charliee, what would you call your own post ?
Anybody having trouble getting near-your-asking-price for used gear ? (Plz. no hype)
I buy and sell gear "on a whim" and have done so for 40 years. Mostly high-end tube stuff that I get an itch to move from my rig to make room for other high-end stuff that I have been dreaming of. It's fun and gives me a fresh faces to fall in and out of love with.
Lately I am having a really hard time getting any serious offers above 1/4 to 1/3 of retail- actually zero offers over that. And winter is the time of year gear sells. Once the sun comes out things get really quiet. Not terribly long ago I could ask 50% of retail and get serious offers pretty close to the ask.
I am especially having trouble selling ARC gear. It's prices are steadily collapsing. On HiFi Shark that stuff sits for close to a year (or more) before it moves. For example SP 15s are under 2K now. They were selling (not asking) at 3K a year ago. It took me almost a year to sell a new-in--box I/50 for $3000 (!) Ref 75s are moving under $3000 and TMR will only offer 2K for one of them. The older stuff is selling in the hundreds not the thousands. Top-Of the-line stuff like Reference 10 preamps are moving under 12K (asking is around 17K)
I recently sold a Bryston BR-20 brand new in the box and it took me 7 months to get 48% of MSRP. This is NEW stuff- not somebody's junk.
My guy at Magnepan told me their stuff is really moving slowly as well. He blamed it on the political environment. ARC is pretending all is well but I have a little birdie inside there that tells me their stuff is stagnant as and dealers are actually cancelling orders.
Now, assuming you are being honest and not "fluffing the market" with bullbleep because you have something for sale and hoping for the greater fool, are you seeing/experiencing the same thing I am experiencing?
NO RETAILERS PLESASE- you guys tend to "exaggerate" to put it kindly- plus most of us here at AG know who you are and your 1000s of posts are a big clue.
Signed/ Depressed about my favorite side gig.
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Pretty sure when people talk about making America great again its the 1950’s they are referring to except maybe reverse the rhetoric when it comes to Russia and any old USSR aspirations to be great again there. AH the good old days of ducking under desks for air raid drills, measles, etc..... Hey I was a naive kid then which (in hindsight) was pretty great and guess what: here I still am except a crankier old guy still yapping about hifis.....whoda thunk it?
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@charliee totally. I understand that's how you feel. Under today's rules you can't make someone go away (free speech and stuff) so you need to change the rules. |
Brand name cabling is still a pretty easy sell at 50% of new. I sold a bunch of tweaks …footers and vibration stuff at 50% in a few days. Loudspeakers seem to be the toughest. Couldnt get 40% for mint condition still current model Personas. Ended up trading them in at Next Level Hi Fi and the sold them for 2500 more that I was asking for 5 mos on the other selling site. They offer financing which a private seller cannot. Big difference with high ticket items. |
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