollars in revenue and sold last month to Amazon for $1 Billion. This was uncharacteristic for them to fall for this magic trick bait and switch.
This is the perfect ironic gift for your enemies. Voluntarily scratch their vinyls while casting terrible sound via Bluetooth.
hahahahaha best comment
@Chandan Bhatt, I see that pfp everywhere. What is it bro?
Yep, glad someone beat me to it.
@@Swashbuckler9x HAL 9000 from 2001: A Space Odyssey…
As a record collector I'd never allow this thing to touch a single album I own.
I find rare records just to use this on it
You would say that
Why would you even put that on a collectible record you must be gullible or a simpleton
Company is worth $5M today. So regardless of the reviews maybe, and this is just me, Robert knows how to make money. Lol
Very arbitrary valuation though. Anyone could develop a terrible product and decide to value the rights for five million, it doesn’t mean the company has made that much cash or could be sold for that much. It’s only worth 5m if someone decides to pay that for the company. Otherwise, it’s only worth what tiny profits it’s making each year
@@mrhaltonok it’s at 5mil because it averaged a million a year in revenue
@@trollscream8607 exactly. This inventor is filthy rich. Wish I thought of something so simple. I’d be retired at 27 lol
@@organicbadboyx3948 the idea is the easy part. product development, marketing & sales is the hard part. you can have the best idea in the world but with no team, no marketing and no produxt you won’t sver become rich
@@organicbadboyx3948 invest in crypto.
WHAT the hell was Robert thinking? Techmoan just reviewed it and his verdict is "The worst thing I've ever heard and it damages the record"
Mike Gervasi I saw that too, that thing is a piece of crap.. lol
To be fair techmoan did refuse a replacement when offered. It would have been to have him compare the company approved replacement with the old one to see if there's any difference.
J.J. Just listen to other rokblok video on UA-cam. They all sound the same.
As AvE says, "you can never trust what companies offer you". The replacement may be quite different from average consumer units.
Another review stated it's wonderful and an awesome thing to have just at $59 @ Walmart, it's pricey.
This is an audiophile heart attack
What's wrong with having standards?
Phillip Hatfield Did an audiophile break your heart.. Chill it was a simple comment to make people laugh
Robert is really just a lover of vinyl and is doing us all a service and trying to save everybody’s vinyl, that’s why he bought the company
🤣🤣
He pulled out of the deal. I dont know why people dont understand these deals go under further review and dont always close.
Well the company is now worth 5,000,000. So Robert made a profit already
@@zxcvasdrfqwer 500k + 24 months of whatever 6-digit salary + 5$ royalty.
On that scale, Robert just had a breakeven with 5M.
I love how the inventor only played them 10 seconds of music (which was merely just a beat), so they couldn't notice how horribly off the pitch is or hear the wow and flutter. I'm sure he was careful not to let them see all the scratches left on the record when he was done. Any UA-cam video of someone demo-ing this on a track with vocals will make you laugh.
The UK version of this show Dragon's Den would have destroyed him and I doubt he would have left with anything XD go watch some of their episodes they're ruthless and really push the pitchers to breaking point and find all the cracks in their product/business model.
There is a thing called "development" it might sounds worst now but after the guy have the company I'm sure they will provide it to be a better rokblok
Ry Le this gimmick has been around for decades. It used to be in the form of a car. Was a gimmick then is a gimmick now. Tried it and the only thing it does is destroy your record.
Kevin explains in a different video on how each pitch is like 2 hours long, the editing crew just shortens it for entertainment. They have to take long, in a business deal, you can't explain a whole company's numbers in like 5 minutes and decide if youre going to invest.
As if improvement over the years is impossible. 🤦🏿♀️
Thing sounds like crap. He'd be crazy not to take the money and run.
Crazy? no, it's called morals. Clearly you don't have any
Well it failed miserably so
@alysdexia Everything is subjective if you want to look at it that way.
@@doc.voltold4232 failed miserably? The guy said it won’t be something that takes off, and yet it’s still up and running. Imagine selling a couple hundred units a day, or something that is almost obsolete to the world we live in day. You’re just a hater like biscuits McGee , but all he gives people is dry ass cotton mouth lol
@@doomthejets6329 it's been two years. no fucking idea what you are talking about. who the fuck is McGee?
You can actually hear the motor when it starts up. That’s a problem when you have a quiet moments in a song. On top of all the other issues. Robert was right about one this this will be a slow burn when 3 years later I’m just now finding out about it
For real 😂
Notice how he only played a drum loop with no guitars, keyboards, etc. If they heard the pitched instruments he wouldn’t get any deals. He cheated his way through.
Why are people so salty about this? Wouldn't think company have the ability & time to improve the product? I guess the saltiness comes from the fact that as a current consumer you want 'quality' vs a half azzed music player
I mean It makes perfect sense to use music that would work best on your product for an investment pitch. I wouldn't call that cheating I would call that common sense.
that’s just common sense lol
Probably because they couldn't broadcast actual songs due to copyright
Thats because those people have more $$ than knowledge of how records work
I like how he said- Just put your hand over it, to stop it. As if it used cool new technology, instead of it just being him pushing the ‘antenna’ down!! 😂😂
Thought it was some sort of motion sensored shit in a moment.
The offer was so bizarre that I couldn't believe it. Robert also bought into the seat-belt interlock, an idea that came and went in 1974. From the reviews, the product RokBlok has low sound quality and isn't gentle to the records. Clearly, if you're an aficionado, you keep the records safely at home, with a recording of them on DVD or thumb-drive for travel.
Anybody here from TechMoan? It was a kickstarter product and the idea was taken well, however the product is horrible.
It ruins ever record it comes into contact with and it sounds like crap
ditto.
yup
Yep
Yep, I came to see which sucker bought the "abomination".
It's a copy of a classic record destroying toy from the 70's.
I like when Mark just cuts all bullshit and business and just says "if you don't say yes right now"
"world's first"
They had these in the 60s, my friend.
You didnt listen properly. He used the words Worlds first and wireless bluetooth in the same sentence. So yeah hes technically right but morally wrong.
@@funrun9324 he just said wireless.
LOL! I just seen this product on Pawn Stars. It’s a 1970’s Japanese product called the Sound Wagon! What a con artist lol but so are the sharks so who cares😂
@@wearewarriorseaglesjaguars6342 buddy I posted this over 3 years ago 😂 I forgot this video existed
@@adnamamedia The reason I came here is because I’m watching Pawn Stars and seen the original product.. so I remember seeing it on Shark Tank and him saying he created it and the sharks being AMAZED LOL!
This a great example for sell me a pen from the movie The Wolf of Wall Street.
Let’s take someone else’s idea and add Bluetooth and call it my own. What a joke. Terrible on your vinyl and not high fidelity capable by any means.
He didn't even add Bluetooth, the Record Runner already released one. Strangely in the same year the RokBlok Kickstarter was launched.
Yes its not perfect, but it can be upgraded and be improved. Yes it needs improvement, but it would be really decent with inexpensive upgrades
But who buys that in the first place. Everyone who's into vinyl these days prefers a record player above a crappy Bluetooth box.
Good point
These have been around since the mid 70's. They were a terrible idea then and a terrible idea now. Surely someone would have improved upon or upgraded the design by now? You can argue that the RokBlok did that, but I wouldn't say adding bluetooth is a drastic improvement on the overall concept. The mechanical design itself is flawed, as it seems impossible to use it without damaging your records and maintaing peoper speed. It's a pointless, flawed gimmick then and now. You can't upgrade or improve an idea that was shit to begin with.
@@TheKartoffel101 It’s worth 5 million, so I’d say a few people…
@@PRODKIGH it's an arbitrary evaluation. All inflated
No way in he!! anyone with a shred of self-respect would let one of those things destroy their vinyl.
he gets 5 bucks every time someone buys one of these and no one else gave him a deal
This is the EASIEST money I've ever seen someone make with a garbage product lmao. That dude is laughing all the way to the bank!
I mean regardless of the sound itself, the technology is amazing and it would definitely sell to a lot of old heads and people who collect vinyl just based on the fact that it’s a cool little gadget, great invention and an amazing deal
Nope no one who owns vinyls would get that thing. It ruins them.
@@speedlimitwilliamwatson9393 too bad people don’t understand how terrible this product is. It’s sort of an ok concept, but in reality it just doesn’t work.
how fast he took that deal makes things smell fishy this product might be a knock off
The point is that little carts driving around your record have been around since the 80s, back then they usually looked like VW trucks or the like. All of them, including this one, sound horribly warped and destroy your record permanently because their stylus weighs to much onto the platter. This particular one maxes out most stylus scales actually. Terrible Purchase
BenBenson what a phonie
Mark knew it was a knock off.....and was going to say something until he was interrupted.
BenBenson half half actually, but I gotta admit Techmoan destroyed this perfectly. There were other Videos before Techmoan who basically delivered the same info though.
This guy made the best deal of his lifetime with this bad product while Robert made the worst.
Crappy product but I think Robert knew it would make him money
There are a lot of negative comments and I saw the review from Techmoans. The thing is, all of that is correctable and Robert has a tech background. They both got awesome deals.
Oh?!? Is that why even today that nothing has changed in it besides the price being 60 bucks now. Way higher than it was 3 years ago. Also. It still messes up vinyls. You can hear the motor going when things go quiet on the record. As well as other bullshit that still happens on it. Just happy the man got his cash and ran with it
It’s still a terrible product
This is a phenomenal product. Vinyl sales have been and still are increasing.
It’s a terrible product. It’ll just ruin your records without giving much decent quality audio.
@@goo_90 the actual quality of the product is not what I’m referring to. I do a fair bit of music production and a ruining a vinyl sucks. I called it “phenomenal” because if done well, this product could likely sell like flapjacks.
I'm happy for the guy but I don't get it. Why are people still buying vanyl? And who carries vanyl records around with them to need a portable player?? It's all just so bizzare.
@@Nom1fan vinyl is brilliant. MP3 files are shit. No one is carrying vinyl records out of their house. No one likes the shitty Roccock device.
@@goo_90 How is it brilliant making mp3 files shit? Can you please elaborate? And if no one likes it how is it successful?
Half a million to sell it you can't beat that...
"Experts" this guy just bought a wooden vinyl killer.
He didn't even fix the fatal flaw with the original vw bus one in that this is driving the stylus straight into the record opposite of how the whole thing is designed to work
He stole that money! Robert was an idiot on this deal.
a true nigga to the end lol
I’m a record collector addict and this is the most ridiculous thing I’ve ever seen! I wouldn’t let touch one of my records!
Me neither
Whats wrong with it?
There's a sucker born every minute (or nearly two minutes, in this case) - this has to be one of the worst _things_ ever made. Period. The maker was so darn smart for taking that deal, because it's certainly more than he'll ever make on that garbage.
You meant to say every 30 seconds in this case.. you are not that smart are you?
We see a 1 minute and 57 second clip of their interaction - that's roughly 2 minutes. Even if the pitch itself is about 30 seconds of those 2 minutes, that was not the end of the interaction. I meant what I said and I said what I meant. It was already pretty presumptive to put words in my mouth like that, but you had to follow up with a personal dig too - nice!
@@jordana4936 why do people like you exist in these comment sections bruh
@@tonyawad8201 why do people like you exist, period?
Im gonna say YES to that right now while nodding his head NO ... 🤣
He chooses a specific beat so we can't hear sound distortion. What a scam.
500k plus a 6 figure contract so another 100k-300k probably within 2 years and $5 royalties. He’s gonna become a millionaire if he plays his cards right.
Rock block is said to be selling almost 200 units daily since the show this guy Is making 500$ per day on a bad day off royalty's alone
Yes Gary Crawford is right! This guy did not invent the concept the VW Soundwagon was made in the 70's he just added blue tooth tech to get it to play on a real stereo system. Either the company folded or the patent ran out but a brilliant move. No wonder he accepted the deal so fast. Oh and but the way Robert's pipe dream that he will invent more products, that's too funny.
See the original VW SoundWagonin the link below.
ua-cam.com/video/aIwkhBiROQ4/v-deo.html
Well that makes all the difference! Well worth $500,000 for the idea of adding BlueTooth to a vinyl killer.
I think this is a genius product unlike many in the comments. Robert is no dummy. The technology is there!! Of course they will tweak the bugs and kinks out but this will be a must have tool for vinyl enthusiasts around the world.
It's Vinyl killer. Products like these have existed for ages.
as of 2021 the value of RokBlok to parent company Pimk Donut is $5 million. worth it, even if its shite
The value of a company has little to do with its revenue if large capital investments needed to be made for manufacturing, office space, etc
He was like “no I want the guy”
Funny thing is shark pulled out of this deal off camera after more research. So he did not spend anything on this. Its just for the show
The best offer in shark tank history!
This inspired me that I can invent and sell basically anything thanks
I’m not a vinyl collector, so I ask genuinely, how would this destroy a vinyl? It moves with it, rather than scraping across it like I’d imagine a traditional record player would.
a traditional record player moves the needle throught he groove by spinning the record, the way the media was designed to be played. this product is driving on top of your record, at the very least there is 4 wheels that don't need to be making contact
Damn he even sounds like an apple commercial, his apple training paid off
worst purchase ever. It doesn't even work XD
Bose must be thinking….what? A downgraded version of our products
Why is it when I view this same video but from bing I get all this lag and “miscommunication” from the google server….
A rehash of a 1960s or 70s vw battery operated miniature van 'the sound wagon' that did the exact same minus Bluetooth and recharge.
There's a basic design flaw in this. There's RPM, and there's "linear speed". Like your car, the RPM of your wheels, and the speed of the car.
This record player will be slower on the outward tracks, and too fast in the inner tracks because the length of the inner tracks are much shorter, but the player will continue to run at the same "road speed" making it a much higher RPM.
Sorry, I know I didn't write it very clearly.
That's a very interesting and smart point. Apparently this has lots of other problems, but maybe they could program it to speed up as it goes.
He claims it's an alternative for people who can't afford record players, but I think he said that damn thing was $99. My first record player was a great Victorola for $40. Plus there's pretty much no point if you have to ruin the quality with Bluetooth
I thought the whole point of having vinyls is to either collect them or to also play them on a vintage record player to give you old school vibes. Why would anyone willingly choose shittier audio without getting anything in return instead of just getting a modern speaker
For people talking about the flaws in the product, you're missing the point. It's a new product that actually works. The first cell phones were crappy. The first home computers were crappy. The first TVs were crappy. Heck, even the first houses were crappy. The first of a kind of any product is normally pretty crappy, but if you got in on the ground floor when those things were invented, you would be wealthy.
Even though, if it were me being asked to invest in this, the only thing I would want to make sure of is that the box is actually reading the record, and not just playing random music that's already stored in the box. I would have him test it with my vinyl first.
so he just added bluetooth to an already existing invention?
Apple didn’t create the first smartphone either…
Dude played them well I respect the hustle easy half a mil
Not bad for a repackage of an old product.
Great job man hope your living it up Dude is literally making millions in his sleep now
Fast forward.. rock block has made 17 million dollars.
"if you don't say yes to that right now"
That black man is a genius! People may say he shouldn’t have sold all the rights to it ! But if you was a struggle innovator you would do the same cause there are more ideas to come smart black man
And that ladies and gentlemen is the American dream
I Get It Now, Why He Would Sell His Company. I Was Skeptical At First After Seeing A 30 Second Clip.
think about it, some people don't care about their collections getting destroyed. he knows someone will purchase this product/company that doesnt know anything about record player. He is smart!!!
I'm am still wondering in what context it is necessary to have a vinyl player that is smaller than a vinyl.
He really did the uno reverse trick
The YT reviews might make this product look like complete ass but apparently this is a $5 million dollar company as of 2022.
how did these old people not remember the lil bus record wreckers ?
Of course the shark thought of the risks. I'm pretty sure he shall rethink about the design
They don't sign the check and walk out the door. Both sides can pull out of the deal off-camera. It's possible that's what happened here
5$ in royalties for every unit sold is gonna be big for him
😂
robert sold this for 1.5 million dollars to an undisclosed buyer in Febuary 2018. Nice profit
Source?
Bro really said: wanna retire?
This was Roberts biggest fail ever in the whole show
How ??? Company is 10x bigger now lol
These existed in the 70s just without the Bluetooth
Took an already exiting product that didn’t work… rebranded it and sold it. Gotta hand it to him
Total piece of junk. What a foolish deal. This thing is pure garbage. It's not even a new concept... just a knockoff of a 30 year old product.
It kinda just looks like he got the dude to do a public verbal agreement to work under him for two years for his personality alone. The product is the pits but the pitch was perfect.
If you can sell dirt to a rich man, you can sell anything.
I would be like I'll just take the 500k. I don't need a job for the tow years. Because those would be the most awckward two years of my life knowing I ripped my boss off and now have to try sell this garbage.
This deal never closed
I think he bought it on Alibaba and brought it to shark tank and said here’s my idea 🤣
VINYL KILLER!!!
That was epic and well deserved that was talent acquisition at its finest
This fact that he said yes so fast to sell out 100% of his brand shows he is trying to get the deal off before people realise the cons .
The only thing that it shows is that 500,000 up front, two years job security, and royalties for the rest of your life, is a fucking INSANE deal
That was a great deal a job and royalty and 500k a win win wining they sell 10 million units the 50 million no strings attached
it's not a first, it's called a VW record runner and it's been in existence since the 60s.
Wow I’m half tempted to buy one earning him 5 bucks
RokBlok revenue 2021 is $5 millions
Funniest shit is people on here hating on the dude in the comments, like he’s the one who posted this video
What a great offer for something that won’t last long
Bruh good thing he sold that shit, it would destroy your records
How is this guy not in legal trouble? It is clearly a ripoff of the record runner.
Patent for the original record runner probably expired or his product was different enough that he could get away with it
These have been around so long. Since like the 70s.
i bet you this deal never closed in due dilligence ... just because of no patent ..
I have Uranus watch, literally, the watch is radioactive, as much as I know Uranus is very expensive metal and the US cares so much about muclear proliferation, my watch can kill two cows with charge. What do you think, how much can I get for my watch, or should I go to the Iranians?!
Notice how basic and frequency-free the sample was unlike Techmoan's thorough review(s)
Unfortunately you would have to have a record player for this.
That guy pushing this junk is a damn criminal for ripping them off, for damaging the fuck out of records, and everything his did here. TERRIBLE PRODUCT!
This isn't a new idea. These have existed for a long time.
We get our own version of this in the UK, "Dragon's Den". In the American one, do the inventors always talk like infomercial presenters? And do the "sharks" pretend to be impressed in such an over-theatrical way? Could it be they're all salivating over it as a sales measure, to make sure the public think it's impressive? Like they decided before filming what they were going to do (and prob negotiated the contract too), then the bad acting comes along to promote it?
As it is, reviews online call this the "vinyl destroyer", it causes scratches and sounds like shit. And costs $60.
Why are they so impressed at sending music over Bluetooth? This has been possible for more than 10 years. When you call their mobile phone, do they spend the first 5 minutes marvelling at "human voice... from the air!" before they start the conversation? When they're finished on the toilet do they wonder agasp where the shit goes?
It's not just fake, it's a shitty fake. I suppose these products are aimed at the lower half of the IQ spectrum, and the show is just an infomercial. The UK version isn't quite so bad as that.
greenaum The Sharks are often not so impressed. They are often rude, blunt, and brutal and like to nitpick and tear down the presentations. For example they all passed on Doorbot (now known as Ring) the innovative WiFi enabled doorbell, intercom, security camera that casts to the resident’s phone after poking holes into the founder’s business model. Since being rejected Ring made hundreds of millions of dollars in revenue and sold last month to Amazon for $1 Billion.
This was uncharacteristic for them to fall for this magic trick bait and switch.
I almost can’t believe it.
Outstanding move, but thats illegal
I think title is wrong. Which episode is it?