It sucks when stuff like that happens.

I saw a tasty sparkle Stratocaster at a trade show. The Fender rep said that they were only making 50 of them, one for each Mars Music shop in the nation (50 Strats/50 Teles for a total of 100).

The next day I went to my local Mars and paid for the one they were getting in stock.

5 months latter, I hear that the guitars have been released to the stores.

I take my receipt to Mars, and they say they already sold mine, 2 weeks ago.

The manager scrambles to call every other Mars in the surrounding states, everyone is sold out.

He tells me he will give me any guitar in the store at cost.

I tell him I already have 100 guitars, I wanted THAT guitar.

He gave me a refund.
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No one can truly guarantee you anything.

CPR could have a flood/fire and lose 3/4 of the run, with no more inserts available to start over.

Some goofball Mars employee could sell my guitar, that I already paid $1500 for, with no more to ever be made.

If you think about it, no one can ever guarantee you anything...
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They look really nice, but I only collect American & Turkish guitars.

Lol, I saw the sharktoothy inlays and thought it was Ibanez

Exactly.

Here is a genuine Williams NOS F14 playfield that I did a few months back.

Note how many corrections I had do before even the first coat of clear could be applied.

This would not even be a Bronze CPR, yet this was the best NOS Williams playfield I've ever seen.

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No matter what, people only hear what they want to hear; you can't explain it to them.

They will pull each word out of context to make sure that they heard that Stern "cheaped out" and saved $6 by not spending $12.

Stern has not posted a single word in this thread; anything they think they read about Stern is 100% hearsay.

$550 for a 1/2"x4'x8' sheet

You can get Ritchlite in just about any configuration; it's just paper and resin.

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