i took delivery of this this morning.
To my relief it actually plays fine (since I'm looking for a regular player), the main issues are just the inlays, the binding and the fact it could do with a good clean. Haven't been able to plug it in yet. Also, someone has glued down the bridge which i find annoying as I might like to try it with an aluminium one, and the bridge might need to be moved if i go for a different string gauge etc., but i can live with for now and i'm sure the luthier can separate it.
I took it to a vintage guitar shop where they looked at it like it was a piece of dirt, with the guy slagging off ebay and being generally unfriendly. The same shop failed to sell Starfire for me in 6 months, which i then sold on ebay in about 5 mins. I suspect they despise anything that is not Gretsch, Fender or Gibson judging by their stock. Got to track my good but cheap guy from years ago.