also check ebay. you can get some fantastic deals on there. I plan on getting a fender HM strat pretty soon. i played one at a pawn shop and was totally taken in by the sound and the playability but they wanted like 7 c-notes just because it had the name fender on the headstock. A fender hm will cost between 2-3 hundred used, can't by em new cause they don't make em any more. or just check ebay to now exactly how much a certain guitar your looking at goes for new and used. Cause it hurts when you get burned paying way more than you should have for an instrument, i'm talking from experience. ;) -jake