I've only bought 3 guitars:

1 Yamaha FG. Seemed the best buy of those I could afford (paying weekly) from a mail order catalogue.

2 Fylde Falstaff. I really liked this one and asked the owner for first refusal if he ever wanted to sell it. I bought it a few years later.

3 Jay Turser. I wanted a guitar with a cutaway and hoped to get a guitar the same day. It played OK and was the only one in my price range the local music shop had.