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Incredibly rare opportunity to own the Annihilator 2021 and these will sell within minutes. The Annihilator in the gold finish are very highly coveted and they currently have long production delays compared to other finishes. Right-click, add to cart, and checkout!

iDesign said:

Incredibly rare opportunity to own the Annihilator 2021 and these will sell within minutes. The Annihilator in the gold finish are very highly coveted and they currently have long production delays compared to other finishes. Right-click, add to cart, and checkout!

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They truly are a unique piece of hardware and for good reason hold the top spot on several top IEM experts' ranking lists. The gold finish by the way looks even better in person and the photos don't do them justice.

pm - to check if this IEM still available.

shonkhochil said:

pm - to check if this IEM still available.

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As noted in the thread title, there is a sale pending to someone else already. Also a note to others. Anyone else with zero message history and little or no trades on their account will be ignored.

Hello,

I totally understand that you might be annoyed by too many inquiries and that the sale is pending.
Don't mean to offend you, yet aren't you being a bit hard on newbies? Some are decent and nice people.
I just sold a set of Z1R to some with 0 sales feedback and it was a tremendously good experience.

Somehow we are all in the same boat, searching for what makes us happy and this doesn't apply to if someone has a sales score of 0 or just 2.
Isn't sharing a hobby what counts for all of us?

Just my humble opinion

I bought an Empire Ears Odin for $1850 through PayPal FnF (Yes FnF) from a user with 3 trades at r/Aveexchange. He & I became good friends. We still chat about new gears.
I have sold Fat Freq Mastero Mini through PayPal FnF to an user with little history. He is based on LA & asked me if he can try out Odin if he visit my area.
I said sure. (In return he offered me to try his Annihilator 2023). I have nothing but good experiences so far.

I am sure Hifihedgehog has his reason -- but it's his item. He doesn't want to sell to newbies. It's his choice.
Happy Holidays everyone.

Dragon Leader said:

Hello,

I totally understand that you might be annoyed by too many inquiries and that the sale is pending.
Don't mean to offend you, yet aren't you being a bit hard on newbies? Some are decent and nice people.
I just sold a set of Z1R to some with 0 sales feedback and it was a tremendously good experience.

Somehow we are all in the same boat, searching for what makes us happy and this doesn't apply to if someone has a sales score of 0 or just 2.
Isn't sharing a hobby what counts for all of us?

Just my humble opinion

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I am glad you had a happy accident in the immortal words of Bob Ross. Unfortunately, that is normally not the case. On the majority of sales platforms, most fraud purchases occur under new accounts with no history or feedback. I am a member of the eBay seller council and I can conservatively estimate that on eBay alone, zero feedback accounts make up >95% of fraud purchases. Add to this that high-ticket items are commonly the prime targets of fraud and you can quickly understand my position here.

The issue for sellers is that the magic words “significantly not as described” (“SNAD”) absolves fraud buyers of culpability despite their dishonesty. Asking for greater than zero feedback is generous on my part since even new accounts can have farmed feedback by buying from puppet accounts. I once had a newish account with 30-some feedback on eBay buy a pair of Beyerdynamic T1s and the user had torn through the part of the acoustic panel on a driver. As a precautionary measure as I always do, I had clear photographic evidence yet eBay sided with the buyer since this user was aware of the magic words “significantly not as described.”

I believe PayPal has a similar policy which unfavorably gives fraud buyers the ability to invoke SNAD to win disputes despite the truth, so you can hopefully begin to understand my unyielding stance. Some hobbyist groups prohibit the sale of items from or to new members that exceed a price threshold to reduce fraud risk, and that practice also works well in my experience. If I were selling $100 or even $500 earphones, I would be absolutely open to entertaining sales with newbies. TOTL ones? No way. The Elysian Annihilator? Absolutely not.