I am sad

I have a lot of experience dealing with non-responsive customer service (mostly successful). You have a lot of options you haven't explored, turning this issue into a life-threatening trauma on this forum is not one of them. 

@mward what a lovely alias! He is in my all time top 

Yes, totally, call the Ambassador. And the head of the CIA. Or maybe the president of the US of A. Don't let them screw with you, they will teach them.

(I almost said, they would make the country join BRICS and slap a huge tariff on them, but they would be considered political here so I didn't say it) 

I am in full agreement with @thecarpathian this time, for once. I have disagreed with everything he said in the past though. Somehow in this thread he found thruthiness.

I didn't know doge cut humor too, they probably didn't have to....

I am not attacking you brain size, I am above that but we all know the difference between your kind and mine  

@kerrybh +1

that is perspective!

preemptive actions I should consider 

pray for a hurricane and epic floods. 

@immatthewj I had so many jokes, this was the least terrible. Imagine the rest!

so you can empathize with someone whose house burned down @thecarpathian but dismiss the pain of a fellow audiophile forced to live without his favorite amp. Got it.

I don’t know if you understand what you are doing.

I am in incredible pain right now and have been over the last 10 days. Over something that is way more significant than a broken amp but is still not a big deal. Then today I just learned that one of my best friend is seriously ill.

I suddenly felt ashamed that I can suffer so much while others have real real pain and problems.

I think we all try to understand you but failing. Many offered you help with contacting your amplifier vendor and you ignored them.

What was the purpose of your post?

All I know is, is we’re going to take in hundreds of billions of dollars in tariffs, and we’re going to become so rich, you’re not going to know where to spend all that money, I’m telling you. You just watch.

We’re going to have jobs. We’re going to have open factories. It’s going to be great.

Just to clarify (and I am ordering my Ferrari now) the tariff will be paid by France on that French wine, right? Not me, the consumer. Or....... 

@immatthewj I think we are sending every thread into oblivion with tariff talk. We created audio snapchat.

Show me the "agonizing, struggle, desperate"

Here you go @thecarpathian ! You were so wrong. He never said it literally LIKE THIS, in this combination. He might be sad, desperate, depressed or in agony. But not all of these in the same time. Who among us hasn’t been

sad OR desperate OR depressed OR in agony over audio problems.

 Do we now have to police emotions

yes!!!

you are aging backwards in front of our eyes (It's a compliment too, depending on your preferences)

This topic seems to have exhausted itself

tariffs anyone?

I am truly sorry @thecarpathian 

but I apologized for him. Let it go!