What's the bad thing about this guitar? Suzuki SUA-D?

Question:What is the bad thing about this guitar? I'm a beginner, so please understand =]
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It not a very good guitar....it reminds me of the one that Sears sells for $70.00...someone in my family bought it for their eight year old...and wow what a piece of junk...I don't know how that they get away with selling such stuff....the frets were all coming up and the tone was awful....it was more a toy then an instrument....I don't think beginners should spend 4 - or 5 hundred dollars on a guitar....but a nice acoustic for about $200.00 - $250.00 the Guitar Center has these when on sale put out by Yamaha....and believe me they don't sound bad for an inexpensive guitar, a couple of my students have bought them and are very happy.....I tell all my students to start out with something like this....this guitar isn't junk like a lot of those package deals where you get the guitar, amp, books, straps, picks, and books all for about $100.00 - $150.00 and the $100.00 guitars that I'm seeing on the Internet and TV today !!!!!!! I'm sure you know what one I'm talking about, when another person in my family bought one of those we had to take it to the music store to see if they could make it playable....and the owner told us that everyone who got one of those guitars brought it in to see what could be done with the action, the strings were so high up off of the fingerboard that he wasn't even to press the strings down without excrutiating pain....I couldn't either and I've been playing for over thirty five years. To get a half way decent sound you have to spend a little money...remember you get what you pay for...Go to the Guitar Center or any other reputable guitar store and spend a little time playing these guitars and see what you think....play them all as they all sound a little different !!! I hope I didn't bust your bubble but I've seen enough of these guitars to know what I'm talking about...and I'd hate to see you get something that is not worth spending the money on....save a little more, in the long run it will be well worth it, good luck to you !!!!!!!!

I wasn't aware that Suzuki made guitars. Not sure I would buy an acoustic guitar from a manufacturer who's mostly known for cars and motorcycles.

The one bad thing I can tell you about it right off the bat is that its being sold by COSTCO. Ugh. That means its being sold by people who know as much about musical instruments as you do -- IOW, NOTHING. The guitar will have been put together at the factory and boxed for shipment, shipped to the store, taken out of the shipping box and put on the shelf by the minimum wage salespeople, without any effort to adjust it to make it play or sound decent ("set-up"). In addition, if Costco is charging you $100 for the guitar, PLUS an electronic tuner, strap, and gig bag, they're probably paying no more than $30 or $40 to the Chinese or Korean factory that mass-produces them, which means dirt-cheap materials, and equally cheap and shoddy workmanship. So you can expect the strings to be way too high off the fingerboard, the frets will be unevenly set into the fingerboard, and who knows if the neck will be straight. Even if you brought it to a guitar repair person for set-up, there's probably not much he or she could do with it. And for the money you'd have to pay a repair person to make it playable, you could buy a better instrument.

Bottom line - save your money and get a REAL guitar instead of this guitar-shaped-object. Yamaha, Ibanez, Blueridge, or Washburn guitars will cost you between $200-300, but they'll be playable and sound decent.