My experience here has been good, but the last few / several years I've been driven away because:
- High fees: higher than, and IN ADDITION TO, PayPal's, and
- The stifled communication between buyer & seller when you don't pay the fee up front (i.e. total loss if your listing doesn't sell).
The other place usam is simply a superior system with no fees (for most hobbyists). Compare the traffic of the 2 - agon's listings have been dwindling each year, and a lot of them are spamming by dealers trying to unload a warehouse full of their crap (like cables). A lot of the remaining "decent" listings are by TMR (The Music Room) - just go to TMR's own site, and search / buy there!
The other place has much more daily traffic, and generally more interesting listings. But the market in general feels slow this summer. I guess our hobby got a little bump from covid days, and that's gone now.
The low-ballers have always been around (my policy is to ignore them), along with guys who don't have the money now but "really want it". What gets me is I have a track record of 100% feedback, and always supply ample pics and description to my ad, always rate condition accurately, and would never sell inoperable junk - but inevitably I always get asked if there are any operational problems or scratches / gouges in the item, as if I've been insidiously hiding that somehow. I guess the age group of this hobby was raised to consider a paint scratch as the worst sin possible. Not as big a deal to me (unless it's a front faceplate), but I look for and state any such issues upfront nonetheless.