Re: Epiphone SG Prophecy
It is really easy to fake credentials for something that isn't something known as the best. I had a college professor one time relate a story of a fraudulent professor that made fake credentials for his position. One of the many things that were wrong with the credentials was having been second in his class at one of the Ivy Leagues. He skated on by through a few years of lecturing as a fraudulent professor. Eventually he got caught after people started to notice that his credentials kept getting padded on his webpage with increasingly more phony claims. See eventually people were able to look into his claims because he was making claims that people could research and prove him wrong.
The point of this story is that it is entirely reasonable to assume that someone would make fake epiphones. People that buy epiphones, for the most part, know that they are not getting a prestigious instrument. Even if the instrument were of a lower quality, people would simply write it off as a cheap imitation of a Gibson, which is the way many regard epiphone already. Faking an epiphone is a lot easier to get away with. Honestly, before this thread I have never heard of anyone running a serial number on an epiphone. For good reason too: Serious guitarists generally disregard the foreign made subsidiary companies like epiphone and squier, and the rest of the people who buy those instruments dont tend to know what they are getting anyways, just that they aren't getting the expensive brand name guitars.
Going back to the story of the fraudulent professor: what he did at first was fake an epiphone. Nobody noticed. Then he took the same product and metaphorically put a Gibson logo on it. People are a bit more used to spotting fake Gibson's, so someone ran his serial number. When he did this, he got popped for it. Thats the way i see it anyways.
Besides, if the prophecy is a fake and crossbow likes it anyways, I dont think it matters all that much if it is real or fake.
