Pet audiophile peeves - name yours

Audiofeil nice observation.. Audiogon is NOT the place to buy LP's (I have bought maybe 3-4 LPs here) for your reasons listed and high prices. I buy VERY CAREFULLY on ebay. Sometimes you win, sometimes you lose (like more surface noise than rated) But I win more than lose.

Sellers who post an ad, you ask a question, they reply and you say no thanks for whatever reason.....but they think just by responding to the ad was an agreement to purchase.

By far, the most annoying thing is when sellers don't list the age of the gear they are selling. Especially, when they grade speakers 9/10, and then you come to find out they are 5-6 years old.

When I make every effort to ask all the right questions of a seller (pertaining to re-examining and disclosing any cosmetic, functional, or shipping concerns) and their equipment still arives with blatant/obvious issues absent of any shipping-related reasons, I really get irritated at the complete waste of my time (almost a dozen times). This goes for inadequate packaging concerns, and the disceptive substitution of original packing materials, ie; any old "box".

Sebrof,

People with nice gear that I'd love to own, but when you look at their system it's in the living room with no room treatments, one speaker behind the couch and the other one halfway in the fireplace with a huge TV in the middle. Then they post about some minor change they made, like they changed their cable lifters from ceramic to hi-temp ceramic and the result was "jaw dropping - You gotta try this!"

Good one!

It makes you wonder about those that report similar jaw dropping effects on minor tweaks and yet they share no setup pics at all !