Did you ever get a guitar shipped to you with all the strings loose?  I really hate it when that happens. The dealer will usually try to tell you it's because he did not want to put tension on the neck during shipping.  

I'll Tell You The Real Reason!!

The real reason is,  most of these guys don't want to bother going to the trouble of setting up the guitar. They either don't know how to do it, or they know the guitar plays crappy,  so they purposely don't do it.

Here at Ed Roman guitars we do a full setup on every guitar we ship. (Average Value $75.00)  My shop does a complete setup and adjusts the action. The frets are all ground and polished and the fingerboard is freshly oiled.  furthermore all the electronics are checked and the bridge or tremolo is fully adjusted.

It's usually the smaller vintage dealers who are the real culprits. Most of these idiots are dumpster diving eBay maggots and many of them don't even play guitar. Many of these guys are pawnshops and other assorted small time trunk gypsy dealers trying to get rid of guitars they wouldn't ordinarily want to sell to a local customer. They usually deal in baseball cards, golf clubs. action figures, jewelry, power tools and computers and anything else they can pick up at a tag sale.

When and if you buy a guitar from any of these guys,  Just be sure you insist that they don't loosen the strings before they ship it to you.

This way when you are not satisfied with the guitar they can't use the old excuse "it was perfect before we loosened the strings"