Guitar Shops in São Paulo

São Paulo (capital) has a very famous street called Rua Teodoro Sampaio which is known for having almost all the music stores in São Paulo.
Its very easy to locate a good store there, you just have to look for a big store which looks like it's trustworthy.
There are lots of good stores and some include:

• Hendrix World Music

• Reference Music Center
  

• Made In Brazil

These are some reliable stores which the product can be trusted ( the product can be trusted but the price can not me worthy [just like in my last post take a look for guitar prices in Brazil ] ).
Making choices on what instrument you want to buy is not that complicated, you can go to the store and ask for professional counseling (all the workers there are semi-pros or pros in music).
The process is simple, you tell them the range of price you want to pay, they show a various instruments that suit your needs in that specific range of prices, you choose one, test it, see if you match that instrument ( by match I mean that if you feel comfortable playing it) then buy it and enjoy.
So whenever you want to buy a musical instrument check out Rua Teodoro Sampaio which is next to Oscar Freire in the Bairro Pinheiros

Guitar prices in Brazil...

Imagine yourself having the famous Gibson Les Paul at your house, when everytime you come in you see that guitar and can feel pride for that accomplishment, ( the buying of that guitar).
In Brazil that accomplishment is far off reality, Guitars that cost (in the USA) 400$costs about 1500R$ in any brazilian music store. Of course there is the dollar change which is about 1,9$ but even with that change the cost of a guitar here in brazil is absurd. We also should take in consideration the tax fees that we have to pay for the guitar is a USA product, which at maximum costs about 200R$.
Even with all that taxes and dollar change the prices of the guitars here in brazil is way off what any normal class people can buy.
Lets do the math for instance...

400x1,9+200= 960

It's incredible how the market here in brazil can add up 540R$ for no reason apparently.
Lets compare a normal standard Epiphone Les Paul in the USA ( a intermediate guitar in the USA) with a normal standard Epiphone Les Paul here in Brazil.

Epiphone Les Paul Standard Plain-Top = 915$ (USA)

Epiphone Les Paul Standard Plain-Top = 2.466R$ ( BRAZIL)

well thats something to think of...