HAVE ALL SALES STOPPED ON AUDIOGON ???

Well, I like the photo, being a PF fan.  But you can keep the preamps, as I am quite happy with my PS Audio BHK Sig.

It was and is a boomer hobby and it is dying as we all age and stay content on our systems. Younger folks are a speck of this hobby and their interests are elsewhere. We grew up with Hi-Fi, and Cars and a love of music. It is generational. I still look from time to time, but less so today. The hobby is also now focused on the very well off due to a lack of sales for the average Joe with family and kids and zero interest in spending for high-end gear or even above say a Best Buy store. I love the hobby still but the writing is on the wall. Portability, streaming is the thing, along with cell phones, earbuds and of course the streaming radios and Sirus/XM. Have all the music and styles you could want so no reason to own or buy for the average Joe, they can hear their music without the cost of high-end Audio gear nor the collecting music, the buy songs now, the whole album to them no longer matters.  

bailyhill
The stock market has treaded water for almost a year.

What stock market?  My 401K is looking pretty.

musicpod

I've spent a significant part of my life in sales. Yet, I'm still surprised that people just don't seem to get it -- no matter how long -- that it is price. If your item isn't selling then it's overpriced.

I've spent enough time in sales to have had the following drilled into me -- ad nauseum -- a market transaction is when BOTH seller and buyer have come to a MUTUAL agreement on price and terms.

I perused some of the responses to the OP, which include shrinking buyer pool, less interest in the hobby, etc. This also considers the responses related to time of year, etc. This is ALL on the demand side of the equation. So, if your item isn't selling what does that tell you about the demand side of the equation?

+1.   Everything sells at a price, common sense!

JB

Yes its a very nice piece of art - hanging above my Turn Tables - of which I have too many also :-)  

Will update this thread if anything comes of the "name your price" ad

Good Listening

Peter 

I like buying used stuff that I know something about (cameras, cars, tractors). But, when I’m confronted with a "like-new" item that is only 10% below new price, I usually buy new.

On eBay I have seen used mid-range DACs with buy-it-now prices at and sometimes above the new price.