Store auditioning and then buying on-line from others. How do you feel about it ?

I think, the idea of store financing is a good one, especially now. Even if I could pay, say, $16k for a new Gryphon Diablo 300 integrated I very unlikely would want to do it right away. You don't live without savings in this country. Five year financing on reasonable terms would be nice. I heard that in Germany they don't even have credit cards, all the financing goes thru stores. Unless it's changed.

Doesn't look too pretty, but who cares, right ?

Another asked and answered thread.
Are you asking to hear answers or answering to hear confirmation?
To your first question, it falls somewhere between bad form and stealing, IMO.
To your second question, my answer is "wrong."
"Who cares" is an unfortunate opinion.

Loathsome to go audition something already seen online, have the LAS give you its best advice, spend all day trying stuff out or even allowing a home audition, and buy somewhere else to save a few bucks, especially without giving the LAS a shot at coming close in price---double especially if the LAS is cool about questions and service concerns.

Totally agree. 

Item X available at a traditional store for $2,000, new with warranty, and available on line, new with warranty, for exactly 1/2 the price. As a consumer, are you obligated to sustain the brick and mortar retailer above your own pecuniary interests?

@zavato- Yours is a different issue.  At least as I understand it, OP was asking about using the LAS to audition equipment, with the INTENTION of buying elsewhere if the audition is satisfactory.  In that case, it matters not what the total cost or the cost differential is.  It's a form of theft...theft of services, theft of intellectual property. etc.  For which the sentence is 10 years home confinement with nothing to listen to but lossy, low bit-rate, auto-tuned Paris Hilton MP3s!

I've been friendly with dealers and have always been very self conscious about wasting a dealer's time.  I'm always very upfront about exactly where I stand in terms of a purchase.  I never go to a store and ask to audition equipment that I'm not serious about buying from that dealer.

And if I'm just visiting a store to check it out, I'll sit down and listen if a system is already playing, or if a dealer asks if I'd like to hear X or Z system I make it clear whether I'd actually be in the market for those. 
As in "those are out of my price range" and if the dealer still doesn't mind putting it on, that's up to him.

The smart dealers will allow the customers to hear systems that the customer may not think he's looking to buy.  That's how I was "upsold" before on systems.  For instance, I went to a dealer to audition the Joseph Audio Pulsar speakers.  I liked them but wasn't sure they were quite full range enough.  The dealer asked if I'd iike to hear the larger floor standing Perspectives model but I said they were more than I was looking to spend.  Nonetheless, he said no problem, take a listen anyway.  Turned out I was so smitten with the sound, now I'm likely to buy a pair from that dealer.  That's happened to me before as well.

In fact, right AFTER I started contemplating if I could possibly afford those Joseph speakers, a very rare pair of Perspectives appeared on audiogon.  Where it would be financially painful to purchase them new, at less than half price used it would have been a cinch.  It was pretty torturous to let those used Perspectives go, but I felt committed to buying from the dealer after using his time.

So I'm very against the idea of going to a dealer, using his store to audition an item with buying it second hand in mind.