Are you kidding me??? Squier for almost 500 DOLLARS!!!

[Not Steve]

[Spud1950]

There's something else wrong with that auction,beside the price. The Squier Pro tone came with three single coils. The Pro Tone "Fat Strat" was a special model, two single coils and a humbucker, Floyd Rose trem, and only came in black, with a matcing black headstock.

"Pro-Tone Series
The pro-tone series of stratocasters was produced between 1996 and 1998 and featured a solid ash body, a 1-piece maple neck, and three single-coil alnico pickups. The Pro-Tone line was manufactured in Korea (many in the Cort factory). It was available in a handful of finishes: vintage blonde, crimson red, black, three-tone sunburst, trans sapphire blue, and olympic white. The crimson red, and trans sapphire blue finishes came with gold hardware.

There was a special edition Pro-Tone called the 'Fat Strat' which came in black with a black painted headstock, 22 frets, a bridge humbucker, and a Floyd Rose double locking tremolo."

The guitar in that auction seems to be a modded standard Pro Tone, the humbucker being added. A quick check of standard Pro Tone prices is around the $300 asking price range,like this one.





They're actually really nice guitars, definately a few steps up from the average Squier models. If that actually was a Pro Tone "Fat Strat", it would go for more then the standard model as they are pretty rare.

[Not Steve]

Really, I'll have to look into that, so, just wondering, what would be a fair price for a regular one (like the one in the link you showed me) with some issue that caused it to buzz when it's plugged into an amp be worth? (not sure what the issue is. haha, craigslist...)