What was the craziest location that you made an audio purchase from?

TA-A1ES: Direct from Sony warehouse in Singapore (the last NOS unit they had in stock worldwide (2022), at least its what they have quoted to me) ...

Once drove to Poland from Denmark and back with a friend to buy a pair of speakers, only to realize when we arrived that they didn't live up to my expectations. Not an easy decision to make on the spot, but we still had a great trip on our ~950 miles on the road.

Some years later we drove to Brighton and back (~1,700 miles) to pick up a pair of handmade horn speakers. Those we did return with, but it was an arduous drive being we almost made it in one stretch with only a few hours sleep in the middle of the night in a van - that is, in the middle of the winter and well below the freezing point. 

My current main speakers were delivered from Germany by a carrier to my front door - much easier.. 🤔

From eBay in Chengdu, Sichuan, China. It looked and sounded suspiciously like the original Sophia Baby.

Found a Western Electric 555 tweeter, 20 feet up, after climbing a wall of open shelving in a storage shed. I was 'pickin'. The guy had (noshit) 300 vintage (20's-30's) movie projectors, maybe 60 Short wave/CB High end military units, thousands of vacuum tubes (of which I knew nothing at the time), etc. 8,000 square feet of cool stuff. Nearly died, but only paid $10 for the 555.

Sold it to a major collector who flew from Korea to buy it for 4K

Bought 7K worth of nice equipment at a Neighborhood garage sale...for $180 cash.

Lady had just left her husband and was getting back at him. I paid her, left them there for a while, and checked out other houses. By the time I got back, there were 5 guys, drooling at the stuff, "Are you the guy who bought these?" "Do you know what you have?". Then the offers started to roll in. I'm not desperate for money, so I just smiled and shook my head. They even helped me carry the M&K dual 12" subwoofer and the B&W speakers to my car. What nice guys :)