Misleading ad titles and prices

It's my belief that ads lacking the usual information are designed to lure you into the lair of a persuasive sales person. Whereupon he/she can work the magic of destroying any confidence you may once have had in your own decision making ability and then replacing that with his/her more informed opinion. Don't let it stress you. Bait and switch, creating a need and filling it, withholding, upping the ante and working you up into a spending lather are all tried and true techniques. Misleading sure, but not really dishonest. The sales person probably truly believes he/she is helping you get into something new. No moral dilemma for me. I just move along to somebody more straightforward.

I don't usually bother with those ads once I spot them.

Hi Entrope, how are you? Yea I seen those ads as well. My feeling if they can't be upfront with their pricing, they are not worth looking into.

IMHO, most of these ads seem to originate from dealers. I think Audiogon should keep them out of the personal classifieds. If individual's follow suit it may contaminate the very system that we have all come to love.

I see that on occasion individuals are also doing the misleading ad pricing. I think it is not in keeping with the honorable tenor here at Audiogon. I really don't think these ads even belong on the site. They should reported and remedied rather than ignored.

If the members police themselves then less onerous policies are implemented by "the man".

Phd- doing well, still addicted to audio. I have moved to tube amps with no regrets. By the way your McCormack amp is in India now.