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ProfessorGAC

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1. Hmmmm

Reply to douglas9 (Original post)

Wed Nov 27, 2024, 08:23 AM

Nov 27

I'm not a Gibson guy, but I admit to wondering whether these knock-offs are worth having.
The Les Paul models I look at are $6,000-6,900. I wonder what the counterfeits were going for. The article doesn't say.
If these things were actually being sold as if they were real, that's a pretty huge fraud.
If they were going for $500, nobody was being defrauded because everyone knows you can't get a real Gibson for that kind of money.
I fear it's the former.

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