Do people really just not get it that their items are not selling...

Most stuff I see today is over-priced..I was looking at picking up a Parasound P5 preamp and the lowest price I saw used was $800.00
plus shipping. They were only $1k brand new.

But the funniest things I saw were on ebay, some Russian and Japanese sellers really look for idiots, they might themselves be idiots as well. I mean both equipment and records.

On the other hand, the other day I was talking to a Japanese record seller on discogs. The record was advertised as NM, so I just asked him to confirm the condition. He play graded it and said no, it has some noise in couple of places, though it does look NM. Then he corrected his add and lowered the price. Nice. We'll see, I bought it, should be very strong VG+ - acceptable.

If you are selling an Oppo 203 slightly used for $650,
you will succeed!!

But it does seems to me that people have forgotten how to negotiate, let alone a nice win-win deal.  I’m aware buyers are not concerned with a two sided deal, just there own, but still, fair offers seem rare... It indeed was quite different as close as 3 years ago or less.