Is ebay feedback worth anything on Audiogon?

Yeah, thanks Kurt. I usually type slow but this morning I had to think before I typed (not always the case as some of you know from my previous posts). :))

ebay feedback doesn't carry much weight with me.

There are two sides to every coin Kurt. I am a relative newbee to Audiogon despite being an audiophile for decades. I can remeber a dozen years ago or so I had to pour over the pages of Stereo review, Audio and Stereophile to find any possible source of vintage tubes to try in AR preamp. Results were spotty but indicated there may be gold out there somewhere. Six months ago I tried that experiment again and was able to bring in top flight NOS Bugle Boys, Telefunken Cca, Siemens Cca, Amperex PQ yadda yadda from all over the world via eBay. Stay with great feedback and every transaction was perfect. Kept what I wanted and resold the rest, again on eBay, zero problems. My own feedback is 100% there and it means something to me and to sellers IMHO. I have done one transaction on Audiogon and checked the sellers rep on eBay before I even contacted him. Nothing in life is cast in stone but if you have 1293 positive feedbacks with 99.9% positive it means a lot to me about who I am doing business with.

I actually have been burned twice on audiogon and only once on eBay. I would agree though the quality of people and goods here is far superior to the internet yard sale of ebay. You can get a deal now and then on ebay but I feel the risk is greater.

As far as no feedback folks - I will ask them to ship the product to me and pay then after reciept based on the fact that I have an established reputation and they do not. I have done this twice with success on audiogon but never on ebay.

It can help, but there is no difinative answer. AND you can trust me on that one, I'm honest, as my feedback indicates. If my AudiogoN feedback doesn't convince you, check my feedback on Ebay.