BE VERY CAREFUL OF YOUR DEALINGS ON AUDIO-ASYLUM


I have entered in to some dealings on Audio Asylum trader that are less than honorable......I made a deal with a established dealer to trade some rather expensive Atma-Sphere amplifiers for some basket case Altec amps.......After sending the well packed and insured amps , they where received in good order to the Audio Asylum dealer.......Keeping in mind that this dealer made no effort to ship my part of the deal during the week his amps were shipped....After no less than ten phone calls he tells me he doesn't know how to pack them, so I told him to take them to a "Pack and Ship" store and ship them....I would share the cost of shipping..........He has now fell off the face of the earth....no calls, no e-mails, no nothing......he will not answer the phone or in anyway communicate at all........Later this week I will put his Audio-Asylum business name on here.....What are your thoughts on this ???????  . 
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Showing 8 responses by elizabeth

He may have read this thread! Or a friend told him about it....So maybe the thread was the right response after all.  
Being able to call him out on it. Hope the items are as you wished.
IMO the moral of the story is do not trade long distance. If you would have bought, using PayPal or a CC, then them sold your amps. No problem. the trade means no recourse, no safety net. I suggest finding someone to visit said dealer at home....Someone big and mean. Perhaps file a theft report with the cops in the perps locale? (thing is it really is a civil court matter. Your recourse is to sue the person.) So the big mean guy(s) is the best bet. Best if the eight of them ride up on Harley Choppers.. Loud Harley Choppers. It is always good to have Biker friends.            
Curious, how far away is the perp from you? Secondly, Name names. Locations, addresses ... maybe someone can pay the perp a visit, a friendly gesture. Let them know their insurance should be up to date... Fire, health.. all sorts. It helps if the perp knows someone LOCAL is interested in seeing Justice done.(The threats in this post are all made  'in jest' and have no real threat implied or intended, just for the record.) hah hah.
You have their address.. Have you bothered to look it up and physically view it via Google maps? I mean you can SEE any property in almost anywhere in the USA. I would Google Map it get close, use the man icon and get a good look at it. that may tell you a lot.Plus, did you send it to a home? or a business address? I would be hard pressed to send anything to a business address unless it was to the owner of the business, with their name on the door.  
I cancelled a deal when the seller insisted I send the check to his 'office'. Sorry, I am not playing games for that guy. He was annoyed, and kept insisting. So I cancelled.
Just because someone 'says' they are a dealer, does not mean they have an actual store. All they may have is a reseller's license and a hope.  And then there are actual stores.. and hole in a wall no one would actually step inside of. Or the store is 'really great', and soon, soon to move from his Mother's barn.
I am sorry audioman58. You 'should' read the recent posts, instead of just the first one and then rush down to post your opinion.
So... did the item ARRIVE? or was it just a box of rocks? MY bet is on the box of rocks.... Since the op has vanished, maybe it was something ... (more sinister)
That (useless) link is the SAME ENDING as here. Three tracking numbers. Means nothing. Could be three boxes of rocks. There is not resolution to this story. Thanks to the vanishing op