How much more obvious can a scam be?

[Woody Sound]

https://www.ebay.com/itm/136808229989

[Jsparr1983]

I feel like a square. How is this a scam?

[AllanAllen]

I also don't get it

[Cunamara]

Seller on eBay with 0 prior transactions, no feedback, selling ultrapremium audio gear for (so far) $34 including import duties, shipping from China in time for Christmas...

[nyc chaz]

To the guys asking how is this a scam please contact me,i have a bridge in Brooklyn for sale you might be interested in.

[Jsparr1983]

Only Macintosh I’m familiar with is a computing machine prior to an IMac.

[Doug B]

Where to start? First of all, Macintosh amps are widely considered some of the finest tube amps ever made, even all these years later. Mainly used as home stereo amps or PA amps I believe. So how could one reasonably sell for $34? You'd be lucky to buy a very cheap low end small transistor music player for that price!

McIntosh Power Amplifiers for Home Audio, Home Theater, Headphones

The seller would probably send you a picture of the amp! <eyes rolling>

[AllanAllen]

Seller on eBay with 0 prior transactions, no feedback, selling ultrapremium audio gear for (so far) $34 including import duties, shipping from China in time for Christmas...

But it’s an auction, not buy it now.

[2bornot2bop]

Where to start? First of all, Macintosh amps are widely considered some of the finest tube amps ever made, even all these years later. Mainly used as home stereo amps or PA amps I believe. So how could one reasonably sell for $34? You'd be lucky to buy a very cheap low end small transistor music player for that price!

McIntosh Power Amplifiers for Home Audio, Home Theater, Headphones

The seller would probably send you a picture of the amp! <eyes rolling>

As the self appointed audio authority on this here forum I resemble these remarks. Never owned Mac gear, but only because it’s too popular and too expensive, because it’s too popular. Well, that and there’s too many other audio options to sample. Personally a fan of BAT gear for the past 30 years, but Mac rules!

[Rickco]

I wish I had a friend in China that could go check it out, if he put it on any hifi platform it woud sell in minutes for $ 4-5k, "if its to good to be true"
although we all know once in a blue moon crazy shit happens, and you wish it happened to you, Im going to watch it to see if it bids up. The shipping alone even if it sells in Asia would be $$$ to bad theres no way to hear the end of the story. And with all respect 2b, Im the self appointed audio expert but wed probably agree, if your truly an audiophile youll believe anything. My fantasy would be they were old mac tube amps at a yard sale down the street being dumped for $50. because the owner had no idea what they were, with my luck theyd have shorted transformers

[Rickco]

yuk yuk, I found it McIntosh MC611 600W Mono Power Amplifier - PAIR - Excellent
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US $12,995.00
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[sgosnell]

Bids on many ebay auctions tend to be very low until near the end of the auction. No sense bidding items up unnecessarily. Serious buyers use a sniping service to get their max bids in at the last possible minute. I have zero knowledge of this auction, but the low bids wouldn't bother me at this point. This lot might not make the reserve and not sell, impossible to say. I wouldn't bid because I don't need more hifi gear, even at a low price.

[pcjazz]

I would have thought the giveaway was the same item with the identical photo offered at fifty times the price.

[sgosnell]

Neither price is realistic, IMO. $20,000 is a buy-it-now price that is much too high. The auction is up to $315, but will probably go much higher. I don't know whether either, or both, are scams, but the price difference is unconvincing to me, for either scam or real. Auctions can be strange.

[jazzgtrl4]

why tf is this even posted in the forsale

[Mick-7]

Bidding right now is at: US $2,201.00.

Really, the main thing that makes this auction suspicious is that he did not set a reserve price.

Many people have an unreasonable faith in eBay's buyer protection policy, not likely to help you with a new seller who has zero feedback.

eBay Money Back Guarantee: "Get the item you ordered or your money back."

[John A.]

I wish I had a friend in China that could go check it out, if he put it on any hifi platform it woud sell in minutes for $ 4-5k, "if its to good to be true"
although we all know once in a blue moon crazy shit happens, and you wish it happened to you, Im going to watch it to see if it bids up. The shipping alone even if it sells in Asia would be $$$ to bad theres no way to hear the end of the story. And with all respect 2b, Im the self appointed audio expert but wed probably agree, if your truly an audiophile youll believe anything. My fantasy would be they were old mac tube amps at a yard sale down the street being dumped for $50. because the owner had no idea what they were, with my luck theyd have shorted transformers

I offer this as hope for you -- my dad had a pair of McIntosh 50w2 mono tube amps, one of which had a shorted transformer. He threw it away, so maybe someone dumpster-dove it and it has been making the rounds of flea markets lo these many years. I wound up selling the other one for him -- to a guy I bought a guitar amp from at a flea market.

I eventually wound up with his McIntosh Mx110 tuner pre-amp and his Thorens turntable. Despite possessing such (arguably) audiophile doodads, I'm no audio expert, self-appointed or otherwise. Nevertheless, I sure as heck am not buying McIntosh power amps on eBay from a rando in China. If I'm gonna get scammed it's gonna be by one of my countrymen goldarnit.

[Woody Sound]

Sold, $2750. Good luck to that buyer.

[Mick-7]

Sold, $2750. Good luck to that buyer.

The listing has disappeared, not hard to guess what that means -- https://www.ebay.com/itm/136808229989