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NotreDame · Post by **NotreDame** » Tue Aug 08, 2017 4:23 pm

I may look naive, but since some weeks, I am more and more interested to buy a pair of specific speakers.

These speakers cost a lot, about 3000 dollars.
But, on Ebay, I found many sellers of these speakers, selling them for nothing.

I even found one selling these speakers for 300 dollars, saying that they are in very good conditions.

So, it may be a scam, but these speakers are very rare, and manufactured in England (I think it would be very difficult to copy it).

Except buying a broken pair of speakers, do I risk to get a counterfeit product ? Does it exist in the speakers field ?

Thanks.

Jedinhopy · Post by **Jedinhopy** » Tue Aug 08, 2017 5:06 pm

Refurbished loudspeakers?

egbert · Post by **egbert** » Tue Aug 08, 2017 5:41 pm

There have been scams in days of yore where new sets of speakers in nice boxes with a "brand name" close to that of a well respected brand were sold ultra cheap - eg out of the back of a truck and with some bogus story about blah blah extra pair blah blah. Inside the boxes were dirt cheap crappy drivers and electronics.

With ebay, for scam artists, it must be like taking candy from a baby - the customer cannot even see the item up close until it is too late.

If it doesn't seem legit it probably isn't.

slipstick · Post by **slipstick** » Tue Aug 08, 2017 9:05 pm

If you've found lots of sellers on EBay selling really cheap then either the speakers aren't anywhere near as rare as you imagine they are or there are some serious scams going on.

Steve

BertKoor · Post by **BertKoor** » Tue Aug 08, 2017 9:29 pm

Lately I saw a pair of Munroe Eggs for sale for something like 300. Could not believe! These are like 2000 new.
Would you trust it?

Lesson: LISTEN how they sound FIRST!

kbaccki · Post by **kbaccki** » Wed Aug 09, 2017 3:05 am

Freshman year in college. First day, moving in. Floormate decides the $500 hifi's being sold out of the back of a shifty looking unmarked white van right there on Comm Ave was too good to pass up. Get 'em upstairs. Plug 'em in. No sound. WTF. Open them up. Empty cabinets with a couple of pavers stacked neatly in the bottom. Oops. Lesson: don't buy your tennis shoes on the internet without trying them on first. At least that's my rule. YMMV.

cron · Post by **cron** » Wed Aug 09, 2017 5:06 am

It may sound daft, but if these speakers are as rare as you say yet there's a ton of them on eBay, you might want to double and triple-check that the speakers you're interested in genuinely exist as a high-end product. For instance, can you buy them at full price from a reputable third-party retailer?

The well known white van speaker scam has evolved in the age of the smartphone. They know that you can research the product on your smartphone while the guy in the van is trying to sell them to you, so they'll create a webpage for the fake company under which the speakers are branded.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/White_van_speaker_scam

wickfut · Post by **wickfut** » Wed Aug 09, 2017 7:50 pm

NotreDame wrote:These speakers cost a lot, about 3000 dollars.

they were £1299 per pair on release.

But, on Ebay, I found many sellers of these speakers, selling them for nothing.

because as you already know , the company Munro has gone in to liquidation and is selling off all its old stock.

I even found one selling these speakers for 300 dollars, saying that they are in very good conditions.

So, it may be a scam, but these speakers are very rare, and manufactured in England (I think it would be very difficult to copy it).

Except buying a broken pair of speakers, do I risk to get a counterfeit product ? Does it exist in the speakers field ?

Thanks.

They currently sell for about £700 out of a UK store, brand new with some store warranty. They are not "very rare" at all so getting used ones cheap on ebay is hardly a shock.

Maybe you just purchased damaged speakers. We will never know.

Speakers counterfeit : does it exist ?