Selling collection directly in the pacific northwest?


Hey all, I have recently acquired a fairly extensive setup/collection from a family member who passed. I am looking to move on from nearly everything in the collection, and have been planning to sell through audiogon.

Is this the best way to go? Is there a local place to talk to someone directly in the pacific northwest? Shipping all of this very expensive equipment (lampizator golden gate 2, several high end carts, speakers, tone arms, etc.) seems risky btu willing to do it if it's my best option. Is it better to try to do this locally?

Even better, anyone in the northwest want to take a look?

Apologies if this is the wrong place to post, new to this site.

lizardloungerecords

I kinda get the feeling that Hawthorne Stereo is getting out of used gear... For the past few months they’ve only had few new listingsand half of them are garbage, as if they’re flipping stuff they had to take in as part of a larger deal. 

In greater Seattle, check out Gig Harbor Audio. In Portland, definitely Echo Audio. They’re a bit idiosyncratic but you’ll like them. Their pricing is realistic. There’s also Fred’s Sound of Music.

I tried to sell a few things through Echo, they are good for buyers. They offered about a third of ebay prices. TMR offers about 50-60%.

A third of ebay prices, I don’t even know what that means

 

I can help you read. Item x on ebay sells for 100 dollars. Echo would offer 55 dollars for it. TMR would offer 55 dollars. Was it hard?

I've been very happy with TMR. They pay you about 65% of what they can sell it for, depending on how you want to sell. They also send a shipping label. Very easy and pleasant, and yes, you do get less than if you sell it yourself...they are especially effective on hard to sell items...

so at this point, this thread has become a shout out to all of us in the Pacific Northwest. Hello Spokane!