I had a chance to buy three agile guitars off a local guy in need of some cash, he was in a hard place and sold me 3 guitars for $600. An 8, 7 and a 6. They were all Agile brand not the lower steps down. The only reason I bought them was to fix em up and flip them, which I did with a nice profit. I played them initially and right off the first pluck, the stock pickups that people said were decent were far from it, some of the worst stock pickups out there. I swapped the pickups in all three guitars to various high output sets that I found used for cheap. One had a set of invaders, another a set of dactivators and the other had a set of the new EMGs. The 8 string was the nicest of the three as it was the "higher end" but it was still at best a 4/10 and not worth the price tag, the other two were just horrible playing guitars. As we all know, good pickups can make cheap guitars sound alright at times and that was still the case with the Agile guitars but the playability and craftsmanship were sub par. Yes they are what they are, cheap guitars but when you can get Ibanez RGs, Schecters and other guitars for the same dime, I would say buy those instead. When you look at where probably 90% or more of the hype on these guitars is coming from, you can gather it's just that, hype. The hype is coming from 15-20 year old kids that play mostly the two low strings and don't know what a really nice guitar feels like. For those kids I say swap the pickups and rock away but for anyone that knows really nice guitars or someone just looking for something new, I say keep looking.
Hopefully that was thorough enough.
