Thanks for verifying for me. I really appreciate all of you guys help.I sure hope I can get my money back or at least swap a new genuine fender. I really hate these china people making fakes although I am a chinese myself. =.=" Well, looks like I have to stick with it until I can buy another guitar. So many sad news in one day. *sigh* But the sad thing is how am I gonna proof it? anybody knows how to deal with these kind of situation?

Contact Fender Customer Relations and show them the pictures and serial number and when you get their response take it to the seller. He can't deny that kind of proof.

Here is a link to customer relations. Good luck!!
http://www.fender.com/support/consumer_relations.php

Ok thanks all. Wish me luck.

I listed the link to customer relation in the post above your last one. Good luck!!

Oh btw if I bought the guitar for over a year now, would i still be able to confront the shop owner? Lol, sry if its a stupid question.

If he doesnt give you a refound or a VERY GOOD ANSWER you should put in this forum the address and name off that person or shop , he deserves that.

Well what shop did you buy it from anyway emolypse?
wasn't the one in Sungai Wang in KL was it?
let us know the result

The shop is in Johor Bahru, around Taman Sentosa. Unfortunately, my uncle ask me not to confront him because the shop owner is a gangster. *sigh* =.=, Looks like I have to live with this "Fender". Now whenever I see my electric it makes me sad. Yesterday, I contacted customer relation, they say the serial number I gave did not come up in their database. So, it's confirm fake.

This is a real one notice how on yours that back is all black?
http://cgi.ebay.com/2008-Fender-America ... 43424567QQ

Notice real ones come with real Fender SKB cases. The latest ones have big plastic latches. No case and its not a Standard model or above that is for sure.

Any Fender retailer should be able to pick these things a mile away.

You can contact Fender US customer relations and get them to provide information on that serial number you have. Get them to identify your guitar by serial.

Telephone: (480) 596-7195
Fax: (480) 367-5262
E-mail: consumerrelations@fender.com

Be vary wary when you take it back that you have everything you need as proof and take several friends/adults/police because if they are selling fakes they aren't going to be happy when you show back wanting your money.

Consumer relation says that Fender cannot be involved in private sales transaction and they say they Serial Number I gave them did not come up in their system. So what's next? TT

You get to increase your "wise" score.

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Laughing out loud with fear and hope, I have a desperate plan ...

Well you've either got to confront the guy, go to the police or trading standards authority, or alternatively forget about it and take it as an expensive lesson in guitar buying.

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No no and no

the cops wont do anything, not worth their time and there arent any real "trading authorities." i think it'll just have to be a lesson learned

Don't get yourself in too much trouble. politely tell the guy the story and show him the proof, if he is a so called gangster why should he care about it...he plays gangster not guitar.......he should give you another guitar of your choice in the price range you paid....don't expect your money back after a year, that won't happen, but be reasonable with him because you have had it for a year. As you are in Malaysia are you familiar with Kechara House and by any chance Tsem Tulku Rinpoche?

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Your Fender HSS Standard Stratocaster in Electron Blue was made at the Fender Ensenada Plant in Mexico in the Year: 2008.
Final Assembly Date: July 30th, 2008
Model Number: 013 4700 587
Serial # MZ8031252

If you could show a few picts of under the hood (removing the pickguard) and show the wiring. I could tell you in a heart beat if this is fake. The details hidden in the wiring are often really cheap in the fakes. But as some people pointed out, 90% sure this a NOT a USA Strat. I would say Chinese copy...and they are doing a lot of supposed "USA" guitars.....

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