I'm a bit far from a Guitar Center to pop in & check their floor stock again, so if someone has bought a recent (fabrique en Chine) Dot, please set my mind at ease that they have not st00ged me again. Something important to note is that there is a serial number on the guitar - on a sticker inside the top F-hole.
Has this changed recently? I have looked at many eBay posts of Dots (had this GAS for a while, Beano did nothing), and if the headstock rear is shown, I have always seen either: Now, #3 again has no serial number on the back of the headstock.
I got Epi #3 today - it is definitely the best example so far (they promised me a quality check before shipping, and said there was a new shipment from Epiphone). The second one also went back due to binding flaws, plus it had something else in common with the first - no serial number on the back of the headstock. Serial numbersfrom 70' and 80's era Epiphone guitars made in Japan are not supported.
Vintage numbers from 1932 to 1970 are supported. I decided the first one was a B-stock/2nd because the fretboard was as dry as the outback, and had weird grain to boot, and there were some visible flaws with the binding. The Epiphone serial number decoder currently supports 12 serial number formatsfrom 25 factories. I recently decided to pass my GAS and get myself an Epiphone Dot using the Music 123 GEARUP/F_KUP.
