Do you remember when Audiogon was just a bulletin board classified ad site?

Heck, I can't even remember when I joined here.

I joined the site back in 98 or 99 too. I remember some really cool guys back then, somebody named Sean who knew a lot, a guy named Bill (?) who was great on the forums as well. I bought a lot of jazz LPs from a guy named Scott and I still listen to them. There were about 75 LPs all treated with First and Last and I love them! Hand picked and curated by Scott, who had Vandersteen 2c and sub.

I remember the beginning and I remember Arnie in Ann Arbor!

Love these old war stories. Yes, I subscribed to the old Audio Mart circular too, and recall waiting for it with bated breath.
It came every two weeks, right?

Also, remember when there were for sale ads in the back of Stereophile, Audio, and other magazines? I recall placing some ads in those circulars myself.

I remember in the mid 80's stumbling on some little ad in the back of Audio magazine for a company called Reel to Real Designs. Talking with a budding manufacturer named Bill Duddleston, and his father, on the phone several times, and Bill mailing me out a huge packet of literature. The literature was the first time I was hearing names like Vandersteen, Apogee, etc., and for me, began the transition from midfi to hifi. At the time Bill was building speakers out of his garage, and I was running a pair of Altec Lansing 9's with a gulp, Denon receiver.

Bill has sinced changed his companies name to Legacy Audio, and gone on to have some pretty big success. No more tiny 2-3 line ads in the back of audio journals, full page ads now in the glossy rags.

Those were the days.........

Cheers,
John

Love these old war stories. Yes, I subscribed to the old Audio Mart circular too, and recall waiting for it with bated breath.
It came every two weeks, right?

Yes, IIRC it sometimes came every two weeks or so, and sometimes a little less frequently.  My impression was that it was published whenever enough ads were accumulated to fill an issue. 

I suspect that was the underlying reason for Walt's objection that I mentioned above to an ad having an asking price he felt was too high.  He probably didn't want members initially asking too much and then making repeated submissions of the same ad at progressively lower asking prices, which would result in him having to publish more frequently, which would increase his publishing costs correspondingly.

Best regards,
-- Al