i like it when someone tells me the guitar they're selling is not to be confused with

[cutaway]

the lower, lesser quality model made by same company, looks the same, but IS MOST DECIDEDLY, NOT THE SAME!

[Brock]

Example please. A real example, not a cheaper version of it.

[Rock Johnson]

You mean like how you shouldn't mistake a masterbuilt for a MIM?

Look the same.. built by the same company... but MOST DECIDEDLY NOT THE SAME.

[devinb]

Funny, I didn't like it when a GC a few states away assured me that the small and grainy single picture on their website was of a G&L ASAT made in the USA, and not a Tribute model...they really did not know the difference, as it was priced more than a new Tribute, but eventually something clicked in my mind and the color of the string tree gave it away as what it was, and I canceled the order for it the day it was to be shipped.

[Guitar Josh]

This is the BEST MIM Fender Strat evar! I actually went to the Fender factor and played Masterbuilt strats built by Eric Clapton's personal luthier and they sounded like cardboard compared to this off the rack MIM model.

[Boris Bubbanov]

Hey, I thought I was getting a Squier.

Look, mister! You stuck me with one of these lousy Fender models.

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I played one of those incredible MIMs one time. I assumed it was the mushrooms in my dinner. By the time I got back over there to try it and buy it, someone recognized its value and it was gone.

[itkindaworks]

Like an epiphone by gibson vs. an epiphone without gibson on the truss cover?

[Copper_Head]

Originally Posted by Brock

Example please. A real example, not a cheaper version of it.

Gibson Hendrix tribute not to be confused with an actual Stratocaster.

[cutaway]

Originally Posted by Rock Johnson

You mean like how you shouldn't mistake a masterbuilt for a MIM?

Look the same.. built by the same company... but MOST DECIDEDLY NOT THE SAME.

no. nothing like that. in fact, i don't think i've ever seen that in a masterbuilt ad.

i'm mostly thinking of guitars that were once built in america or japan(even korea in the case of sheratons), but are now being built in china.

[Copper_Head]

Originally Posted by Brock

Example please. A real example, not a cheaper version of it.

OK, seriously:

"Wolfgang USA Standard, not to be confused with the cheap Korean "special" crap......"

[cutaway]

Originally Posted by Copper_Head

OK, seriously:

"Wolfgang USA Standard, not to be confused with the cheap Korean "special" crap......"

so the USA in the title might lead one to believe it's Korean?

IMO I wouldn't want to deal with a buyer this, um, challenged, especially if there are accompanying pictures

[Copper_Head]

Originally Posted by cutaway

so the USA in the title might lead one to believe it's Korean?

IMO I wouldn't want to deal with a buyer this, um, challenged, especially if there are accompanying pictures

I have seen a couple early custom shop quilt sellers be falsely attacked by ebay do-gooders accusing them of selling the imports as USA models....

[ScottB]

The Hamer USA line vs their cheaper lines would be a good example of where this distinction would be appropriate.