What would you do?

Inna, you are exactly correct again. This is all risk with no reward to me. The safe thing would be to stand by and do nothing. And no offense to any of you but I don't want to become an audiophile. In part, because this experience -- my first potential audiophile level product purchase -- turned me off so much. With that said, if anyone wants to cut me a deal on an Adcom GFA-555 I wouldn't be offended. Just saying.

But really, why does this have to be about me? I just have the information. Frankly I thought one of you would step up to the plate, take the information and do with it what you will. It is your community, not mine.

Put the evidence together and present it to whoever is in charge of the auction site. Let them determine if it's an issue or not.

does anyone really ever buy anything at auction?

in my 15 years on Audiogon and hundreds of transactions I've never participated in or even paid attention to an auction. it's all just 'for sale' stuff......so there is no relevancy to these comments.

nothing here to see, move along

I'm still waiting to read about whom you think the culprit is?
It could be worded as to imply this might be happening.
Too bad you had such a bad experience in audio, most out there are honest, but one does need to be careful more fraud than ever going on.