Current Marketplace for Vacuum Tubes?

Tvad - welcome back.  Hope this is not a one-off posting.  Your expertise and experience were valuable, here.  Been a noticeable decline in "quality" since you and certain others became less active.  

Wasn't sure if your inquiry was intended to provide you with potential outlets for selling your tubes OR give you a glimpse of current tube prices.  

See list below for additional sellers.  Some of these might buy your used tubes as well (Brent Jesse, mentioned above, will):
Jim McShane
Antique Electronic Supply
Tubemonger
Upscale Audio
VacuumTubes.Net
PartsConnexion
The Tube Store
Eurotubes

I'd be surprised if you were not already familiar with many of these names.

Again, welcome back.

^ "Wasn’t sure if your inquiry was intended to provide you with potential outlets for selling your tubes OR give you a glimpse of current tube prices."

Potential outlets for selling my tubes. Getting up to speed on current prices will also be helpful. I suspect E-Bay will be best for private party pricing (more equivalent to vs. dealer).

In my recent experience with selling tubes I would say my best success came with Ebay. I got more views and they also have an international shipping program that helps with selling abroad. I had a buyer from South Korea interested in my 2A3 tubes and I sent it to Ebay's international processing center in Kentucky and they sent it abroad. No hassle for me on that transaction.

Part of the reason why I think tubes or lower dollar items aren't sold here on Audiogon is the commission structure. It is getting even more costly to sell here. You will really take it on the chin selling less expensive items.

I listed the various tubes I had here on Audiogon and I never got a sale or even an inquiry about them. 

Hi tvad. Nice to hear from you. Hope all is well.

If desired value cannot be realized right here on agon, where those willing to pay a premium for quality tend to lurk, then I would think ebay is best bet for getting a fair market value. I’ve always found ebay works pretty well that way. But you may have to start with a low bid price that draws attention initially. Its a bit unnerving at first but I’ve found in the end it tends to draw enough attention to help assure a fair price is achieved in the end if all else is in order.

Try it one piece at a time initially with those items you are most comfortable parting with on an open auction no matter what and take it one step at a time until you see how things are panning out.

Mapman, your comment about E-Bay re: fair market value is in keeping with my thoughts. Your advice regarding testing the waters is well taken.

Back four years or so on Audiogon, one could trust certain sellers to provide high quality tubes, and while those sellers' tubes generally were at premium prices, one knew what one was getting for the money. It made buying tubes on Audiogon "safer" than buying on E-Bay, IMO. 

Thanks.