Here’s an email from Francis;
So, here’s where my story started:
I want a Zakk Wylde Les Paul badly! Found this link on a national CL search.Turns out they’re a pawn shop NY. I’m in NC.Thought $2500 was a fair price - one just sold on eBay for $2250.Called the number. We agreed on $2150 including shipping, and he said we could use eBay and PayPal.That night, I stumbled across Fibsons, and noticed a Zakk Wylde section, and the large serial # of a fake one caught my eye. Funny. I thought it looked like the same serial # of the one I’m going to buy. I checked, it wasn’t, but I immediately realized mine looked almost identical to this fake one.Called the next morning, and instead of giving my credit card, I asked them to send me photos – especially of the headstock. (I’m attaching those photos in this email.)Here’s the email I sent them. Haven’t heard back.Thanks for saving me, Fibsons!!- Francis(PS – if my story makes your blog, please let me know – love to tell this pawn shop they’re famous)
Not sure about making the pawn shop famous Francis, infamous maybe. You are right, the guitar is a counterfeit and is still, (as of Boxing Day 2011) listed for sale at a Gibson price, they often sell for $300 new from the Chinese factories. Buyer beware.
There’s plenty of info on the counterfeit Gibson Zakk Wylde guitars, for a start they should have a three piece neck, which this copy does not.
