What is going on? No-one buys good stuff priced right.

Yeah, well, if fewer people upgrade and fewer start building their systems..we'll have the situation we do.

tonykay;  I don't know.  I have no problem letting a person into my home to hear the item for sale after they have made an offer.  That way I'm sure I'm dealing with a serious person as opposed to a lookie loo.

If they are interested in purchasing that particular item and make and offer, my sole responsibility after that (if they want to come by to hear it work) is to make sure it is working as I advertised it and the prove to the buyer that it is working.

There is lots of equipment for sale.  The real issue is whether a particular person is interested in that particular piece.  Sometimes it takes awhile to find the right buyer.

This is true for most equipment.  Cars, watches, art, etc.  The right buyer has to see the advertisement or item for sale.  If they don't, then the item will sit for awhile. 

It is important to not be desperate to sell something.  Patience is key, along with pricing the item correctly in the first place.

enjoy

Just got from estates a fully functioning flagship giant of vintage Japanese high-end Sansui AU-20000 complete with box and service manuals AND schematics!!!

WHATANAWESOMEPIECEOFGEARINDEED!

I think I've fallen in love again. It's an upgrade to most of integrated amps EVER built before. 

Features:
Fully adjustable MM/MC phonostages with load impedance and capacitance.
fully adjustable input levels of every input individually!
low noise floor and incredible dynamic control. 
switchable triple tone control -- got poor recordings, well, hey, no problem!
adjustable VU meters scale.
200wpc of continues power over the whole operating frequency bandwidth
internally switchable preamp out and poweramp in

Hey who wants to drag race with me hah?

Oh man, you are doing time travel again.

minorl,

The experience I described in my post doesn't really fit your scenario. The price being asked seemed reasonable, and I was willing to buy. I just wanted to be sure that the piece wasn't damaged in some way as the price seemed very reasonable. The seller gave me a story about being too busy to allow anyone to demo his headphones. I think he just wanted someone to send him the money, and not ask any questions, which is fine for me. If I hit the buy button, I would have been committed to buying which I may not have wanted to do based on a demo, if the piece was damaged. Then I would have to deal with negative feedback here on Audiogon. Since he was local, I thought a demo was a reasonable request. Apparently, the seller disagreed.