Experiences Selling Stuff On Audiogon?


I know Ebay is terrible, but how has your experience selling gear on Audiogon been? I have some stuff that's too high-end for the market I live in, and so I gotta cast the net wider. Not looking forward to the potential hassle.

shane20

Selling on Audigon has been a very good experience assuming you don't mind giving them their %. Definitely a higher-end location to advertise.

AGON as a platform is just fine, but there are other audio forums that are as good or better IMO. Think CANUCKAUDIOMART and USAUDIOMART. In addition to a comparable reach, they won’t dip into your pocket for a cut of the sales proceeds.

I’ve had a few AGON deals with no complaints and 51 EZPZ flawless deals to date on CAM/ USAM ….And no IRS income tax reporting for the latter.

Vetting all prospective buyers vis-a-vis their posted positive feedback (or not…) in any audio forum listing is key. There are many “problem” types out there …. Yes, they DO walk among us.

 

I don't know why people bash eBay. I have done over 5000 transactions in over 20 years, (as a seller) in many categories with only 6 minor problems. Since you are a newbie, with no feedback, it might be a bit of a challenge getting your feet wet here. I certainly would try it though.

No problems with Audiogon per se, but plenty of problems with shipping companies damaging items.

I concur it’s better than ebay. Ebay uses funky algorithms that "take dive" deep into audits and if you are unlucky (very most likely could be your personal information that matches with past problems that could occur to someone else), you will get problems from digital bugs that will REALLY BITE HARD your account to the point of eating it to the bare bones. My 33 years in IT clearly see that especially with new Ebay accounts. New accounts always get BASHED for reason or no reason by those audit algorithms and are very hard to develop to the stable performance even before you get any feedback.