This sounds suspicious...


Or else it's the best deal I've seen in a long time.

128x128roxy54

There we go, both ads have been banned...

Yes, Brentwood. Great place to 'acquire' high end gear.

100% profit!

Well, sounds more 'iffy' every day.  Brentwood might prove to be a nice shopping place to gather 'no cost' articles for the truly ballsy....

"Factory Packaging"....to go with the hot air you just bought?

Love the play by play on this, btw....👍😎

Also states he's in Brentwood, Tenn.

Quite the affluent suburb of Nashville...

 

" Due to the lack of factory packaging, Do not miss out on the rare opportunity to skip the line and get the McIntosh amp you have been dreaming of.
this baby was gifted to me"

"Due to the lack of factory packaging..." what??

 

Plus he's shipping it free!

 

Strange indeed. The seller could have gotten twice what it sold for and it still would be a deal. Having owned a 462 my self, it almost requires two folds to move or an ape. When it originally arrive it was strapped to a pallet. 

Link goes to la la land so I assume it has been taken down.  

Many reported that it has sold.  Scammers don't usually mark their ads sold, at least not promptly. They would love to scam multiple people with the same ad.

Jerry

Is it possible that the scammer will post items, have a coconspirator buy them, and then create a positive sales history to better fool discerning buyers?

It’s already sold according to ad.  Until you see a complaint how do you know ?

it may have had a cosmetic issue  ?   I have bought some great products where a owner just wanted to unload gear I bought agreat pass labs amp at 40% of retail and only 1 year old . The owner has $$ and had literally 15 amplifiers he just likes to rotate  gear and he gets  25% off almost anything he owns , dealers love him.

i agree though ,Most of the time ,if it looks to good to be true it usually is.

The ad text changed some and the other ad by the same seller still shows no local pickup, and was "gifted to him", so who knows...  

Been seeing AG ads from long established members with prices that are too good to be true. The last one, posted yesterday, was a pair of Revel F228bE for around $4K with $35 shipping. It appears the scammers have gone from creating new accounts to hacking old accounts. 

It had to be a scam, that is their newest amp at that wattage and it’s a 7K amp.  As far as local pick up, I will only do it with speakers that are too heavy to ship.  Many of my ads say no local pick up and I am hardly a scam artist.  I just do not want strangers in my home and especially since Covid. 

no local pickup is always a clincher, especially on a difficult to ship unit...

Ok, I'm blind. I guess that I saw what I was expecting to see. I saw 2022 when it was 2012! He doesn't seem to have any feedback though, and why wouldn't you allow local pickup on an item like that? It's too unbelievable. He might have just marked it sold himself to close it out.

@jerrybj

+1 ( emphasis added)  … if something sounds too good to be true, it probably is 

 

Many people are gullible, and we can expect this to continue

- P T Barnum

 

There is a fool born every minute

- P T Barnum

 

No man ever went broke overestimating the ignorance of the American public.

- P T Barnum

 

 

In cases like this I will look to see when the seller became a member.  In this case the seller became a member the day that he placed the ad.