Fred Buzz

Nothing is wrong with them, or maybe the suggestion that MIA is always better than NMIA, the Squier Classic Vibe series are made in China, and most folk love them more than their MIA or MIM counterparts. So the idea of expensive = good and cheap = bad, is no good at all. And mind you, some US manufacturers are screwing you by rubber stamping their product as MIA, while they are MIM or somewhere else. In Europe the laws concerning the origine of products are a lot stricter, 'designed', 'assembled' and other tricks that might lead people to believe they are MIA are not allowed. Fender now prints on the front of their string packages: 'Made in the USA', and on the back 'Assembled in Mexico'.