Mark, I said you are a beater because you beat people across the ears and head in public for not being subscribers. The word beater was used in the sense of being a person who tries to drum up business, and in your case, also beats on people. Pretty things who wander around in bars with prefilled shots of liquor are beaters or drummers. Beer reps/salesmen who stop into a bar for half an hour and buy the house a round are beer drummers. Folks who harangue others to become subscribers are...beaters.
I also never said anything about a seller(or the OP) being elitist, Absolon. Nor is DS2000 elitist for observing an increased incidence of buyers reneging here vs other forums. It is an observed condition. There is no driving urgency in any of my posts about elitism, or putting people down, or putting gear down. It is about recognizing that we are in troublesome economic times, with a lot of uncertainty. You couple these elements with varied income levels, people of varied age brackets, and varied buying habits, and you will be able to develop a buying model that can project niche markets, like the vintage stereo market, and the new/used record market.
Mark, plese point out again where I said "riff-raff." I didn't. The second time, I tried to point out that the plurality of folks here are neither wealthy nor upper middle class, which in America is poor. The first time I said poor directly. Neither was used in a negative connotation.
AS Bowtie pointed out, it often is harder to process a sale with someone who is wealthy, because they want the gear to be a perfect example, at a price and condition they want, with the exact set of knobs they want, etc. Someone lower on the ladder often merely wants what you have, and will be much happier after the purchase than the moneyed buyer. One of the biggest things I like about AK, for all the complaints and misgivings I also have, is the fact that many people are so grateful for what they do have, and what they have managed to stumble/find/buy into, and hearing the passion they have for a two, three, or four decade dream they finally have realized. The passion for good music, and gear that delivers that music, is one of the great unifiers we have here...and also the largest divider.
And my Edgarhorn Seismic subwoofer, affectionately called the Ziggurat, just left the garage after four different Audiokarma buyers backed out over a three year period. A friend who scraped together the money to buy the TAD mid drivers and the woofer enclosures when we first moved the estate, traded a surplus Sun Audio preamp for it, and is happier than a pig in warm mud he now has the complete set. holding a 5 foot tall, 300 pound subwoofer for three years for the right owner is good karma.