How will the COVID-19 pandemic affect sites like Audiogon?


One would think that with social distancing and shelter in place policies, there has never been a better time for upgrading and enjoying your audio system.   But is now the time to buy and sell?  The mass unemployment and economic distress accompanying the pandemic seems certain to undermine what is essentially a luxury market encompassing both gearheads and music lovers?  What effects on buying and selling audio gear — both short and long term — can we foresee?
merlin
@simao Thanks, its a great place, you just have to be able to enjoy the winters, skiing, snowshoeing, skidooing and the like.  I am looking out the window and still have patches of snow.  I love it here.

Hey stereo5, I have been reading your posts for 15 years or more years, and I assumed a familiarity that I probably should not have, sorry man, wishing you and yours the total best.
George
@jetter The girl I dated before I met my wife still lives in Chittenden and I spent many a happy winter and summer weekend up there.
While I don't disagree that things are going to get super ugly on unemployment, I think your 40% is a bit over the top. Even during the worst of the Great Depression unemployment topped at 25%.

@three_easy_payments

Please, please please, please.  Let this be the biggest over-estimation I've ever made.
nonoise, I am a very sensitive person, but the constant liberal drivel about how F. U. our response has been doesn't sit well with me. I am an independent, so no bias one way or the other. A month ago no one really saw this hitting the U.S. like it did, arm chair quarterbacking is always 20 20. Otherwise a lot of us would have deep 6'd our stock holdings.
I knew back in January this was going to happen and so did most of the informed in the news gathering media. Tons of people knew.

I'm kind of a news junkie and it wasn't the constant liberal drivel about our F.U. response. The criticism came directly from the center, as well as center left, left, and center right.  It's brainwashing like that, that keeps us divided. Chalk it all down to bothsiderism, which negates the true center's voice and leaves us fighting amongst ourselves, which is the intended result.

As for being an independent, that's kind of like saying one is a libertarian, or a green party member. It's the Swiss answer to everything: hey, I'm the neutral party here and don't really have a position so I'm the reasonable one. 

I appreciate that you apologized as this is some pretty F.U .stuff we're in and we'll all go through it in one form or another. But make no mistake, one side went to great lengths to downplay this and ridicule those who sounded the alarm and now they have the audacity to say they always thought it was dire even though there's a video record of them saying otherwise.

All the best,
Nonoise

 


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