Chances are, there is no way in hell they are going to take a straight up trade for anything. They won't give you what you paid for your guitar in trade value. The most you will probably be able to get out of them is probably 200 or so. It all depends on the owner/salesperson that you're dealing with. But most of the time if you want to buy a 400 dollar guitar and you have a 400 dollar guitar to trade... they're going to take your 400 dollar guitar... then make you pay 200 dollars for the new guitar... It's pretty similar to the value of cars. Unless you're buying a collectors item, the guitar instantly drops in value once it leaves the store.

Schecter is a seperately operated division of ESP so the quality of the guitars are very similar. I just can't imagine myself ever playing a leopard print guitar.......... haha.