Fake Gibson Les Paul *BEWARE* 120024359097

report the b**tard to Ebay. they will remove the auction.

I hate seeing this Gibson should not be copied. Why not just call it something else? It looks great nice axe call it something else please!!

A Gibson is a Gibson and they are not made in China and they don't cost 150.00.
Jeesh!

Actually, he bought the pair for 150 GBP, thats British pounds. At todays exchange rate, thats $283.60 + shipping from China for both of them. Then he wants $1000 for a piece of cardboard?

He's no longer a registered use

Score one for the good guys.

Here was this characters response to my email just after he made his feedback private.

Hi, Sorry you didnt look at the auction very good. I have not misled anyone. This Guitar is made overseas by Gibson/Epiphone. This is a very nice guitar I have owned over 10 Gibson USA Guitars the only difference I see on this one is the Truss rodd cover has 2 screws at the bottom. This Guitar Plays and sounds as good. Nice Action Actually better than some of the Gibsons I have owned. Gibson are not worth the 3000.00 4000.00 or more. They are a piece of wood. There is nothing to making a guitar with the same quality. I can spray paint a guitar and have it look better than most of the high dollar gibson guitars I have bought. I prefer Jackson or Ibanez Vai guitars anyday. Better quality. Take care. Have you thought of angermanagement? Jesus is Lord. The only way to God,The onlyway out of Hell. God Bless!

Nope, wait, wrong guy. The Chinese counterfeiter is no longer a reg user, the reseller is still active.

Someone should report all these chode-monkeys.

I am about to release a web page hopefully soon on these so called pirated Gibson guitars. I had purchased one of these as i wanted to see just what i got for the money. I have since repaired a number of faults within the guitar and one major fault.
I must say that the seller i purchased my model from was very up front and very pleasent. The picture i saw of this guitar caught my eye immediately, however the price they were asking for it was just out of this world. I took a chance and believed i would never see my money or the guitar, or that it would arrive damaged. Well 2 weeks later i received the guitar once i unpacked the guitar at first glance she was an absolute gem. The paintwork as well as the finish was glorious.The hardware was gold and the body was white. It played like a sack of crap. A number of strings had been put on the wrong posts, The action was terrible, but this was quickly sorted out.I then found problems with the pick ups, I took it for a good work out last week and could not play it as the feedback was terrible. I decided to order two brand new pick ups and fitted them. I have restrung the guitar gave a little more height to the the strings away from the fretboard. I have now one heck of a guitar and she really rips. To be quite honest i would buy another one as i am able to repair them easy enough. However i would stress to any potential buyer be very wary, Unless you can sort any problems that the guitar turns up with don't bother. Go buy your self an Epiphone from a trustworthy dealer. The guitar i purchased i worked out the stamped license number on the back of the headstock which gave me the year it was manufactured as 1996? Impossible as soon as i opened the box on delivery it stunk of laquer and paint hardly been lying around for 10 years! Also the pick ups have stamped on the rear GIBSON USA one of the pick ups are crudely stamped as though some mistake in writing had happened and they had tried to overwrite it causing a mess. Anyway

who is the loser that has nothing better to do than report les paul gibson copies, the guitars are listed as copies by the honest sellers, ive personally bought two of them knowing they were copies and they are great i would like to buy a third, but some moron that probably spent 3,000dollars on a real gibson who doesnt have the know how to utilize the quality has an issue with people that have more brains than money, keeps on reporting the sellers and getting the listings removed ive bid on three in the past week but this jerk keeps getting the listings removed!
thanks a$$hole i would really like another affordable quality guitar.

I agree I would like to buy more of them because they are good guitars. I guess the slight problem is they are illegal. I don't report some chinese guy selling them for cheap but I do report anyone selling on for 2000 bucks and acting like they are real Gibsons. I saw one ad where this guy said he bought it for his son in Iraq and now he was not coming home and needed to sell it (for about 2,000$). It was an obvious Chinese copy. Talk about a ripoff and misusing patriatism WOW

I too was curious about these les paul copies, and did a little research before I bought one. It seems they are made in the new Epiphone plant in China. The guy on Ebay I got it from kind of tricked me into believing he had a bunch of them and was really taking orders and money to buy them himself. Well after I sent my instant payment, and waited for a couple of weeks, he finally admitted that the guitars were on the way to him and would get it out to me as soon as he got them. It took about a month for me to finally receive the guitar, (and I got him to throw in a real Gibson hard shell case for my inconveiniance). When the guitar arrived I was very impressed by the appearance, it had a beatifull flamey sunburst top (probably photo finish, but very nice). The Gibson logo on the headstock was a little out of place and read GibsUn with a very open O that looked like a U. It played horrible and sounded thin and screechy. The guitar needed a good fret leveling and fret dress and polish, And some quality electronics. So now (still having under $600.00 total invesment, with a case and shipping and all the repairs), It is a very good guitar that I dont have to worry too much about getting hurt or stolen. Now I can keep the real ones at home.

The old saying "you get what you pay for" is true boys. These guitars are so obviously fake looking it's ridiculous. I'm sorry, but if you get burned by one- you kind of deserve it. Even Gibson players with just a little bit of knowledge will see the headstock has a wierd square shape, the pickups rings are bigger than Gibson, it has obvious cheap import looking hardware, and just an overall cheap look. I have a pretty good size vintage Les Paul collection and I'll be the first to admit that new Les Pauls are not worth the price anymore. But don't kid yourself, you're not going to buy a 3000.00 Zak Wylde or a 2800.00 Joe Perry Boneyard Les Paul for 150.00. A good friend of mine who works at Guitar Center took one of these pieces of crap in on a trade ( for 1200.00- but that's another rant. For all you guys saying you can upgrade the hardware/electronics have got to be crazy. YOU CAN'T POLISH A TURD! This "guitar was such a piece of junk it was laughable. My friend is a nice guy with a lot of experience- how he thought this thing was a real Gibson was embarassing. It weighed about 6.5 pounds,the body was 1/2" thinner than a real Gibson, had knockoff grover tuners, plastic inlays, crappy slammed in frets that were already lifting up. All I'm saying is do your homework. If it looks too good to be true, pass. I've emailed several US sellers of these things. 1 or 2 said they didn't know much about guitars, but most argued that they were real. It's always fun to watch the much deserved negative feedback appear on their account 10 days later when the unsuspecting buyer gets a 1600.00 piece of garbage. Good luck.

I bought one of these off a friend. Maybe there are many different counterfitters out there. This is a Gibsun Supreme fake. But it is excellent. The supreme is chambered and lighter than your average LP but this thing weighs a ton and is about the heaviest guitar I have ever picked up. The fretwork is good and the intonation is good. She stays in tune. The inlay looks impeccable, the binding very nice. Everything on the guitar is nice. All the gold hardware looks good. The action is better than my 1976 ES 335, better actually than just about any guitar I have ever owned. I have been playing guitar for 43 years and this guitar looks and feels great. Now, when it comes to plugging it in, that is another story. The pickups will definitely need replacing, they don't have the gain, and screech on higher tone and volume settings. After I replace the fake pups and the fake grover tuners I do believe she will be a very good guitar unless she just starts falling apart prematurely. Only time will tell, but from the looks and weight of her that may not happen. As mentioned above in another post, I will leave the 335 home from now on and take the fake.

P.S. I was able to see and play this guitar before I bought it so there was no scam involved and I knew what I was getting.

Everything is made in China...Marked USA when it enters the country..Deal with it. This country of our is in DEEP trouble with the Chinese. We owe them billions and billions of dollars. Soo to knock them is absurd. If they wanted too they could say you know what USA, We want our money. Guess what would happen then? You all including myself would be their bitch ;) Gibson guitars suck anyway!!!

i personally report every fake gibson/epiphone i see, where they pretend they are original.
there are people selling fakes, that tell you that they are not real. no problem there, at least they are honest. i have seen a few of these, and to honest, they are not bad.
however you must remember that the one's who state they are genuine, are thieves.
people do not deserve to be ripped off. they are using a well known brand name to get more money for second rate equipment.
i have both real and fake Gibsons. when it comes down to it, i prefer the Epiphone. just as good a quality, but a third of the price because of two humbuckers that cost £100.
selling a fake Gibson worth $100, for a grand is not on.

look at the gibsons on www.store128.com. tell me it doesnt amuse you

Have purchased about 15 of these I have found that the sellers are honest and the workmenship is really good concidering the price. I sold several to a drug dealer in south texas how had no clue what they were and made a ment from this a hole who deserved to be ripped off. I still have both real and fakes and to be honest I'd take the fakes out and play them more than I do my real ones because I'm not scared of scratching or digging one up.. To bad these assholes on ebay that take themselves so seriously about this issure have screwed up a good thing for a bunch of us. I have never tryed to sell one on ebay because of what they are but for the guy I sold them to he deserved to be ripped off. I have given these as gifts to friends that know the difference and they too wish they could buy some more.

I bought one a couple of months ago. Took a week to get here from China, Changed the PUP's to GFS, lowered the action and changed the strings. This guitar screams now. Plays nice and looks beautiful! Not bad for a total of about $350.

My 2 cents... I've been playing guitars and gigging since I was a kid in the early 1970s. As soon as I could afford one, I got a used Fender Stratocaster, then later a used SG, then a used Gibson Les Paul. All these guitars were from the 1960s or very early 1970s. Since then, I've bought and sold (and played) many Gibsons, Fenders, Squiers, Epiphones, etc. My experience is that there is no substiitute for the real thing IF you are a serious musician who'll play a lot. In that case, don't sell yourself short. Get a real Gibson or Fender and make sure it's a good one that can be set up properly. Yes, even USA made Fenders and Gibsons can be less than great, so select wisely. If you are a serious musician who'll perform or record a lot, the investment will be worth it to get a genuine Gibson or Fender. If you're just an occassional player who doesn't gig much, or at all, there's nothing wrong with a good Epiphone or Squier, BUT, make sure they are the early ones made in Japan or Korea, because the later ones are just not very good. I appreceiate that mass production using cheap foreign labor in Indonesia or China can put a guitar into just about every human's hands on the planet for about $100, and more guitars and less guns, I'm in favor of! But, cheap chinese made Gibson copies are never going to be great guitars. If it's for show, then go ahead and soup one up and use it. But, know this, the wood is significantly inferior. For instance, the "mahogany" wood used to mass produce cheap guitars in China is just about exclusively now, "Asian Mahogany." It and other such asian woods used in their guitars is no where near the quality of South American, or even the older Indian woods used by USA Gibson. And, the very basis of the guitar tone is the wood itself, followed closely by the electronics. So, bottom line, these guitars are all show, IMHO. For serious musicians, they do not stack up to the real thing due to serious deficiencies in wood and electroni

I have a counterfeit PRS McCarthy and had a counterfeit Les Paul custom which I sold for what I paid, they knew it was fake and were still happy to get it. The LP was fine, the neck was thin for a Paul but I liked it. Aside from the headstock the only real aesthetic flaw was that it said Standard instead of custom. I actually paid like $50 for the guitar then like $300 for the shipping, a lot of the auctions were set up like this. It was a good guitar. Definately not as good a real Custom but it played better than the epiphones in its price range and definately better than the $800 Les Paul studios and faded series guitars I've played.
My fake PRS is the shit. It has a blue flame top, gold hardware and bird inlays. The fake grovers stay in tune better than the stock tuners on my gibson v. Its serioulsy a good guitar. And it cost under $300. Shippining and all! Now is it as good as a real one? Hell no! But, it is just as good as any of the SE models with the bolt on necks that go for 100's more.
So, no they are not as good as the real things. And anyone who tries to pass them off as real is a crook. But don't knock em before you try em. I'd rather have a straight counterfeit than a copy that doesn't even get the shape right like a Dean Evo or a Jay Turser or something. I'd rather have my fake PRS than an $800 schecter c1.
and if anyone doesn't believe cheap guitars can sound good I would strongly suggest checking out agile guitars. they can go toe to toe with gibsons at less than epiphone prices.

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