I have bought two epiphone guitars which are factory second guitars . factory second guitars are guitars with some paint mistakes in the paint or binding and these mistakes are not noticable sellers sometimes sell these at a lower price because of these Mistakes I bought a 3 pick up paul black beauty with a mistake in the clear coat this item was  listed as a Guitar second with slight paint flaw which did not affect the playabiltiy , SO I bid on the Guitar won the bid and waited for delivery , So the Guitar came it was a very nice epi custom I had to look really hard to find the flaw the only way to see the flaw was to hold it up to a certain angle and look two inches at the the corner of the Guitar ,  So time to tune up and some minor adjustments ,  I pluged in and was suprised my factory second sounded very good I have a tokai guitar Made in korea and . This Factory chinese made  epi custom second sounded as good as my tokai . and the epi is a solid heavy les pual guitar . My experiance buying  my first factory second went well I saved around a 150 dollars not that much but still a good deal for epi les paul model . I am going to buy ace model factory second from the same seller . factory seconds are some times good deals but buy from a seller who accepts returns on Guitars because some factory seconds are Gems and some are lemons.