Years ago, back in the late '90's & 2000's, I did a ton of buying & selling on audiogon. That's when it seemed waaaay easier to buy & sell used gear, & just keep changing your system w/o losing too much in $ terms.
I've done a lot of buying & selling on ebay also. I think buying is better than selling there for expensive audio gear. My current 2 mint condition Bryston amps I bought on ebay, at fair or even great prices. Also my Nord Electro 3 keyboard. And I just bought a used Pioneer DV-45A DVD/SACD player on feebay for $75 w/free shipping that I just unpacked & seems in mint condition.
The last expensive audio component that I "sold" on feebay was a Cary pre-amp for $1800. Almost immediately the buyer started driving me nuts with email after email insisting that it was going to be destroyed in shipping, even tho it had the best packing I've ever seen. Finally we agreed to cancel the sale. I put it on AA (for free) & after a few months sold it (semi) locally
for $1500 CASH, in person, not paypal. I live about an hour from Boston, so I have access to that market.
Oh, yeah, & a few years ago I sold a mint pair of B&W N805 speakers that I listed on CL in about a day it seems like. I didn't have the boxes so didn't want to ship. The buyer was a Nut & 2 hours late, then wanted to "audition" them for an hour or 2 but he finally coughed up the $1500 in, again, CASH.
I've done a lot of buying & selling on ebay also. I think buying is better than selling there for expensive audio gear. My current 2 mint condition Bryston amps I bought on ebay, at fair or even great prices. Also my Nord Electro 3 keyboard. And I just bought a used Pioneer DV-45A DVD/SACD player on feebay for $75 w/free shipping that I just unpacked & seems in mint condition.
The last expensive audio component that I "sold" on feebay was a Cary pre-amp for $1800. Almost immediately the buyer started driving me nuts with email after email insisting that it was going to be destroyed in shipping, even tho it had the best packing I've ever seen. Finally we agreed to cancel the sale. I put it on AA (for free) & after a few months sold it (semi) locally
for $1500 CASH, in person, not paypal. I live about an hour from Boston, so I have access to that market.
Oh, yeah, & a few years ago I sold a mint pair of B&W N805 speakers that I listed on CL in about a day it seems like. I didn't have the boxes so didn't want to ship. The buyer was a Nut & 2 hours late, then wanted to "audition" them for an hour or 2 but he finally coughed up the $1500 in, again, CASH.