If the quality is good enough; see if they will give up a good enough deal.

I mean, to be honest; I could really care less about these things. There are millions of bootleg and counterfit products out there; from clothing, to car parts, to guitars. There are things counterfitted I think are far more worthy of being looked at; like prescription meds.

"let the buyer beware" things like this happen for 3 reasons; so people can make money, so normally intelligent people can get an expensive lesson for what's probably greed if its a deal thats too good to be true, and last but not least; to seperate a fool from his money. I think "most" people who by bunk guitars do so, because its really cheap, and though they probably have a bad feeling, and deep inside know its probably not what it appears, they buy it anyway. There's always the exception; the teenager that doesnt know any better, or the older person just starting to learn. I have sympathy for them, but the rest. Who cares?.

Fender make enough money, they dont need me taking up my personal time hunting down people selling fakes. Maybe if they charged a reasonable price for a guitar with no frills, and a bolt on neck; you know, like less than $1200, maybe there wouldnt be so much counterfiting.
I know people do it to vintage ones too, but if you're looking at dropping the type of money a vintage piece costs, and you didnt do your homework, shame on you. That's the expensive lesson I spoke of.

Plus, buying a vintage neck for a big price is kind of dumb. You'll just be mixing guitars, is going to kill any value anyway. A vintage amp, i can see, a complete, unmolested guitar, again i can see, but vintage pots, switches, Ive even seen "vintage strings", as in previously used. Its just dumb

1. Do your research (know the specs on your Fenders)
2. Know the market value of the item being sold
3. Wake the heck up, if the deal seems too good to be true . . . it is

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