When did audio goners now have to pay to see the book value of equipment??

I seem to remember that many years ago, the Bluebook was free. That changed probably a dozen or more years ago. I subscribed to the Bluebook for 1 year after that. I found it to be not very useful. It gave equal weighting to the price of a piece when it was current production to the same piece when it was out of production for several years.                     The Audio Research Reference 3 would be a good example. The resale price now would be nowhere near what it was in 2008. If you want to see what items are listed for and selling for currently, use hifishark. They give you both prices for current listings from multiple sites as well as for expired or sold ads. While it doesn't give the actual sale price, it does give you the price when the piece was listed. It is, IMO, much closer to what the actual market for the piece is than the bluebook ever was.

What tvad said.
I usually jot down what the item asking price was  because when sold you only see the amount it sold for. 

Good reason to go to the other, free audio marketplace.

hifishark is the best place on the planet to see pricing for the given item, in the now and in the past 3-4-5 years.

The blue book or anything else out there, simply cannot compete. Not even close.

hifishark is head and shoulders above anyone and any other website, or system.

If there are some of you that have never been there before..and you go there.. and you see what the website can do, which it can show you, what data you can get and how you can collate, seperate, parse it out....I’d wager that some of you might actually start hyperventilating from the excitement. Seriously. I kid you not.

In any supply and demand situation where there is value involved and the meeting ground is precarious, ie, the ’gon, or the blue book, well..eventually there is someone or something that comes along and takes that value or energy that is being fought over ....and repackages it to their advantage. Hifishark has done exactly that.

Something where everyone gets what they want and each party in the new system or ’way’....find it to be a better bargain. A better deal. When that happens, one of the parties of the old system, the old balance, fades away into total insignificance, it literally dies off.

Hifishark brings the buyers and sellers the data they want, at no cost, and it is better data, best data, data you ain’t never seen before, and never knew existed.

If I want to buy or sell anything audio related, I go to Hifishark. Period. Full Stop.

Availability, trending, pricing via region, number of items per region, in the now and in the past, all malleable.

It’s an audio sniper’s paradise. Hence the name. Shark. The high end audio sniping blood churn. the poll over 300 websites, continuously, for audio related pricing, and now have an extensive back record of old pricing, so the data set is complete. the only place they have no data on, is facebook, a closed system. One of the few if not the only one...where they are big enough to hide their data and not suffer consequence, and don't care. That's ok, I would not urinate on the best part of facebook. Die facebook, die. please. make the world a better place. apologies for the digression.

It also works perfectly for the casual buyer or seller who just wants to get with what is going on and simply buy or sell one item -- with the least hassle. To get that one bit of marketing research to be centric, to be properly functional and connected to what they are doing.