First PRS. Wanna know if real or not

[Makatiboy]

http://gyazo.com/82576134bd760cc2cb4ca4815cd9a578
selling on local Pawn for $1000. The tuner are not PRS, logo PRS the end of it is smith is missing letters and the electrical on it looks like not a PRS. I usually have ibanez and they use round Pot volume . If someone can help me with this. Buy or not. I have it on Lay Away . Plays good and sounds good.

 

[themike]

Fake - tuners, logo, headstock carve and truss rod cover are all wrong.

 

[drdoom8793]

Yeah, I'm no expert like some of the guys on here but that looks pretty fake to me.

 

[Makatiboy]

http://gyazo.com/fb1651f171ce318c87f29cd933646a33
http://gyazo.com/a069faa3abe5787181edcda8a7112cfc
http://gyazo.com/58022c8a2a6dfdf140532a73ee757dfa

 

[Bowtiefanatc]

Yikes! Yeah that's bad. Get your money back and tell them they got taken for a ride.

Why would a PRS have a wilkinson bridge too...prs trems are 6 point trems

 

[Makatiboy]

I add more picture. First time to do a post and need to sign up with upload pictures.

 

[Chitarrista scarso]

Definitely fake. Sorry mate, anyway welcome on the forum! :cheers:

 

[shinksma]

I too am no expert, but that looks fake to me. Every detail is wrong, wrong, wrong. Must be one of those Chinese knock-offs of one of those Chinese knock-offs...

 

[Makatiboy]

Thank you. I just put $20 to hold for me. It looks so real but with all the specs that's raise my worries. Thank you very much.

 

[DesolationBlvd]

The 24th fret owl is not even there.

Also of note - those double slug coil humbuckers are usually the mark of a cheapie.

 

[rocguitar]

Yep! It's a genuine Counterfeit.......and not a very good one! :iamconfused:

 

[AP515]

I'm so late to the party it's just piling on at this point, but...it's a fake!

 

[Chris528]

Only $20 to hold it should have been your first clue.

 

[Makatiboy]

Got the lay away money back. Time too look for other PRS for the Holliday

 

[Bowtiefanatc]

Pawn Shop finds do happen though, I picked this one up at a local pawn shop and it's my #1

 

[solacematt]

whoa holy good god, biggest giveaway is the knobs and trem. You could get a real one used from the dreaded GC for less then what you paid :/

 

[shinksma]

whoa holy good god, biggest giveaway is the knobs and trem. You could get a real one used from the dreaded GC for less then what you paid :/

Well, the good news he never bought the (obvious to us) fake guitar.

If you've never seen one in person, and simply aren't that familiar with the look and feel, I can see why some folks might get taken in by such subterfuge. I'm glad we stopped this from being bought by the OP, but eventually it will probably be bought by someone who will think it is a genuine PRS.

Makatiboy, is there any way you can report this fraud to someone useful? I assume you are in the Philippines, based on your user name. I have no idea whether this can be stopped before someone else gets taken...