Pardon me for being blunt, but how can you guys even think of buying a guitar without hearing it first? Worse, you guys are putting in down payments on Korean Epiphones at that. You guys are suppose to walk into a showroom filled with Epiphones and choose the best sounding one. Or at the minimum, kung talagan tonedeaf kayo, ang tamang kulay based on the actual unit as your EYES see it in person.
If I were in your place, you might have better lucky going in and choosing from the existing DAME stock. What you see and hear is what you get. Anyway, any showroom that does not even have a demo unit of each item in the catalog at hand before your order is just a bad indicator. It clearly shows these guys don't evaluate the sound of what is in their catalog and product offering.