About the pickups, I figured if they were already changed out and not original Fair Game! I kept the Pat# pickup but the 500T i'm not worried about. Now about that Price Question, I never kiss and tell, that should be rule #1 for everyone. But one hint for the hardcore fan's, anyone out there remember the standard on ebay out a year ago with the broken neck and no hardware. It wasn't to much more than what it went for! There are people with no limits, i'm not one of those people, i'm just truley one lucky S.O.B......