Would it be fair to say that everyone has seen a significant decline in the ability to sell your used equipment at a decent price?
Yes, the market has been a bit soft.Would it be fair to say that everyone has seen a significant decline in the ability to sell your used equipment at a decent price?
Yes. I sell this stuff. Then I can buy other stuff. How do you think you become an experienced audiophile?Wait, what? You can sell this stuff?
Yes, the market has been a bit soft.
Oh.Yes. I sell this stuff. Then I can buy other stuff. How do you think you become an experienced audiophile?
"If you really want to hear about it, the first thing you’ll probably want to know is where I was born, and what my lousy childhood was like, and how my parents were occupied and all before they had me, and all that David Copperfield kind of crap, but I don’t feel like going into it, if you want to know the truth." - Holden CaulfieldOh.
I just buy more stuff.
Thanks for the tip!
This may be the first time a class A amp may be justified. The combo of a PC and a Marantz AVR is actually heating a part of my place...Here in Belgium (and most of Europe) is a lot to offer, but no buyers, or at least no buyers who want to spend money to get a device. Everybody is watching their budget as inflation is high, energy prices are crazy and there is a war out there not so far from us that could spread out. So nobody takes financial risks, even very small ones, and buckle up for a hard winter with hope on better times next year...
I tried to sell a Luxman preamp from the good period (pre 1983) but nobody wanted to pay the price that a year ago was considered cheap. So i pulled it of the auction sites and wait untill the market is back to normal. I don't need to sell it, but i'm not using it anymore...
Exactly. I'll not pay more than 60% of current retail. It goes down from there with age/condition.People are figuring out that a new piece of gear includes a warranty and store terms of sale and that used gear includes no support. As soon as used gear has no warranty or no store terms of sale I reduce it's value by about >20% and then figure out what age it is at and what risks I am taking on by buying the gear. Because I am assuming all the risk in the used gear sale I don't want to pay too much for used gear. I have not sold used audio gear for some years so I'm not familiar with today's used market but I have sold computer gear in recent years and if it is not 1/2 to 1/3 the new price nobody even responds to the ads. People are wiser regarding electronics than they where at one time and consider electronics as throw away items so they don't want to pay much for it.
Lol... I see people stating their video card is a classic/collectible item due to some sort of special stuff about it. rflmao.I'm constantly amazed how much people think their used gear is worth.
JD Salinger lived one town south of here."If you really want to hear about it, the first thing you’ll probably want to know is where I was born, and what my lousy childhood was like, and how my parents were occupied and all before they had me, and all that David Copperfield kind of crap, but I don’t feel like going into it, if you want to know the truth." - Holden Caulfield
When you decide to sell that personally signed first edition of "Catcher in the Rye"... let me know and I'll sell everything for the down payment. Print and Audio... waiting for that mega asteroid to take its toll... so play it LOUD.
A classic example is the latest in the for sale section: A $5900 retail item - $5000 being asked. With all the risk of shipping DOA, early life problems born by the purchaser. And if anything goes wrong it's going to cost much more than that $900 (presumably less shipping) saving.Lol... I see people stating their video card is a classic/collectible item due to some sort of special stuff about it. rflmao.
I know that. That's why I thought you might have had him sign a copy for which I'd sell a kidney... at least for the down payment. Did you ever cross paths?JD Salinger lived one town south of here.