HAVE ALL SALES STOPPED ON AUDIOGON ???

I haven't been all that active a buyer/seller on the A'gon for some time now.  My most recent acquisition was a trade up of my ARC Ref 5SE to the Ref 6.  I did the flip with an ARC dealer.  The Ref 6 was a broken-in dealer demo (610 hours).  The main advantage was convenience of being able to swing 2 units in one deal.  

Did I lose money by going through the dealer?  Probably, … but the convenience factor was hard to beat.  I've done the buy/sell thing on A'gon many times.  Making the buy and sell deals, followed up with the schlepps to a local FedEx or UPS store just got old for me, ... because I am getting old. ;)

Just saying.

BIF

When I buy used, I generally choose gear that I know is coveted by some portion of audiophiles, and I jump fast on a really great price when I find one. That way I can be reasonably confident of re-selling if necessary. And I always go in simply expecting to have paid some level of expense to acquire the gear.  I’m not concerned with getting every penny back when re-selling. I had ten years of use out of my MBL speakers so I have no problem selling them for somewhat less than I bought them. Basically, when I re-sell, I want it gone quick.When I find the lowest previous sale price I often put mine a bit lower so I can always alert "lowest price."

Certainly worked again for selling my MBL speakers. In less than 2 days I’ve had 36 offers for outright buying them, almost no tire-kicking or low-balling.


Someone is picking them up today - I sold for over asking price.

I would opine that the latest snafu via PayPal may very well be a death blow for future sales here.

Not a rosy picture.

https://forum.audiogon.com/discussions/what-just-happened-to-accepting-paypal-looks-like-they-are-tr...

Pretty much deadsville on any sales platform right now no matter HOW cheap you make it.

Good luck to anybody who desperately needs to sell something to raise cash.

The flipside is that if you do have some spare cash to burn it truly is a dream buyers market!

As to the right pricing strategy, it has worked in the past for me to Raise my price. Otherwise, the product might be considered lousy.