too bad Audiogon seems to have morphed to fussy, picky buyers

FM tuners are a hard sell these days

Maybe there will be a tuner resurgence like vinyl.

Been here since early 2000s and I feel there’s always been this element to the user base, and it’s not really that much worse these days. I think maybe you had a lucky streak for a while and then hit an unlucky streak.

I’ve had really good transactions in my time here, but as I buyer I rarely haggle, never tire kick, and hold back minor complaints (this is USED gear after all); as a seller I’m picky in whom I choose to respond to. I judge them on the style and content of their initial communication, and often don’t feel the need to take things further.

It is a hassle to sell used audio equipment.  And it is getting harder to sell high-end components at a fair price because the market for high end equipment is shrinking.

I hear and feel the pain
Been on ebay since the early days 2000 or so and it has NEVER been as depressing and volatile as a seller as the last couple of years have wrought.
So many "buyers" who think they can just claim they never received it ( despite tracking info!) or it was defective etc.
Paypal instant refund to them and they dont even have to ship it back!

Now I have been VERY lucky here, a lot of good sellers and buyers I have dealt with but.....
This year for sure had some VERY dubious potential buyers wanting a very fairly priced item for peanuts to start with AND giving bad vibes right from the start. This has happened 3 times and all 3 I have just told them I prefer not to sell anything to them as just not worth my time and potential hassle.
A couple got enraged over that and had to end up blocking them and reporting them to admin.

For sure it is a buyers market, always has been to some extent but the rudeness and arrogance that is increasingly common now is very hard to deal with.

I spent 40 years in the Real Estate business. It always amazed me when buyers wanted to start nitpicking and renegotiating their deal half way through escrow. It was especially bad during my last ten years in the business. I just chalked it up to the constant slide downward that our civil society has taken.

The days of doing business on a hand shake are long gone. 

Frank