What's up guys it's Cody here and today in this video
We're gonna be talking about Kanoa earbuds, so if you haven't seen my review of the Kanoa earbuds. I definitely recommend checking it out
It's a twenty seven minute long video which I know is insanely long
You can just watch like the last five minutes of it if you want to kind of summarizes everything up
But in a nutshell if you don't want to watch that
Kanoa reached out to me
They said "Hey we have some earbuds we would like you to review them" they send them to me
Every single feature that I tried to use none of it works
They suck. They were terrible and they were $300 so I continued to go back and forth between the company telling them
Hey, this doesn't work. This doesn't work. This doesn't work. This doesn't work and then finally
I told them hey I'm gonna go ahead and do the review and they reach back out to me telling me
Hey, We would like this mention in the video this mentioned in the video basically saying all these cool and awesome things these earbuds can do
Which they couldn't do any of them and then at the end of that email,
He offered me $500 in order to put out a good video
I'm like you want to pay me $500 in order to put out a good review of headphones that I've told you
Consistently do not work on a regular basis. It's not like these don't work sometimes
It's they don't ever work they never worked
There's no way they're terrible so I put out a 27 minute review telling how terrible they were and how
the company bribed me.
so that's where that video ended and this is where this video begins
Because I wasn't able to get into the aftermath. I never talked about you know like what happened or anything and
There's a lot of questions that a lot of Kanoa customers as well as you know just interested parties want to know about
my experience as well as you know what happened after all this and what was my reaction once the company actually shut down
So yeah shortly after of my video
I think it was either three or four days later the company just dissipated
It was completely gone. So the first thing that I noticed was a youtube comment
Saying that Kanoa's website had shut down. So I go to the website
And it's this long John Deere letter basically saying "due to some bad publicity-"
Which was me.
reviewing non shippable beta units"
Are you kidding me non shippable beta units he was already told me I have emails
Of him saying I sent these out and the people are really quiet
They haven't said anything about any type of issues that they had so for a fact
They said that they were shipping these and I have emails showing that but I'll link the page in the description you guys can check
it out for yourself, and that's when I started to look at their Facebook page shut down that's when I looked at their Twitter
completely gone the account was deleted. I checked their subreddit. It was locked. You couldn't even get into it
They completely were gone. They were gone. They shut down. They left their letter and they said sorry
We're sorry that we took all your money. We tried to put out headphones
We tried our best and we want to thank our backers for helping us out. Now
That's where a lot of people got pretty pissed off because a lot of people weren't "backers"
They were "consumers"
They were selling the earbuds on the website people were buying a finished product
They weren't investing in the company of Kanoa
That's where things are really really shady because it wasn't hey you give me you know one hundred and seventy nine dollars
And we might get you a product to you at some point
Maybe I don't know probably never now one thing that I did find out is that I thought this all started like a year ago
Little did I know it actually started over two years ago people started giving Kanoa money for these headphones
two years ago
And they just continued to delay and delay and delay and then after the review
They completely shut down. So what happened after the video. Well the first thing that happened is. I got a call now
Let me let me disclose who I was actually talking to I was talking to the CEO Saval see-vall
However you say his name
I think he said his name was see-val
And that's who I was talking to the entire time and after I published the video
He actually gave me a call about 30 minutes later. I did not answer it um
Yeah, I didn't answer it my phone was actually on do not disturb
But I was not planning on answering that phone call anyway even though I did suspect that he was gonna
Give me a call at that point. I was basically done with him. I was like
I'm not dealing with you anymore if you want to offer me
You know money in order to lie to all of you guys, then I'm just not going to do it
And I'm gonna put out this terrible review
And I'm gonna expose you and I just didn't expect it to be on a scale like
It has been so we got put on reddit, and then reddit took it
And you know it did really well on reddit, and then some other websites actually picked it up
And it's garnished a lot of attention
But when I put the video out I actually felt pretty bad about it the entire time
It was kind of like you know I mean I even mentioned in the video
I say I don't want to you know do something so harmful that it shuts down the company
But then once I found out all the people that they screwed over
I was glad that I was able to you know put that review out
Expose Kanoa for who they were and show everybody that this product that people have been buying
for the past two years
Just it doesn't work
So I told Twitter that I was going to do a follow-up to the Kanoa video if you guys had any questions
I'd be happy to answer him so I'll read some of those now
Did you get contacted by Kanoa after the review was posted? Uh, yes
They tried to contact me they tried to call me 30 minutes after the video was posted
I didn't answer it and then I've had no further contact with him whatsoever. I haven't reached out. They haven't reached out
That's fine with me. What'd they think of your review? Did they ask for another phone call and blame the problems on you?
Well they probably thought the review was terrible
I couldn't even imagine what that phone call would have been like if I did answer it, and I'm kind of a
Sad that I didn't answer it just because I would love to know what he was going to say on that phone
Call but no I didn't answer it. You know I'll just have to live with that regret I guess
How often do you get to shmoozy "write a good review" bs?
Not very often at all especially on a product that doesn't work, like that's never happened
That was the first time that that's happened, and I tell people straight up
You know this is gonna be an honest review
So if you guys are familiar with the Rocketskates video that I did that was another terrible review that I told everybody not to buy
That had a little bit of backlash too but you know, what are you going to do?
I'm not gonna tell people to buy stuff. That sucks if you guys want to check out the Rocketskates review. It's pretty funny
I'll put it in the description as well. Any backlash from the original video about them?
A little bit, but not too much
I think
Over 95% of the people were happy that I outed them for the product that they had and how terrible it was
There were a few people that were pissed off because they wanted
Something for their money, and they felt like it was my fault that they didn't get these terrible
Non-working headphones and their argument was I'd rather have terrible headphones for my hundred and seventy nine dollars
Than no headphones at all. I agree with that wholeheartedly
But at the same time you can't blame me because they have terrible ear buds. That's not my fault
I did everything that I possibly could. I even told them at one point, "Hey if you want to send me a new unit
if you think this one's defective I'd be happy to review it I would hold off on my review" and
They told me that the review unit that I had was you know it was the best that there was I can't what am I
what am I gonna do with that? I'm gonna
Tell everybody that you don't buy these because they're three hundred dollars, and they don't work
That's pretty cut-and-dry at that point. How savage do you feel that you single-handedly ruined the company?
I think they they didn't do what they said they were gonna
do I think they probably jacked around for two years and they weren't working hard on getting these headphones out they either set a
Ridiculous deadline that they surpassed by two years then came out with an inferior product
that just didn't work or they planned on doing this the whole time and then thought that they could take advantage of some youtubers and
Tried to pay them in order to put out a good review
But no. I don't feel like I single-handedly did it. I think I was just the last straw that did it. Alexander asked,
"Why were you wearing a Kanoa shirt in your last video?"
It's because like I said in the video. They make they made a great shirt the solid shirt, fits well. I like the material
I'm gonna wear it if you're looking to get a refund and it's gonna depend on your bank
You can reach out to your credit card company and tell them, "Hey this was a false charge
I never got my product" and what they do is they basically
Refund that money to you, and then they go try to get the money from that particular company unfortunately
There's no one to contact at Kanoa so you're not gonna get a refund through them
There's actually a class-action lawsuit to sue them. There's like a Facebook page and all this stuff
I have no idea what's going to come of that
But I'll link it in the description if you guys want to check that out as well
but I just wanted to do a quick follow-up video because I
A lot of you guys had a lot of questions about this
And I kind of wanted to give you you know a full answer
But if you have any other questions feel free to let me know in the comments below
I'll answer the ones that I see I'm not hiding anything so that's all I got for this video
I hope you guys enjoyed it if
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