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Neil McCauley
16-02-2016, 15:49
I’ve just go off the phone to a very pleasant person and our discussion took us to the perils, pleasures and pitfalls of buying used audio equipment off the internet, including of course e-bay. Anyway, this conversation was a catalyst for the 'rule-of-thumb' I used to use when I was a ‘civilian’ i.e. during the wilderness years (only kidding) between the death of Subjective Audio and the beginning of Stereonow. My interest in equipment (owning it rather than selling it) did not diminish – and so this was the simple arithmetic I applied to an auction:

If the equipment on e-bay was discontinued:

I would never bid more than .....

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