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

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 :)

Agreed to buy an amp from a guy from another state. He would take mine and some money. The problem was that are states have strong border controls, but the state between our states not so. So, I drived 10 hours in one direction, met the guy,we exchanged our gear at the parking lot, had a drink with him and went back home. The amp he brought (ss) was all wrapped up (as original box would be easy to spot at the border), so I have put it in the car without looking whats inside. Two border crossing later, that I have passed with cool face, brought the package home.At the end, it was the bespoke amp inside and its in my living room since than