The Link is an advisory and gives a known sale price Vintage used and current.
https://vintage-turntable.com/oracle-delphi.html
The Link gives a wider overview of the used Market
https://www.hifishark.com/search?q=oracle+iv
The TT and the supporting ancillaries used with it. Might be worth more if Tonearm and Cartridge are sold separately.
Watch the Market for a period, there is enough info supplied to enable that to occur, it won't be ling before the ideal sales strategy for your own needs is realized.
Audio Equipment is Fragile and does not travel well, do not believe that each sale ends with a Happy Customer. Many used Item Sales with a Postage included, have an end outcome that was not expected by the inexperienced Vendor.
Experienced Vendors have their own Steely Approach, each are honed with defences used.
Note: There are certain methods for making Payments that are secure, especially the ones available as a Payment Portal on a Sales Site, but the Vendor has no protection of any Value, the whole thing is loaded to the Customer Protection and monies are as good as a guaranteed return if a dispute arises. which they do do.
Hypothesis: Apologies for the following but for a large variety of sale items in recent and the current used sale market. It has happened, is happening, awaiting to happen.
Vendor has much enjoyed and cared for TT > TA > Cart' and decides it is timely to offer them for sale.
A Customer see's Sales Ad and recognises the TA is a like for like model of their own one that does not function no longer in a way that makes it useable.
Customer sees the Opportunity to address their issue with their own TA, but does come with a short term parting with monies to initiate.
Customer Purchases, makes their Specific Concerns known, especially about Postage in communications that are readable by Payment Portal Administrators and then Pays through Payment Portal. The One that is loaded towards their protection when making a Purchase.
Customer receives Goods, knowing they have the COMFORT ZONE OF SIX WEEKS ( SIX WEEKS ) to Create a Dispute and demand a Refund.
Six Weeks to strip a perfectly good TA and turn a not do good TA into a Saleable Item of a now increased Value of say 400% Appreciated - $400 up to $1600 for the cost of what might have been $80 Shipping if they did pay the shipping.
There is also the likelihood if no Serial No's are involved a straight swap out might occur.
What next: Vendor who received 'great guy' review as a Smokescreen 'x amount' of weeks on the past. Is now to receive a 'not such a great guy' notification.
The Customer is now reporting the TA has been subjected to Transit Damages, concerns for this was made known, prior to my paying and requesting a special approach for the packaging, it has taken time to fully identify there is a damage caused by Transit.
Goods are being returned and a full refund id required.
The Vendor now knows One Thing for Sure - Monies Realized are Temporary and those trusted to process the funds for the sale, only have ears for the Purchasers side the story.
New Vendor has now new discoveries to be made, one never foreseen.
The Tonearm sent is no longer the same Value as the one returned, they might be losing $800 - $1200, when working out the new sale price.
The Items in the Package might come back in the same Package, but secured within the Package very different to the methodology used for the sent items. This is done to suggest this is how it was received. This is the second element to the cruelness of what is being done, as the entirety of the returned items are now at risk of all incurring a Transit Damage and seriously being a cause of additional damages to all contained items causing a further devaluation of the new resale value.
A $4K sale after the type of Customer being found above being the Purchaser, has the potential to leave a Vendor with goods they don't know how to price, and end up hoping to see them as a second attempt as sale to realize $1K.
Meeting a Customer and Taking a Direct Payment into a Account as a Bank to Bank Transfer is the assured way to not have monies torn away from oneself shortly after a a sale occurring.
I once done a 400 Mile Round Trip to meet a Customer and sell a Sony TTS 8000 to avoid these abuses being used, my time and fuel money wasted was the loss, if the sale was not closed won by myself.
Even crazier, I sold a Professional Telephoto Prime Lens to a Customer who I have not ever known and who visited my home to see the Lens.
The Customer had forgot their Banking Info and could not Pay.
When they arrived home they paid the full monies into my Account, now I had the Lens and the Monies ??
It was to be two weeks before we could arrange a interception between ourselves for the Lens to handed over.
In general meeting Face to Face is where trust is really to be found, and Paying without a using a Payment Portal that offers Buyer Protection in such circumstances underscores the notion things going on are trustworthy.
