$99 Epiphone Les Paul

What are the chances we will get value for money?

With the "you get what you paid for" logic, what will we get?

And why can they make a $99 guitar? Will the quality really be much lower? Can it?

buy one, report back

The why is because of international labor laws. They use the cheapest supplies possible and hire out people to work the machines in countries where the wages are already super low. They also strike contracts that say if those factories stay open for a certain number of years, they cna gaurantee an even lower wage.

Really, I think any Epiphone just about is going to make you regret buying, but any $100 guitar is going to be rough. Likely to have tuning problems, a bad tone that can't be dialed in, and parts that chip and peel.

as usual you're completely immune to sarcasm, either that or you replied to the wrong person

I've got that Epiphone Sheraton and it was super cheap-

The intonation, etc. was just shit but a solid set up got it in much better shape.

It's not a $99 guitar but it's not far off. Maybe $250-300? Can't remember but I know it was dead cheap.

Pickups are hardly nuanced but they've got it in the ballpark of what they're indending to do.

I'd love a 335 but I can't afford & this fills that spot until I can.

With just about all gear it's a weird dimishing returns thing as the price point rises.

The improvement from $100-$500 is huge comparatively, the improvement between $500 to say $1500 is great but less of a leap, then from there it's kinda single digit tone, etc. improvements % wise but HUGE price tag jumps at every step.

It's the whole "80%" or "90%" thing. Getting those last 10-20% are insanely expensive now.

It's like sound reinforcement. To get just 2db louder at a certain point requires double the amout of speakers. It all feels very non-linear in most of cases.

I actually would except a $99USD guitar is approx $300AUD and this defeats the purpose of the exercise.

I saw the same guitar being advertised for 99 pounds UK. which is not quite $99USD....

but this is one of those "this goes to 11" only with exchange rates

I think you need a re-evaluation of your valuation of this evaluation's devaluation.