I have a Black Epiphone Dot. Its about 4 years old but is in EXCELLENT condition. I bought it for my son brand new for about $350, but he soon lost interest in guitar and gave it back to me. I did a little upgrading on it though. I swapped out the Epiphone pickups and put some Gibson humbuckers in there. I also installed a Bigsby on it, and changed the Pots to Gibson one's along with some black Gibson Speed Knobs. The tuners are the original Grover one's that work great. I also got a Gibson pick guard. A friend of mine buys and sells guitar parts, so that the only reason I got all of the Gibson parts. I got them really cheap, otherwise I wouldn't waste my time and money on an Epiphone. But anyway this guitar sound Great, you wouldn't even know it was a $350 guitar.