SHOULD I BUY IT?

If you're not going to play it, leave it. I don't think you'll make that much money from it on a quick flip.

 

If you want to learn guitar, or think you might in the future, go for it, it's not really going to hurt. That's a decent price I think, and who knows, maybe your guitarist can use it if you don't?

 

Don't buy it if you won't play it, the flip won't bring you enough cash to constitute doing that.

 

A few things...'cause I have a great MIJ Strat:
1. Get a friend who plays guitar and actually knows his "stuff" to take a look/play it and give you an opinion.
2. If it is light in weight and basically plays and sounds good, that's a good price.
3. If you buy it and want to keep it as a "tone machine" (because you want a good guitar and it passes your friend's test), google Griblin Engineering in San Rafael, CA and buy their complete harness with Lindy Fralin pups. That'l run you about $250, but will turn a fundamentally decent strat into a tone monster that you'll love forever.
4. Keep in mind, this is not an investment, it's a low cost, yet great sounding and playing guitar...just for you.

I love upgraded, awesome sounding cheap Strats!!!

 

Is it a Standard or a Classic series model? If it's a Classic I really think you should buy it. The classic series are great guitars of very high quality

 

For $100 I'd buy it.

 

The classic looks more like a vintage model. The easiest way to figure out if it's a standard or classic is probably to look on the Fender logo. The classic has a vintage style "spaghetti" logo, while the standard has a bigger silver Fender logo. Do a search on google and compare.

Standard:

Classic:

 

I did the same thing about two years ago. Came across a decent Mexican Strat at a garage sale (of all places). Called a guitarist who knew his stuff and we ended up having a friendly arguement over who was going to buy it. (I won).

It's been great to just pick up every once in a while and have a play.

I call it my very short scale, six string "alto" bass.

 

Yes, yes you should buy it.

 

i would just call it my guitar. but whatever floats your boat...

to the op.

You should buy it, $150 is not very much money at all (£75 - you'd be lucky to find a second hand squier for that in the UK), and as has been said earlier, it never hurts to have an extra guitar lying around!

 

I say buy it!

And by the way this is my first ever post on Talk Bass.

 

If you don't use it, I am sure you can sell it in a sec for about at least what you paid for it.



D.Don

 

Good choice, never hurts to have a guitar lying around.