What I thought was most ironic was when I was looking for a new Les Paul a good 15 years ago... You'd think with that name and branding (and price!) you could expect some quality but, sadly, that was definitely not the case! I sat in the GC up here and tried about 30 of the LP's they had and almost ALL of them had some kind of (IMHO) major issues like frets that stuck out and cut you, bad setups, tuning heads that weren't aligned straight, etc., etc. I only found two out of the whole herd that were decent straight off the wall. (Nope, I didn't buy any of them!)
As I mentioned above, with Schecter, my success rate was much higher except for the minor fixes with those input jacks. I ended up with a bass and a baritone which were both awesome: