What an idiot!

howie777
howie777 Posts: 357
edited February 2024 in Clubhouse Archives
Some idiot just paid WAY too much for some Marantz MA-500 mono blocks. It was one of those dutch auctions for 2 of them and I bet he thought he was getting both of them for the bid price not one! LOL what a loser.....what a minuite, that was me! DUH!

It has been one of those weekends for me. I should have jumped on the 3 for 475 at audiogon but I didn't. Then I saw this auction, at $210 thinking it was for both amps. Now I knew what a dutch auction was too, so I have no idea what I was thinking. Oh well, you live and you learn I guess.

Howie
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  • Tour2ma
    Tour2ma Posts: 10,177
    edited October 2004
    Sure, but look what you saved in shipping... ;)

    Take it from a guy who jumped all over a Dynaco auction thinking it was ST-70, PAS 4 and FM3 when it was really ST-70, PAT4 and FM3... You are not alone...

    Could not for the life of me figure out how I won it so cheaply...
    More later,
    Tour...
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  • danger boy
    danger boy Posts: 15,722
    edited October 2004
    Howie,

    congrats i think on your MA500 amp. what will you do with just one? ;)

    how many you looking for total?
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  • howie777
    howie777 Posts: 357
    edited October 2004
    I won 2 mono blocks, the amount I wanted. What I messed up was the bid price is per mono not for the pair. So I won 2 at a price of $216 each, which I though was per pair so I expected to be outbid about a minute before the aution and watch it shoot up to $300+! So in the end I paid about $35-$40 too high per monoblock! LOL So I paid $434 for 2, when I could have bought some from audiogon for $475 for 3 a few days before!

    anyway, I have a pair of RT10s, RTi8s, and RTi6s that are just sitting around. I'm thinking of using my multi room feature pre-outs (I think I have them) for a computer rig with RTi6s running off the monoblocks. But then I'd never play Doom3 again so I'm not sure:D

    Howie
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