I have a guitar that I bought from Sears 55 years ago. I never could play it very well but I said I will have more time to learn it when I retire. Shortly after I retired I started to have problems with my hands, they tell me from the spinal problems I had, that made my fingers both numb feeling and at the same time overly sensitive so that pressing on the strings caused a whole lot of pain. It was and still is a pretty good guitar considering I only paid $35.00 for it, on sale.
It was one of those bait and switch deals that Sears used to excel in. They advertised it on sale, put it out on display in the store and when I went to buy it they said that they were all sold out and all they had left was the display. I said, well if you aren't going to get anymore and your sold out why not sell me the display. They couldn't do that they said, because it was against the rules to sell the display besides it should come with a case and they didn't have one. I responded well, I don't need a case and I would like to buy that one. After I asked often enough, nicely, I might add, they finally gave in because they frankly had no good excuse. So I took it home. Now comes the shocker, two days later they found the guitar case that went with it and I drove back and picked it up.