Ebay is not always a great way to buy
In the past 6 weeks I have bought some real lemons on ebay.
I bought a pair of rare Systemdek manufactured speakers and when they arrived the courier had done a nice number on them. One speaker has two top corners bashed in and one of the tweeters had decomposed. All that remained of the tweeter was the front plate with a hole where the driver should have been, the diaphragm was floating inside the cabinet on the end of the connecting wires and the magnet had dropped down inside and rolling around the bottom. The tweeter is built with a plastic shell with four equidistant barbs holding the magnet to the front plate and two of the barbs had broken off. I had more chance of swimming the Atlantic that finding an original replacement, so I have chucked in a pair of ribbon tweeters in which sound very good actually. The other undamaged speaker decided to let go of a speaker terminal while I fitted biwire jumpers and the bass driver makes some funny noises. Seller hasn't been helpful. £130 down the khazi.
I bought a pair of Philips speakers with super bass WOW layout and the seller said there was tons of bass. I can't get any more than a few grammes, never mind tons.
Next was a 5 litre pump up garden sprayer that barely manages a dribble, no sign of any spray at all and the pump piston leaks fluid constantly. Chinese made rubbish.
Finally, this week I bought 2 LED ceiling lights and should have been delivered on Friday. Postie comes and goes, no parcel, so I check ebay for the tracking number. Greeted with a message from ebay saying the seller's account has been suspended and if I had already paid there should be no issues with the transaction regarding delivery. I copied and pasted the royal mail tracking number on the RM website and that number does not exist. Great.
Ebay, you can keep it
CD player = Marantz CD6006
DAC/pre = Rotel RC 1572
Power amp = ADA PF201
Speaks = Quadral Chromium Style 6