Great bargain - but outta my reach


Ever been grazing the classified here on A'Gon and seen a piece that you KNEW was a KILLER component and was listed at what you KNEW was a KILLER price, but still at a price that was outta the reach of your wallet? A rhetorical question, I guess, cause it has happened to me twice this week.

What piece like that have you seen that has just frustrated the bejeebers out of you and does it make you less satisfied with what you have when you just coulda had better at a smokin' price, if only....?
4yanx
A while back, a pair of Atma-sphere MA-1's, latest model, low usage, going for less than half-price; I was about 2 hours late. Also once bid on an auction for a brand new set of MA-1's with no reserve; I chickened out at what turned out to be only a few hundred bucks below the high bid, which itself was only a little over half-price.
I was very envious of the guy that bought a brand new McIntosh MC202 on ebay last week for $1425. I would have LOVED to have gotten that thing but just can't quite afford it at the moment. Same thing happened when a Pass Labs X150 a few months back sold on ebay for $1500 in perfect condition. I have been hating it ever since! Oh well...I hope one of these days it will be my turn.
ahhh worse yet, even as i type there is a linn axis(mint) on ebay buy now....

BUT ALAS, the guy has zero feedback do you roll the dice??
I almost bit last weekend on a pair of BAT VK-120 monoblocks (wired at the factory). List was $10000, they went for less than $3100. Good condition, good feedback. If I hadn't just dropped a couple grand upgrading my power (dedicated lines, power cords and conditioner) I would have jumped on it. I was biting my knuckles as I let that get away. Right buy, wrong time. Maybe someday it will roll around again when I'm ready.
Well, there are the used Rockport Antares still listed here, I think. Fortunately, Egglestonworks has a program which is allowing me to upgrade my Andras to Andra IIs for a fairly nominal amount, and I should be 100% satisfied. But there are those Antares....