Fraudulent amps up on Ebay
We got a email (thanks Erick!) pointing us to an ad on Ebay that has someone selling amps that list for $30K for $2K.
http://cgi.ebay.com/Lamm-ML2-1-monoblock-power-amplifier_W0QQitemZ250195088459QQihZ015QQcategoryZ67786QQssPageNameZWDVWQQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem
Don’t know if they are stolen or non-existent, or the seller is just crazy.
But the old adage that if something looks too good to be true…. well, there is a reason that these old sayings are still around.
Check out the photos Mike. Looks like the amps are in front of your acoustic dreams rack sitting on HRS platforms in front of the wood walls on one of your listening rooms. Cabled with Valhalla to boot. Same color carpet too. What a coincidence.
Chris
Hey Chris,
Yeah, what a coincidence.
I reported it to Ebay, which, strangely, is not as easy as one would think.
The grapevine says this is happening a lot more these days, including on Audiogon [it just gets caught a lot more quickly over there where everybody KNOWS what is what]. Funny, though, the plummeting dollar is making the scams from Europe and Asia look silly- their ‘cut-rate’ prices are often higher than the average ‘used price’ these days.
Take care,
Mike