Best bargain find ever ?

My all time best scores were a Mark Levinson 332 fully serviced and redone where the owner thought it was broken, and sold it to me for $900 and it turned out to be the rubber sealant and the amp was pristine and should need no service for a dozen or so years.

My greatest score ever was for $2800 I once scored a Musical Fidelity Tri-Vista DAC, A3CR Amp and Preamp (all heavily modified), a pair of B&W 805 Nautilus (with stands), Velodyne HGS-15, and a PS Audio P1200 (the big ole giant) all in great to perfect condition + some really fancy power cables and sold everything but the DAC and the P1200 in 36 hours making a few hundred bucks (plus selling my gear) and giving my best friend a hell of a deal on the HGS-15. That was a score of,a lifetime

I found two Goldmund turntables at Western Audio twenty years ago. The Studietto was pristine and the Studio had some mods. The owner offered me either one for $1,000 but
would only sell one. I chose the Studietto, but I should have chosen the Studio. I sold it later at a profit.

JM Lab Profil-77s Craigslist find for $120
Aragon 2004, Aragon 24K and NAD 4300 Tuner for $400 Craigslist
ADS L-620 in decent shape $25 yard sale

Project Debut 3... $50
Paradigm Studio 100 Reference v2 + denon receiver + sony cd player... $300
Marantz MA500. $17 each

I just bought another Sony DVP 9000ES at a thrift shop for $50. It sold new for $1500. Not bad, for a discount of 97%!