Good thread - as I actually had one member here on Audiogon just a few months ago buy an expensive interconnect cable from me owned it for about 10 days and then decided that the cable was "broken'' and wanted his money back. Needless to say that this created an issue with Pay-Pal who really looked at both sides of this situation in which I had to literally defend myself and get verification from the cable manufacturer on why the cable as the buyer described it was in fact not broken but a product / result of his own equipment's shortcomings. This member / provided no information to Pay-Pal support to support his allegation ( hmmm sound familiar ) about the cable being '' broken '' and after about 6 weeks Pay-Pal ruled in my favor. He said ( lied ) that is was broken just to get his money back because he didn't like the sound. I now put ; No Returns on my adds just is case anything like this happens again. If you don't like it is your responsibility to re-sell it - not mine !
An old phrase which, I believe, may be timely...
The idea of "buyer beware" is not new, but may be very timely. Knowledge is our best defense against being fooled/taken/scammed.
I owned a very high end modern/Scandinavian furniture store for many
years selling some very famous items, some of which are at MOMA.
The famous designer "names" are in frequent use on ebay listings
for poor quality items that have nothing to do do with those designers/architects.
And the same can be said for Craig'slist and any other "resale" site....and in this
economy people are selling off much of their expendable possessions. And yes,
there are names that can be used in audio advertising for products that have
nothing to do with those "names". When in doubt, get an opinion from a
person with knowledge.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caveat_emptor
I owned a very high end modern/Scandinavian furniture store for many
years selling some very famous items, some of which are at MOMA.
The famous designer "names" are in frequent use on ebay listings
for poor quality items that have nothing to do do with those designers/architects.
And the same can be said for Craig'slist and any other "resale" site....and in this
economy people are selling off much of their expendable possessions. And yes,
there are names that can be used in audio advertising for products that have
nothing to do with those "names". When in doubt, get an opinion from a
person with knowledge.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caveat_emptor
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Thank you for your input. I have had two bad experiences, one on ebay and one on AudiogoN. In both cases the "bad" Buyer in a very short time was not on either site...as I was not the only person they tried to or did scam. People are people, Nixon was Nixon....etc. Although Dick had some early Heathkit stuff he really liked, but Pat was more of a Fisher person. |
Where I live we have a consumer guarantees act,which is a helpful tool against the many slippery traders of new goods.The second hand market is still a wild west affair where caveat emptor should be mandatory.In saying that its been my experience that most traders are worthy people with no intention to defraud.The ones that do become well known Shysters,eventually their past catches up with them leaving many unhappy buyers in their wake. |
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