Best place to sell high end audio equipment?

b_limo

It appears TMR has black listed me because I haven’t accepted any of their last 10 (or so) low ball offers ... their offers have been insulting and they seem to get pretty upset “wasting” their time when I won’t accept their lowball offer.

This is just a business transaction, so I don’t know why you’d consider their offers "insulting." You can simply walk away if you don’t like the offer.

I would gladly have accepted 35-40% of the retail price for my mint condition, less than 5 year old equipment.

Of course! But that’s retail. TMR has overhead and other costs and will resell your equipment, so they’ll be paying you wholesale.

... I imagine if they keep lowballing enough inquiries it will deservingly effect their business in negative ways ...

It doesn’t look like they’re lowballing you. They’re offering you wholesale.

I just send message to them for my trade in, see what happen? I won’t take it personal if it’s too low.😀

Honestly they do have used fair price on their listings, good experience buying from them though.

 @b_limo 

When you think about the numbers relative to preowned audio gear...if I list something on Audiogon or a similar site....I'm probably going to get somewhere in the 50-60% of retail price for a less than 10 year old, still in demand, great condition piece. 


That means that if I sent it to an intermediary...who will then try to resell it at somewhere in the 60-70% of retail range....there is no way they are going to offer me more than 25-30%....and I pay the return shipping to them so I actually net less.

I see it as a trade off....lower price for certainty and no post sale hassle...for some people it is worth it....for others, not so much.

Their used prices are fair most of the time.  I’ve sold 30-40 pieces to them at fair prices, then I started going lower until the offers became similar to craigslist lowballers.  My last 10-20 offers I rejected because they were too low.  YMMV