chef8489
Headphoneus Supremus
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So I have been at this hobby for a long time and I have yet to feel regret over a purchase until now and I dont even have the headphones in my possession yet. I am hoping once I have them it goes away, but who knows. so here is the story.
I purchased a Schiit stack with a vali 2 and a modi 2 multi bit with a pair of akg k7xx and love it. This made me want a pair of hd6xx. The mass drop was going on but at 250 and 6 month wait I passed. Price dropped to 200 but still 6 months and I might not be living in same place so I put up classified for hd6xx. Of course as expected no luck. So I change my listing to include hd650 and raise my price a little to include shipping at 230.00. I know that is pretty low for a pair of hd650, but I am not thrilled with the color option on them compared to the hd6xx. Some one contacts me at the top of my budget but does not include shipping and we negotiate a bit and i show usps shipping for less and less time and what I though good. Dont get me wrong. It is a fair price and seller did come down on his price. Seller winds up shipping ups ground and it will take 7 days vs the cheaper usps priority 2 day shipping that allows weekend deliveries I thought we agreed on. So now I have a paid of headphones I was not completely 100 percent looking for and settled on and waiting on shipping 7 days.
Maybe it is the bad experience with ebay and amazon the past month and the lack of sleep and I am hoping once they arrive everything will melt away. But man I dont understand why people are still using Ups when usps is cheaper and faster 98% of the time. If he insisted on ups I probably would have passed on the whole deal. I know the hd650 are worth this price, Dont get me wrong. Its not that. Its the fact that they were not 100% exactly what I was looking for and I was settling and was over the price I was really wanting to spend.
I purchased a Schiit stack with a vali 2 and a modi 2 multi bit with a pair of akg k7xx and love it. This made me want a pair of hd6xx. The mass drop was going on but at 250 and 6 month wait I passed. Price dropped to 200 but still 6 months and I might not be living in same place so I put up classified for hd6xx. Of course as expected no luck. So I change my listing to include hd650 and raise my price a little to include shipping at 230.00. I know that is pretty low for a pair of hd650, but I am not thrilled with the color option on them compared to the hd6xx. Some one contacts me at the top of my budget but does not include shipping and we negotiate a bit and i show usps shipping for less and less time and what I though good. Dont get me wrong. It is a fair price and seller did come down on his price. Seller winds up shipping ups ground and it will take 7 days vs the cheaper usps priority 2 day shipping that allows weekend deliveries I thought we agreed on. So now I have a paid of headphones I was not completely 100 percent looking for and settled on and waiting on shipping 7 days.
Maybe it is the bad experience with ebay and amazon the past month and the lack of sleep and I am hoping once they arrive everything will melt away. But man I dont understand why people are still using Ups when usps is cheaper and faster 98% of the time. If he insisted on ups I probably would have passed on the whole deal. I know the hd650 are worth this price, Dont get me wrong. Its not that. Its the fact that they were not 100% exactly what I was looking for and I was settling and was over the price I was really wanting to spend.
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