What was the craziest location that you made an audio purchase from?

In the early-90’s I saw an ad in The Recycler (a buy/sell weekly in SoCal) for ASC Tube Traps, ten bucks apiece! I called the guy and arranged to immediately pick them up. They were in an empty house in Reseda, recently sold. I took ’em all---thirteen in total, including two 16". Best hi-fi deal of my life!

@bdp24 

That was a good deal!

TA-A1ES: Direct from Sony warehouse in Singapore (the last NOS unit they had in stock worldwide (2022), at least its what they have quoted to me) ...

Once drove to Poland from Denmark and back with a friend to buy a pair of speakers, only to realize when we arrived that they didn't live up to my expectations. Not an easy decision to make on the spot, but we still had a great trip on our ~950 miles on the road.

Some years later we drove to Brighton and back (~1,700 miles) to pick up a pair of handmade horn speakers. Those we did return with, but it was an arduous drive being we almost made it in one stretch with only a few hours sleep in the middle of the night in a van - that is, in the middle of the winter and well below the freezing point. 

My current main speakers were delivered from Germany by a carrier to my front door - much easier.. 🤔

From eBay in Chengdu, Sichuan, China. It looked and sounded suspiciously like the original Sophia Baby.