Thank you for your observations, encouragements, and taking the time to respond. I live in CA and had a willing buyer in CO but the required palleted shipping would be over $1K so that ended that possible transaction. I am an economist so I get that as there will be a price at which they will sell, but it frustrates me that such excellent speakers can't command even 50% of their retail price. I am gonna take a bath on these, for sure, and it leads me to this conclusion: I just bought a pair of used BMR Philharmonic Monitors for 80% of their retail value and was real happy to get them. Yet, lesser-known gear gets short shrift in the after-market and given my love of switching gear around from time to time, it's now is something I will give more consideration to with future gear acquisitions. I have bought dozens of pieces of audio gear, often used, and I have the distinction of getting a buttdart 100% of the time when I flip gear, and no situation will be more costly to me than with my Cube speakers. I shouldn't complain as I see gear for sale on this forum with far far deeper discounts that I thought imaginable. It's a buyer's market.