I was pretty active on Head-Fi at the time and snatched up this deal when someone posted it. I think the HD800 was still $1500 at the time.
Though that is probably not even my greatest “steal”, which could be loosely seen at actually stealing. I bought the Fostex TH-900 from a relatively new online vendor, and they accidentally sent me 2 of them. I checked and legally in the US when a merchant sends you something you didn’t order, you aren’t required to send it back. I held onto it for a bit and that company never contacted me about it and I sold it new in box for $900. I guess they were too disorganized to notice.
I’m not all entirely lucky or wise with money. I bought the Hifiman Edition X on release for $1400 and similar tier headphones like Edition XS are less than $500 now. But I still like them enough for it to be a permanent part of my collection.
Dekoni elite velour pads for $15 flat.
Aeon 2 Noire for $520
Edition XS is not the same tier as Edition X , same as Edition S
Just bought a grado sr325e for 180$. In a country where they usually cost 400 with shipping
Yeah, I freaking remembered when this happened. I was so salty that I missed it, I just bought them at full price.
IE900 for 950 AUD. Dunu Vulkan for 335 AUD Beyer Xelento 900 AUD. HD660S2 for 550AUD.
Plus an Astron SSJ007 for 1800Aud.
For anybody unfamiliar, Australian dollars are worth less than the plastic they’re printed on, so these are indeed good deals
Utopia 2022 brand new for around $2,200 USD give or take this past Sept.
Damn I wish I knew about this. Would’ve jumped all over it.
I’m kicking myself for not taking more advantage of this sale. The fact they used shoppay made it trivial to have them ship to a proxy shipper, and somehow shoppay charged 0% sales tax. I got the clear for $700ish all-in and noticed they had the HD800s for $1100. But by the time I got my Clear and verified the entire process works they raised their prices on all their Focal and Sennheiser headphones.
Who stole who?
Nothing special of a deal, but Shuoer S12 for 109€ are incredible value
300€ for an hd800 with a broken cable.
Probably used DT 1990 for 300€ with dekoni pads and two 3rd party cables each costing 100€.
7hz Timeless for $145, I feel like that was a good grab.
Meze 109 Pros for €670 just yesterday. Have considered them my end game for a long time, along with my HD600s and K702s (and well, my KSC75s) I don’t need anything else
Got a shp9600 and fidelio x3 for 55$ total because of a pricing error on a website.
I bought a second-hand pair of Bose QC35 for like $80. Then they started having this issue where they would turn on by themselves. I Googled a bit and it turned out that it was a known issue and Bose would often replace them. So I submitted a ticket and got a brand new pair of QC45 as a replacement. Good deal! At least it was until I broke up with my GF and never got them back. Oh well, easy come easy go.
I bought HE1000 Stealth for $1260