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Why even bother?

I’ve been in the market for a specific speaker. Twice I’ve responded to ads.

The 1st one: We were agreed on price and that I would drive (about 6 hours each way) to get them. Just a matter of timing. They’ve been packed up for some time apparently. On April 27th, I emailed, simply asking if he’s run them lately just to make sure they are ok. As of today, May 10, no reply. This is even after a phone conversation a few weeks ago. Oddly, he has good feedback. The ad was on the "other" site but feedback here was good also.

The second was from just a few days ago. I responded to the as right after it was posted. I asked the usual questions (age..how many owners, etc.) No response. After a couple of days, I resent the questions. So far, nothing.

 

So....WHY do people go to the trouble of placing ads and then not responding? It’s really baffling.

secretguy

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immatthewj
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Not at all the same, but a few years ago, before I had a SACDP and before I knew anything at all about SACD, I saw what I felt was an expensive MFSL hybrid for sale on ebay. I really wanted an "audiophile" copy of that CD but I didn’t know for sure whether hybrid meant compatible with red book CDPs, so I messaged the seller and asked him and I got no response. I did some research and found that it would play on my CDP, so I then trued to buy if from that ebay seller, but he had me blocked.

I bought it from another ebay seller, but I always wondered what I did that pissed that guy off.

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