Do you love the new AG Restrictions on communicating with all sellers al the time?


All the countless psy. studies indisputably affirm emotional intelligence is completely required to persuade/sell/negotiate. Is that helping or hurting with now having to give your cc every single time you communicate with a seller for any reason?  Does it increase friendliness & civility or go the opposite direction?  Does it kill the impulse buy or have negligible effect?  Is it in any meaningful way part of the ugliness of the world or perhaps a part of the solution/antidote?

Does it also appreciably send people to US Audiomart which is completely free of any of this on top of being actually...100% free? 

AG’s feelings toward members must be ascertained by the explanations made concerning this or effort to prepare them in advance (Zero)?  What do you suppose they might be?  I’ll defer to veteran AGers to give their informed, considered opinion on al this.  Is this the feature they appear to be implying it is & no kind of bug whatsoever?

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AG used to be better then eBay or Amazon. How can buyers not now go to competitor sites to get a substantially better chance of potential buyers expressing some interest in the first place - far more frequently leading to a sale? That they are far cheaper or free amplifies this. Clear, posted warnings would've served everyone better, yes?

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Think is so that thier’s no cheating AG out of thier cut? Ebay takes 13%. I’ll stick w/ AG. 

Do I love it?  No absolutely not.  I am a bit old fashioned.  I like to chat and talk to the person I am buying something from over the phone.   Do I understand it!  Absolutely.   Audiogon DOES provide a service.  It gives Audiophiles a site to see and discuss Audio gear.   Like it or not that is not a free service.  Someone is paying for it.   You can either accept It or move on to other sites.  That is the simple laws of the free market!

Chuck makes a fundamental point about communication & about its absence being at a very bare minimum an irritant here.  One he absolutely does not like. Nor should he or most.  No one is asking for it to be free, just not counterproductively self sabotaging in ways no other site is. Or done w/o consulting its (I assumed) valuable customer base. The customer should be right at least most of the time. Not here & the preowned audio buying ecology is going to suffer as a result. He's also correct that AGers can move to other sites, which means its a matter of when rather then if.