My thing is I work away from home for 3 weeks at a time. So for me to post a current pic, that's not gonna happen. Besides, I could post a pic of a defective speaker/amp regardless if I was a scammer. So posting pics of said items is moot. Always has been.
Also I don't mind having my references named in my sig. What I don't care for is having a thread for people to muck up, and having to post the link in my sig. If people want to buy from me, contact the people in my sig, because as some people think...I am Canadian, and we have no friends, so my references are good.
If people are too lazy to ask a reference, then they don't need to buy my items. And if you guys need a picture to see that in fact I do have it....working or not...well. I could send a freaking empty box.
The pics are only needed if the two people doing the deal want them. For all the spectators who don't give two shiats, are not interested, but come in there for the pics....they are the ones you need to contain.