I received the guitar in less than a week and on opening the package it was immaculate just like if it were bought from the store next door. Danke Thomann!
USE: I'll use this guitar for playing live purposes. I had a well-worn Squier Strat which served me well but never felt "mine". This one however, it's the guitar sound I always had in my head and I'm incrediby happy for this.
PROS: I had a Squier Tele and Strat, affinity and bullet respectively. They were never the sturdiest instruments, nor the ones with the best intonation. However, I find this Classic Vibe model surprisingly good: the neck, the frets, the nut, the bridge system (which people tend to have problems with)... This guitar is defintely of better quality than the previous ones I had. Sound-wise all I can say is it's excellent for the price and if the Telecaster or the Stratocaster sound wimpy to you (like they do to me), but at the same time you're not into humbuckers I highly recommend this guitar for its balanced sound.
CONS: the only thing I could say is a "minus" admist this overwhelmingly positive opinion of this guitar I've been playing non-stop is the input jack offering a small resistance when trying to plug the cable. Hope it's no big deal in the long run.
It's 5 starts for me because it's the sound I've always wanted, best quality I ever had from a Squier and all features seem useful to my own purposes as guitar player. It's like the guitar I've always meant to have and I'm happy that all that investigation I did before purchasing paid in the end.
Thank you Thomann!
