The difference is the brutality of shipping on those speakers that have been in your home, more chances for something to be knocked off, broken, cracks in solder joints opening up, etc.
If this happen, what about if this do not? Not always you have those unfortunate cases, also that brutality you are talking about could happen in the way to you, and IMO if properly packed, that should not happen.
Axioms pack very well BTW, and we can use, to send them back, those same boxes, at least I did, if you discarded them, $10.00 for a set of boxes is not that much in my book...
What about insurance, that way if they break, they pay...period, do not tell me that does not work because I know it does, I have received some insurance reimbursement from brutality in a couple of cases, one of them I even kept the broken item, which later on I fixed it...
