Suggested NEW CATEGORIES

Don't know about the TABLE RADIOS but separate section for PHONO PREAMPS will be greatly appreciated or as subsection of ANALOGUE.

Vintage would appeal to many, table radios much less so. An analogue section would be great too.
I'd like to see a whole different category added to the Classifieds, a place where you can place your items for sale at a fixed price with a "no haggle" policy. So...Audiogon would have a section for dealer demos and the like, a section for auctions, a section for best offers, and another with fixed pricing. It would sure lighten the load on returning lowball emails that waste everyone's time. Maybe introducing another method of selling/buying would be considered too confusing but I for one would much prefer to buy and sell on a fixed price basis. Let the lowballers troll the "best offer" and "auctions areas" and leave the rest of us alone. Anyone else agree?

I was looking for a catagory where my posts would be more appropriate. I was thinking "Audio BS" or something a little more snappy that would encompass all flavors of self-important ranting. (we can think of it as therapy)

Any suggestions would be appreciated.

Sincerely, I remain

Jeff, can't you just leave the "obo" off your sale item? Perhaps I'm a rude dude, but if someone shot me a lowball offer on an ad I posted that didn't say "obo," I'd feel no compulsion to grace their message with a reply...

It seems to me that both "vintage" and "table radios" would require pictures to have much value, and I mean inside and out pics. So much of these categories are really all about depends greatly on appearance. With pics, these categories could be interesting, but I don't know how viable.

I like Jeff's idea of fixed price listings with the intent of eliminating "lowballers and haggling", but again what would stop someone from making "an offer", eg I have listed items as "firm" price but still almost ALWAYS get offers. To make this really work, A'Gon would almost have to have a "promise" or contract from the seller that the item can only be sold at the seller's specific price. And that would mean a highly sought after item can't sell for more either. Something like that could be attractive to me if implementable?

Re Clueless, I do like the idea of a more casual, informal chatroom section, which is what Audiogon used to be like-- sort of, but A'Gon found that "unpalatable". Were you around during those hot and heated days Clueless? While some casual banter "around the topic of audio?" appeals to me, I don't know how it could be structured to keep away from the insulting, profane, threats of violence, questioning of members ancestry, parentage etc.

Hopeful but skeptical? Craig