Axiom Home Page Forums General Discussion Advice from Axiom Owners Alas... Listen Ye To a Tale o' Woe!

I very stupidly sold my M60s via ebay to a guy in Alabama. Stupid because I wish I still had them and because FedEx dropped one of them on its head.
Long story short, they picked up the damaged M60, completely destroyed it and returned it without comment to the buyer. Boy was he bent. To their credit, FedEx is sending me a check to cover the buyer's purchase price and shipping costs, but now he's stuck with one M60.
Moral of the story: don't sell good speakers; if you do, make sure you have the original packaging (though it may not have helped in my case) or insist on local pickup and settle for less $.

AAAARRRRGGGGHHHHH!

i dont know what to feel more sad about..

a destroyed M60..

or the fact that you sold them in the first place..?

there has to be a good reason...

bigjohn

my 60's are never leaving my home, even if I buy some 80's some day...

.Am I reading this right that he got a refund for the 60s you sent him,then you got the refund from fedx.If so no one really lost anything.He can always buy a single M60 for $450.

wid, everything will work out OK, but it has been a nightmare. They shipped out on April 18 - what is it now 5-12? Lots of emails, phonecalls, and paperwork. I get plenty of that at work.

I shouldn't have sold them. I must have been drinking at the time I listed them. I would have cancelled the auction but folks were bidding on them pretty quickly.
At any rate, if I were to reorder Axioms (which is a distinct possibility as I retain QS8s, VP150 and an EP350) I'd probably go high-gloss M80s for a big room or H-G M3s for a small room. Nothing at all wrong with M60s, just my tax return burning a hole in my pocket.

Doubly naughty, Mark. Selling the M60s and giving the federal government an interest-free loan by getting a tax refund.

I see a set of M80s in your future.Try them I think you will be impressed.

I still have the original packaging for stuff I got rid of years ago. How dumb is that?

put the stuffing down, and step away from the box.... very slowely... slowely....now turn around, and walk away..

this is packrat therapy.. ya gotta let that crap go sometime.

my dad was the same way. when i graduated high school in 1989, my dad decided he wanted me to have his old beat-up 1936 F1 Ford pickup. it had been sitting in the garage with crap stacked up on it for over 10 years.. and as we start to take the piles of boxes and junk off, i noticed that half the boxes were still stamped with DOD stickers from when they were inspected for shipment when we moved back from Italy in 1977. so, for twelve years, those boxes had sat there, untouched, and probably unopended. i remember asking "why do you keep this crap".. and his answer, sounding as sane as possible, "cause i may need it someday".

how the HELL would he know if he needed them..? they hadnt been touched in 12 years. crazy old man!!

bigjohn

Actually, I keep all the boxes for my video equipment and electronics.

I've found that with good photos, descriptions, the original manuals and boxes, I can get 50% higher bids for used equipment on eBay than what other, comparable equipment sells for.