Reading threads and posts when selling and buying


In addition to feedback, do you read initiated threads and posts by the person you consider dealing with? If there are any.
I always do. But not necessarilly all of them.
inna

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I do too, but when a person has participated in a large number of threads and hasn't posted their system it makes me very wary.
Audiogon is a community, on-line, but still a community. One attribute of a community is the concept of sharing /reciprocity. If someone on Audiogon doesn't want to share their system with fellow Audiogon community members, so be it. I'm sure they have their reasons and who am I to judge their validity? But when it comes to doing a financial transaction with one of these people I'd be a wary. Buying/selling is about give and take and I would be dealing with a non-reciprocating person.

That said, if I really want to buy/sell something it's just another factor, not and overriding concern.