Yeah, I imagine guitar center would probably know of any decent guitars in need of a new home, or at least be able to point me in the right direction on ebay/craigslist as opposed to just filtering out everything that's not top end, esp since it seems there's little tricks like fender's acoustics not being as good as their electrics (or just being a bought-name on some lines).
Thing with ebay is no matter what shipping seems about $30 so I think I'm better off instead of saying X much for a guitar and Y to account for shipping just spending Z total on a better guitar locally. [s]Especially when there's stuff ....[/s]
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Scratch that, found
this fender fat strat with a DP159 humbucker in it as well as a possible buyer for my miniature.