unfortunately, all I've seen are CL flippers who ask for more than ebay (including shipping)
since their units are better and there's no possible shipping damage. in perfect working
condition and NOS, mint, or better. then the pictures are stolen and photoshopped.
it's a response to all the folks who wouldn't drive 5 miles for a mint TOTL Pioneer/Marantz
receiver, don't have/use credit cards, hate eBay, etc
as long as there are thousands of flipper-certified sellers, there will be buyers who
want a "scroe" of something for bragging rights and street cred and at a price they
just had to have. maybe once in a awhile they win but most of the time the unit doesn't
work and we hear about it.
the "good" news is we hear about these transactions-gone-wrong and the
not-so-obvious-light-at-the-end-of-THE-tunnel is that we save another
unit from the dump.
and the many buyers out there who get burned, either learn to fix (a good thing),
or leave the "scroes" to the flipper-hunters, and
there are more flipper-sellers and "scroe"-hunters out there every single day,
millions, that while you're making flipper-chump-change, or DeOxiting a
hopelessly broken unit, you can still
enjoy the music.