So I ask again, what exactly was the scam? If we give the
person the benefit of the doubt then it sounds like an honest use of a variety
of information sources. Who knows? I don’t check USaudiomart very often compared
to Audiogon so maybe the person thought he or she would get a quicker response
from Skywachr and others if he used Audiogon. An analogous situation occurs
when you go shopping on Amazon, then go read the news on some other site and
you get a pop-up ad for the item you were just shopping for on Amazon! Or even
worse, you get a popup ad for the same item on sale at Walmart for a lower
price (this weekend only!) and you never even visited the Walmart site. Same thing
as what happened here to Skywachr. Is it wrong? I don’t know. Is it creepy?
Definitely. Is it a scam? I don’t think so in this age of widely accessible information.