Experiences Selling Stuff On Audiogon?

I just sold two items through US Audiomart and have bought several items there too. It's always been a great experience and no fees.

Also have bought through Agon with no issues but never sold. Everyone I know locally primarily uses the former.

As of now there are 8,943 ads on AudiogoN and they support a forum. AudioMart USA has 10,844 ads on now with no forum. Not all ads are free.

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How much does it cost to use US Audio Mart?

US Audio Mart listings are FREE for all casual users. There are certain value added features which do cost money, but the basic classified listings are free to post for hobbyists who don’t earn a revenue buying, selling, trading, or offering services related to hifi.

US Audio Mart is covering the cost of providing this service by selling advertising on the site, asking non casual users to support the site with a small yearly fee, and offering value add features like Highlighted Ads, Featured Ads, and commission based "Buy It Now", and Invoice Payments services. Your support of our sponsors or by purchasing a banner ad for your business, and your usage of our optional value add features will keep US Audio Mart going. If you are using the site to list more than 7 classifieds a month, you will be asked to support us by paying a small fee, but otherwise, all hobby users will always list classifieds for free.

For more details on the value added fee based services on the site, please see here.

What I don't understand is that AM and for quite a while Audiogon did not charge any fees. How do/did they exist? Where did the revenue come from for operating costs?

Today, if AM can function with no fees why can't Audiogon?

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Ebay and audiogon are terrible... they both have really high selling fees and customer service at audiogon is particularly poor. They were purchased by a group out of South Carolina a few years ago and have gone downhill ever since then. A lot of people are leaving this site.

I know Ebay is terrible, but how has your experience selling gear on Audiogon been? I have some stuff that’s too high-end for the market I live in, and so I gotta cast the net wider. Not looking forward to the potential hassle 

I got this,..

i agree completely with mitch and roxy

Gon 👍🏼, especially for high end equipment. eBay was disappointing. 

Here or USAM are both just fine.  Treat people the way you would want to be treated and you should do well.  However, there are always potential risks that have been well-covered in these threads, like shipping big speakers.  There is a lot you can read and learn here.

I've never had a problem with a transaction on USAM and I've bought and sold quite a few times. There are plenty of tire kickers of course, but that's the case everywhere.

I stopped using Useless Audio Mart since I kept getting rogue buyers who never responded to my acceptance of their offers or they never paid after they told me the payment was upcoming.  Yes, AG charges a lot but you get what you pay for.  At AG and Ebay if you make a formal offer it is considered a contract, rightly so.

all these sales platforms have user data and feedback, so it behooves one to look at that, see the track record of whom they are dealing with 

you can't fake a long positive track record and excellent feedback

+1 @jayctoy   TMRaudio will market and sell your items on consignment.It's well worth the reasonable fee for not having to deal with scammers or shipping damage claims.And yes,back in the day it was easy and fun buying and selling here.

I've bought and sold on Agon and USAM for years and even bought a few times on eBay, and I've not had any problems with any transactions. 

Way back in the day audiogon was the best place to sell. Honest hobbyists, great deals it was more like a library of audio products you could buy try and resell without much loss. Now all have to get a cut of your sales $$ scammers abound, and many of the good folks left while the rest stayed. I don’t sell here anymore.

How about TMRAUDIO.com?

Prefer USAM reasonable fees and high traffic. 

I concur it’s better than ebay. Ebay uses funky algorithms that "take dive" deep into audits and if you are unlucky (very most likely could be your personal information that matches with past problems that could occur to someone else), you will get problems from digital bugs that will REALLY BITE HARD your account to the point of eating it to the bare bones. My 33 years in IT clearly see that especially with new Ebay accounts. New accounts always get BASHED for reason or no reason by those audit algorithms and are very hard to develop to the stable performance even before you get any feedback.

No problems with Audiogon per se, but plenty of problems with shipping companies damaging items.

I don't know why people bash eBay. I have done over 5000 transactions in over 20 years, (as a seller) in many categories with only 6 minor problems. Since you are a newbie, with no feedback, it might be a bit of a challenge getting your feet wet here. I certainly would try it though.

AGON as a platform is just fine, but there are other audio forums that are as good or better IMO. Think CANUCKAUDIOMART and USAUDIOMART. In addition to a comparable reach, they won’t dip into your pocket for a cut of the sales proceeds.

I’ve had a few AGON deals with no complaints and 51 EZPZ flawless deals to date on CAM/ USAM ….And no IRS income tax reporting for the latter.

Vetting all prospective buyers vis-a-vis their posted positive feedback (or not…) in any audio forum listing is key. There are many “problem” types out there …. Yes, they DO walk among us.

Selling on Audigon has been a very good experience assuming you don't mind giving them their %. Definitely a higher-end location to advertise.