What's up with ads for $70,000 speakers selling

Unfortunately its at the point now that I won't deal with anyone unless they have considerable feedback. Hope audiogon or the community can find a viable solution to this growing problem. Good Luck

I bought those Maxx 2's for $6500.00 and wondered why the crates were so light!

I've also seen several ads here for newer McIntosh items selling for 1/4 of their original price, all sellers have 0 feedback, and all have Asian names, even tho based here in the US. As said before, if it's too good to be true,......buyer beware.
I, too, have had my responses blocked lately, all atributable to the new Audiogon.

Just more scams from the evil minds of the "Fraudiopiles". It seems the buying and selling audio gear has now become a walk through a minefield.

I agree with most of what has been said above, but when it comes to high ticket speakers, moreso than preamplifiers and amplifiers, there does seem to be a very substantial drop in value after they have been "driven off the lot".
I remember even very recently seeing an Audiogon retailer trying to sell a pair of Nearfield Pipedreams for a small fraction of their original cost. As I say, I notice it more with components, especially speakers, that had original prices that were stratospheric.
As I remember, that retailer has been trying to sell those pipedreamss for a long time.
Another reason I believe is that some brands don't get enough press, and their name recognition when it comes time to sell is very low. Good example: Stealth Acoustics.