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Agon is now a retail outlet.

This site has been taken over by retail outlets that also advertise on Ebay and other sites, posing as bargain outlets and asking prices that are close to retail for used items and raising the prices of older items to ridiculous multiples of their original prices under the guise of VINTAGE, when the items are often those that you wouldn't but in a thrift shop or pawn shop for more than 20% of retail even if you could find them since their rarity is based on the fact that Made In Japan was equivalent to what Made in China means today. To boot these items are old enough so that their capacitors and many other parts require replacement in order to remove the risk of fire from faults in their circuitry due to age. This is the reason there is no link to OWNER ONLY ads. Audiogon would lose much of their revenue from providing such a link.
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liamowen
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My experience on Audiogon has largely been to purchase gear.  I have been pleased with every item that I have purchased on Audiogon, and happy with the price I paid for it.

And, the forums have been very helpful on technical information that I would not otherwise have easy access to.

Look for the bad and you will find that here, as you will anywhere else.  But, when it comes to high quality audio gear, I still think Audiogon is the place to go.

ketchup
459 posts
 
However, one can select "All Equipment" to filter out music.
Thanks for letting me know about that!  I never noticed that button!  It still would be nice if you could filter out any categories you want.
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birdfan
50 posts
 
I haven't had a ton of purchases here, but all went through pretty smoothly. I always request to talk with the seller by phone before purchase and if I get the "do not trust" signal I don't buy. There are lots of forums and blogs out there without a commercial or financial aspect to them. Maybe try there?
elizabeth
6,726 posts
 
I have been around her since near day one (at some ancient point I needed to reregister, ...  Anyway, never a problem.            
When I see an ad asking several times what an item is worth? I LAUGH. Who cares... Do you think you are the gon 'value police' ?Some ads claim a 27 year old item is only 8 years old. Some double or triple the original MSRP. Some ask crazy money for gear. Not my problem.    
Latest I laughed at was a Threshold FET 10 line stage preamp asking $1800+ and the Audio Research Sp-10 asking $5,000(I bought a ARC Sp-10 mk2 for $600  cash and a few broken bits of junk worth $200, about nine years ago. IMO tht was all it was worth, but I sold it here for $2,300 anyway when it was selling for 3K LOL.)        
(I recently bought a FET 10 line AND phono for $900)      
I look at it as folks unable to deal with reality. Who cares. Anyone can ask any price. Anyone is free to say nope. Works good.
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