Buying Guitars Online?

[superpete]

I will add the one caution that you need to do a setup on the guitar after it arrives BEFORE you make a judgement on whether its good or not. I've had a couple arrive and kinda felt "meh" about them until I did a full setup and got it playing the way I like. THEN it was like, "wow, this is awesome!" You'd be surprised how just a 1/4 turn of the truss rod and setting the string radius and action can take a guitar from 6/10 to 10/10.

i worked in a guitar store for years, and played thousands of guitars out of the box. Certainly some guitars just had that magic/mojo we're all looking for, but i found the variances between certain guitar models to be negligible after a proper set up. sometimes "the good one" was just the one with better action/intonation straight from the factory.