Advantages: Great neck. Real wood. It's a Fender! Disadvantages: Cheap pickups and machine heads.
The Squier Affinity Strat represents amazing value for money. For about a hundred quid you get a strat endorsed by Fender with a great neck. This is a guitar streets ahead of all those cheap Chinese copies (which you should definitely avoid!)? but it's not all good news, a couple of cheap components let an otherwise great guitar down.
There are hundreds of strat clones out there but all they do is form a mountain of plywood trash? forget them. There is only one decent copy of the Fender Strat and that is Fender's own Squier Strat with alder body and maple neck. I bought one recently to experiment on. It was only supposed to be a cheap guitar for me to practice setting up, adjusting the truss rod on etc. but I ended up loving it.
The Affinity is thinner than a standard strat and the first thing I noticed was how light it was ...
Advantages: None Disadvantages: They charged me more than the promotional price stated for a week's trial membership.
Dating Direct Affinity advertised a promotional offer of one week's full membership for £1.00 which I took advantage of and signed up for a few days ago. However, on subsequently checking my bank statement over the internet, I then found out that they had deducted more than that from my bank account which had the knock-on effect of making my account go overdrawn. Because of that my bank will no doubt be imposing a £30.00 overdrawn fee on my account which will be deducted next month unless I can get the bank to waive the fee once I have explained the situation to them. Not surprisingly, I am absolutely furious at Dating Direct Affinity because of their actions and the fact that they had the nerve to take more money from my account than the price that was stated in the promotional offer.
I have sporadically used the Dating Direct ...
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