I have just bought a black Crafter Junior Easy Comfort off Ebay for £14.00 sounds fine, feels fine to me. £14 bit of a bargain and with no postage as I went to pick it up local, which is the main reason for buying it. Yes if you are use to playing more up market guitars, then cheaper ones will not sound as good, but that not a good way to compare them. Compare the Crafters with other makes of guitars of the same sound and feel, then I bet there isn't much in it. If you want a bad guitar buy a starter kit from Argos for £59.99. I had a Argos starter kit back in 1997 what a load of rubbish that was, the guitar well, soon as someone can play some cords well, it really sounded terrible, got rid of it because soon as you really play it, the guitar isn't up to it. Use it in a gig and it would fall to bits. The Argos one now is called Elevation, not what I would call it. So as for Crafter guitars compared to others out there they are not as bad as all that. Should point out the one I have was used in a band as well and is still fine.