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HAVE ALL SALES STOPPED ON AUDIOGON ???

I haven't sold hardly anything in a month, is anyone else having that problem,or is it me........autospec
autospec
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viridian
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Will, perhaps the market for modded Dynaco tube amps has just cooled. It was a pretty segmented market anyway and there is a lot of this type of product out there at the moment. The ship for this type of modkateering may well have permanently sailed.
garebear
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…...I would generally agree. The sale of some lower priced ticket items like power cords or lower end priced electronics will move here. Higher priced more boutique items as I have watched here on a daily basis no longer move as fast here on Audiogon ...….unless, unless you price it so far below the normal price in which somebody picks it up and then flips it in the Asian Pacific marketplace.  Audiogon is also partially to blame with this new format …..I can't find a thing. But the market for High End Audio has changed here in the US at least. The used market is a whole other story as buyers want it all and want it for free. I tried TMR Audio to sell a couple of items and what they offered was a crime for some really nice gear. They are really nice people and I understand they want to move it fast with about a 25-30% mark-up over what they paid you for as they need to stay in business and make a profit.  However, that has also contributed to the lowering of any prices of gear sold here on Audiogon. So, yes you just say the hell with it and keep what you got unless you are willing to sell your nice gear way below market prices just to sell it and believe you me, the vultures are there to pick those sales up.   
glupson
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Market price is what a seller can get for the goods, not what that seller feels she/he should get for those goods.


We should stop thinking about equipment as some sort of a safe investment and accept that our gear is worth close to nothing to most of the people out there. Apparently, even to people similar to us. If they do not want to buy it at a given price, it is too expensive.


garebear,

Have you tried to split the difference between what dealer was willing to give you for your gear and what dealer would be advertising it for and sell it yourself? Maybe that would work.

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pbnaudio
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Yesterday a thread was started about the images I used as attention getters in ads and banners run here on Audiogon, I've commented about this above in this thread too.  The thread have been pulled as it got pretty heated.  

I have just posted a new banner with quite a different image - wonder what the result of this will be.

Banners and ads are a way to generate sales, which the OP in this thread was mentioning is disappearing.

Lets see what happens ?

Good Listening

Peter

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