Do you guys buy studio monitors off ebay?

God I'm glad I don't have a wife

Good Luck Ron!

I'm sorry to hear of the frustrations.

I'll stay off the bay. :-)

best regards,
mike

ORIGINAL: Fog

one thing I'd never buy of any auction site.. for a number of reasons..

1.. too high value, scammers are attracted to selling such things

2. the speakers themselves could be battered to s*** and need parts replaced. tweeters normally go a lot in them

3.. if they are active.. there might be something up with the electronics.

Surely those issues are possible with any secondhand purchase...doesn't Ebay offer any kind of protection against unfit merchandise...I find it hard to believe it doesn't.

ORIGINAL: No How

Hey Ron,

I bought the Rokit 5s and lovem. Broke as dirt i finagled it by getting the demos from 2 different online stores. Risky i thought but i also thought for $90 each i can hardly go wrong considering their value/buck.
They are in perfect health except for the occasional late night junk-food i feed them.

I just found these:
http://www.2camping.com/custom/print-catalog.php?type=product&id=146012

I would just look for the scratch and dent sales. This time of year might be fruitful.

Good luck.

(Keep the wife....very good material for songs of all sorts and sizes)

I actually got mine for $102 + shiping ($228 total)...I sold them for more than I got them for. I'd personally stick with the G2 design for the idea behind the redesign, and the resale.

My "fall back" monitor is going to be rp8's, but I really don't want to. The rp5's served me well, but I have the room treated adequately now, and can hear limitations in them now that are giving me a real tough time in my mixes. I'm finding the best deals on KRK V8's and V6's for a step up, and am also now considering Alesis prolinear 820's...although I am not very familiar with that series.

Well why don't you use a sniper program??? I use esnipe on those auctions I need to have...


Also, I outgrew my 624s a mere 6 months after I bought them and upgraded to the Event Precision 8's. I'd reconsider if you have any type of medium to large mixing area.

ORIGINAL: Jonbouy

Surely those issues are possible with any secondhand purchase...doesn't Ebay offer any kind of protection against unfit merchandise...I find it hard to believe it doesn't.

Jon , well esp with speakers the mark up we pay here is MAD.. as I found when I bought mackie 824's.. and then compared it to the US price.

they do offer protection against such things, but some people are stupid enough NOT to use paypal and do money transfers when buying.

if your ever selling any high value stuff via an auction site and the buyer goes "oh it's for my cousin who is in xyz country" can you ship it there? don't.. it's a well known scam.

the other one that was on watchdog was about the fake "congrats.. you won the bid" emails.. people really need to check the header of the emails, but don't..

jon with speakers, you just want to know they work as is.. so say u were getting them from a shop or you could test them before hand , then fair enough.. the biggest example were ADAT machine years ago.. and people lying about how much studio time they had done as you could bring that up from the menu.

the other one , since ya a recluse ya might not have come across it.. people in car parks selling speakers out of a van... they are the boxes, but with say a breeze block in them.. they were doing the same with laptops at one point. These people often offer to tarmac your drive or sell ya (off cuts) of carpet.. and wear a lot of gold... if that wasn't clue enough Brad Pitt portrayed one in a guy ritchie film

I bought some brand new HSM80s a while back from an ebay seller. Arrived in mint condition.

Lots of brick and motar shops are selling on ebay.

Just make sure to check their feedback and do your homework.

ORIGINAL: bitflipper

I missed out on a pair of HR624's that went for $300!!!!!

I just saw a pair of HR624's in a pawn shop - for $299. So perhaps $300 wasn't that extraordinary a deal.

Try Craigslist, if that's an option where you live. Those ads expire after just one week, so if you wait until the last day if the item hasn't sold yet the seller may be motivated to negotiate on price.

Craigslist is YRVIHGBOYTOH. To give you an example, yesterday I combed the entire nation on craislist, state by state, town by town. It took quite awhile. I looked up every Mackie, Event, KRK, and JBL monitor in my searches and sent out dozens of emails offering not only asking price, but extra for shipping too. I got back 1 reply! That reply was that the speakers were sold. It was a clossal waste of time!