Buying Guitars epiphone second Guitars

I have bought two epiphone guitars which are factory second guitars. factory second guitars are guitars with some paint mistakes in the paint or binding and these mistakes are not noticable sellers sometimes sell these at a lower price because of these Mistakes I bought a3pick up paul black beauty with a mistake in the clear coat this item was listed as a Guitar second with slight paint flaw which did not affect the playabiltiy , SO I bid on the Guitar won the bid and waited for delivery , So the Guitar came it was a very nice epi custom I had to look really hard to find the flaw the only way to see the flaw was to hold it up to a certain angle and look two inches at the the corner of the Guitar , So time to tune up and some minor adjustments , I pluged in and was suprised my factory second sounded very good I have a tokai guitar Made in korea and . This Factory chinese made epi custom second sounded as good as my tokai . and the epi is a solid heavy les pual guitar . My experiance buying my first factory second went well I saved around a 150 dollars not that much but still a good deal for epi les paul model . I am going to buy ace model factory second from the same seller . factory seconds are some times good deals but buy from a seller who accepts returns on Guitars because some factory seconds are Gems and some are lemons.