Auditioning Used Equipment - Am I crazy ?

Here's the problem for the dealer.   What happens if the amp is damaged in shipping?  What happens if you choose to return it and it is damaged when it is returned?  What  happens if you scratch it or otherwise mar it and then return it?  

@russbutton 

What I got out of the OP is that the dealer wouldn't even set it up at his (the dealer's) place of business?

But for all the gear that dealers have sent me for audition or that I have taken home to audition I had to provide a credit card for with the "you broke it/you bought it" understanding.

This experience I am going to quickly relate is a lot lower $ than yours, but back in ’99 there was a local dealer getting out of 2 ch stereo and getting more into HT and he had an old heavily altered (to the point it would have been hard to sell) SLP90 he wanted to get rid of. I was getting out of HT and way more into 2 ch stereo and I wanted to upgrade my HT digital preamp, so I asked the dealer if I could take his pre home and he let me. I loved it, so I told the dealer I’d buy it but I would want to have Cary undo some of the mods so would he (the dealer) take less than asking? He said he would.

Maybe less than a year later, to show off some of his new HT stuff, he had an open house with food and booze . . . I knew he had a pair of those little 15 wpc Cary SET 300B monoblocks for sale and I was thinking I might be interested in the SET experience, so I showed up at the open house and asked if I could take them home. He said no. Which I thought was bad business as I had spent money there before and helped him clkear inventory he didn’t want, but, whatever.

@ntpc4 while I'm a cheesehead from the football mecca, I reside outside of that area now.  To your point, I don't think i would have received the same response from a WI or Chicago dealer.  Chicago and Milwaukee have alot of fantastic audiophile stores which has got to be very competitive.

@russbutton , I was trying to pay the dealer a visit.  since it was used, i emailed them to see if i could audition in at their facility which is 2 hrs one way from my house.

@immatthewj the fact the unit was $10k is what blew my mind.  This isnt a mCIntosh where you can go anywhere to hear it.  Who the heck drops $10k on a used product with extremely limited distribution / demand  that they've never heard besides a flipper ?  I get the points some are making that the dealer may not make as much on used - but then do you want $10k of cash sitting out there for 4 months ?  No.  You want to churn and burn.  Makes absolutely no sense.