look at the fretboard at the 12º fret, the name of the pickup and the color, one is white and the other is grey, the pickup of the 2008 is h2 mine is f-h2. well obviously the difference couldnt be much bigger than this, but still, mines the upgrade of that, and you cant say its the same. its like buying a car, do you prefer to buy a x car or to buy the x car but with the new restyling improvement, that is substituting the normal x car, that makes your car totally brand new and the other the old one? that guitar thats selling has like 2, 3 years and mine not even 1 has.
i would ship it from portugal