This thread made me lol a few times. Welcome to all the new folk! I found the RRF late in my searcj for my second ric. 3 months in and then another 3 after I had all this new lit to comb through before I ended up buying new, and I would recommend most to do the same. The marketplace is for those of us who collect, swap stories and want the legend of our guitars to be passed on. "Rosie" comes to mind. Its not a place to score a killer deal, though it happens.
Craigslist can do that for you, and you can get your haggling chops up.
Rambling, I need to get back to work!

To be joyous is to be a mad man in a world filled with sad ghosts. - H. Miller