Deals Gone Bad

Done a little via eBay, only one glitch easily cured with a call.

Look for 'time on', # of sales, relative +/- if there's comments....

Doesn't ever hurt to CYA...👍😎

I recently purchased a pair of Yamaha HS80M Studio Monitors (according to the listing title and item description) from Reverb.com using their app for iPhone. If I had been on a computer, I would have seen that the seller's images were of Yamaha HS50M, the 5" version. The HS80M is an 8" driver. The seller used a wide angle camera lens to make them look bigger.

Fortunately, I filed a claim with Reverb’s buyer protection before the site’s 7-day (oh well, too bad for you) window had passed and thoroughly documented everything. I got a refund for the full purchase price plus a pair of 5" studio monitors that I guess will make great garage workshop speakers.

Sorry to hear this Will. I am happy with my purchase of the SET 45 amp from you some years back. Excellent work!

I haven’t bought or sold anything used since before the pandemic.  Between the scammers and the shipping companies damaging stuff it took any fun away.  I live in Chicago so there is a decent population density for in person deals, and I’ve probably taken less value on a few pieces than I may have gotten elsewhere on line, but decided it isn’t worth the hassle 

EBay was fun two decades ago, when I bought a nice Stellarvue Apo telescope as well as some used audio gear for a second system.

 I find it to be a mixed bag now, sometimes a cesspool. With the exception of some brick and mortar stores using it as an outlet, audio gear is typically exorbitantly priced and often shady. Want to pay double for tired C-J gear than on Audiomart or Audiogon? I’ve been cheated, for example, from a fake New Balance outlet store that gave an explanation for why my shoes were months late by saying “they were on the boat from China” for US-made shoes. I was reimbursed for this fraud from my credit card. But I used to order New Balance 990’s from a legitimate NB outlet on E-Bay, not anymore. There is no longer oversight of the shady stuff it seems.