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Thanks! There's more!
I've got two lovely amps still to check over and photograph.
- A&R A60. Beautiful veener besides from one corner ding.
- Audiolab 8000a (all phono inputs and clean!)
Also forthcoming a pair of black Monitor Audio 14 floorstanders.
Accepting offers on all this gear as I would benefit from a bit of instant cashflow.
- A&R A60. Beautiful veener besides from one corner ding.
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That's a lovely tale.
I've always thought that the Monitor Audio brand had something special to them. I had a gentleman come and buy a pair of R1200 Golds from me only yesterday. I applied some wood treatment on the spot for him and cranked them up loud in the garage and we were both in some level of awe. He'd first heard a pair back in the 80s in Portugal and had been obsessed ever since, refreshing Gumtree and eBay regularly in pursuit of finding a pair. He's also looking for a pair of Studio 20s!
Glad to hear the street party is live and kicking. I used to live at number 104 IIRC!
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Julian, you seem like a good honest guy with the right intentions. It's never a nice feeling to miss out on a pre-negotiated buy, but who can blame the seller for accepting an easy, spontaneous transaction?
You may have keenly proposed a meeting place, but you had simultaneously relayed the fact that you did not have sufficient funds to pay for said wheels. Alarm bells would be ringing in my head by this point.
Sellers using forums/online marketplaces are continually barraged with a total shitstorm of flakes, story tellers and dropouts. It can be a harrowing ordeal. I am personally scarred. Our very own @Dazaa had a laugh at my ongoing frustrations as a seller the other day. "You'll need thicker skin than that".
There are timewasters among us all, and on every street. Why do they exist? It would make for a fascinating and enriching analytical study. Please send me a PM if anyone wants to collaborate on a TED talk with me on this topic.
The best deals are short, snappy and never dragged out. It's the lengthening time spent that just opens it up to the possibility of messiness. And the city moves fast. A deposit is a great way of proving you are deadly serious about buying something.
Who knows what financial pressures the seller is under? Or space requirements? Sellers need cradling and looking after in order to affirm their confidence that the buyer will be the shining beacon of promise to beam its light through the dark, circling clouds of delusory and nugatory sales which plague our day-to-day with such pillaging vigour.
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A&R A60 // £120
Look amazing bar the split corner. Could no doubt be tidied up.