HAVE ALL SALES STOPPED ON AUDIOGON ???

Audio products age....to dysfunction and minimal value.  Tube heat damages things. Caps age out..  Resistors crack.  Speaker composition ages.  I will buy great older equipment  IF it  is cheap enough to justify the parts and time for eventual needed restoration. 
But the state of the art of new "cheaper high end" ( not talking mass crap) really is great for the money. There really IS tech progress for the money. Just like with cars. So unless you just LOVE the old mojo of an old McIntosh (or Porsch/GTO), and this is a very tiny group at least with the bucks,  the prices aked just do not compute. Like others say, it is just the market.
Oh yes. The ridiculous claims and pseudo science are part of what has turned off potential newer younger audiophiles. I talk to them a lot in my job and hobby life. Comes home to roost.

+1 glupson.
High initial price and then the obvious suspicion it wasn't as great as hoped for, else why sell so soon. Very big discount off new- maybe worth the risk. Smallish discount - not. It's that kind of world.

Uberwaltz, it is not a pointless thread if it helps some understand the realities of the current market.  The 'give to charity" is always a nice option. They will of course usually turn it over at the fast sale market price. (And an occasional lucky audiophile will benefit along with the charity) Occasionally a group home,  community service for the aged or arts oriented charity might use equipment as is.