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"Junk" LP listings on audiogon - get rid of 'em

I've been a member of our community for a little more than a year and a half and in that time I have seen a slow degradation of quality in the Classified Section of audiogon - particularly in regard to LP's. I know it's a "free" listing and maybe that's the problem. There are some audiophile listings of quality items but mostly it's just junk. I think it might be an idea to set some standards for these listings. Audiophile-quality records only or maybe near-mint listings only. I'm just tired of wading through scores of "crap" listings...if I want to do that I can always log on to eBay...
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timchen
93 posts
 
yes, charge some user fee will discourage "Junk" lp listings, but canot not get rid of them. put a tap on it.
thanks
pbb
1,140 posts
 
The vinyl revival won't last, so time is on the side of all the folks here who begrudge a little space for stuff that could be picked up in garbage bins, garage sales or carted away for free a short while ago. Come to think of it, most of the vinyl on sale here probably was picked up in that way not so long ago. Maybe, as I have suggested before, renaming the site "Audiogonvinyl" would attract the right crowd (yeah, the ones with ears, I hear from the gallery...) and vinyl sales could flourish. Then another site called "Audiogondigit" could be started and everyone would live happily ever after...
timchen
93 posts
 
i buy lps from here. I do suggest we should have a separate
page for these lp listings only.
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ramond
63 posts
 
This Music for sale section needs to have a "member listing limit" and doing so would make the seller with the HUGE list condense the're limited ads.
1 ad could contain a list of 20 LP's or CD's.
I think the free ads are fine. Just stop the ones who abuse it.
Just my $.02.
Rick.
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buscis2
468 posts
 
Apply the standard advertising fee. I don't know of anybody who will pay a $2.00 fee to sell a $5.00 record or CD. That will eliminate the junk ads. It might, at that point, also increase the quality of what is being sold. But, I do think it is a great resource for recorded music.
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