Best prices are when items are on sale, which are usually on the same month every year. Use google to check the past schedules.
For fender and squire, yupangco's handog sale ends oct 31. For ibanez, hindi nagsesale ang audiophile.
+1 on this one. I myself I dont buy anything in any music store if its not on sale. Just Imagine the savings you'll have. Then there's always a store on sale every quarter of the year, or season - xmas sale, summer sale, back to school sale, etc
Crescendo even has the black friday sale which is the best time to buy stuff in the states because its after thanksgiving. Just wondering why they will do that here wala naman tayo thanksgiving. Lol, but its great I think.
For example they have the Epi Korina thats 31K orig price then its down to 9k n lng. Its great to save money then use it to buy other stuff you'll need like strings, cables, picks etc.
Just my 2 cents.