Tír Na HiFi

Here's a little experience I had during the week. Idly surfing,I came upon a pair of Focal Alto Utopia speakers for sale in London for 3000 pounds. The going rate for these (4 years old)is around 7000 pounds so they were a good potential purchase. The seller confirmed that they were in good condition and no damage etc. I asked for his address with a view to popping over and seeing them , or getting someone to call round but he said they were in his holiday home in the Isle of Man. This made them sound like a wealthy man's set up and probably with little use so after learning all about Manx airlines and the IOM Steam Packet company I said I would pop over to the IOM and everything went silent. After a day I informed the website buy.vivastreet.co.uk and they pulled the ad.

Even in the gentle hifi pastime there are scammers lurking ,ready to hook a sucker.

there's load of them out there, some of them even have shopfronts!

Gum tree london or any gum tree uk site has regularly got hi fi exotica at too good to be true prices all scams I followed up on a few and as ken said you will soon hit a brick wall when u say u are on the way to see the item
Willie

Same with craigslist. Avoid avoid avoid.