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always offer that your uncle who so happens to live in town with the seller can stop by to pick it up and your uncle will take care of shipping. if the seller is for real, they'll give an address and ask when your uncle will be over. schedule a date and keep it, and phone them late in the game to confess.

if they're phonies, they'll "get back to you" on pickup time.

never fails.

rhyno

...never fails.

rhyno
Rhyno (System | Reviews | Threads | Answers)

Now that your secret's out, time will tell.

:)

Nothing personal Ryhno, but I would not allow your 'uncle' to come to my house. I do not just allow strangers into my home. I always feel a person out on the phone first if I have not met them. I have never had a problem (knock wood) dealing with audiophiles. I can tell in a phone converstaion whether the person knows stores, equipment, sonic characteristics, etc, whether the are a 'normal' audionut or a person who just wants entrance into my home because I have expensive stuff in there. I also have a wife and children to protect.

If I do not know the person, I will ask for his personal info (phone home and work/address/etc) and check it out first. I also have been known to check driver's license's at the front door. I don't think I'm paranoid, but I am careful about local sales. I will not put my family at risk to sell some audio equipment.

Unsound, I'm no fan of Paypal either, but I do find that being able to use a credit card has 'saved' me on at least one occasion. Paypal was of no help, but the CC bank was of plenty of help and saved the day. Paypal does offer me an opportunity to use a CC to make a private purchase. If not buying local, I would not buy a large ticket item from a seller with 0 feedback without using a Credit Card, period. I'll only pay cash if I can see/hear the unit in person, have high trust in the seller, or it is a smaller item such as cables or tweaks.

But hey, that's just me, and my kids do say that I'm crazy, so take it for what it's worth.

Cheers,
John

Soundlock, it would be my pleasure to never do business with you, you really don't have enough feedback to make me comfy anyway. And nobody really cares that I am not politically correct, which is why no one has responded by censuring me. You're right, bald, old, white men that listen to Swedes playing jazz alone in darkened rooms are anything but fringe.

But I do appologize if I implied that I am not on the fringes of society as well. Hell, after just completeing two weeks at Alcoholics Anonymous and a week at Gambler's Anonymous, I'm bettin' that I start drinkin' again.

I detected some Sarcasm in Viridian's post, so maybe he was just joshing....