Selling gear with TMR

yogiboy, let's just say I haven't checked the fee schedule lately ...  2% is very reasonable, of course at that rate you pay whether you sell or not.  The alternative is almost twice that and more in line with what I was thinking.  Still, not bad.

I recently sold two items to them and declined to sell three more items. The three I declined were way too low. One of them was DAC I bought from them a year ago, they offered less than 40% of what I paid them for it. Of the two I sold, one was an ok offer, it was a transport which has flooded the market so lots for sale and few selling. The other piece was a 30 year old tube amp that worked great. They offered $500 which I thought was probably about half what I could get for it and I did not have original packaging so I thought, oh well save me the trouble. They listed it for $1500 and it sold in a few days from their website, never made it to Audiogon. I’m pretty disillusioned with them right now …

decooney, I've sold quite a few pieces here on Audiogon in the past and they have all been good transactions.  Of late though, I've heard of sales going bad and now there are significant fees for selling so I have procrastinated on selling things.  This particular amp has been sitting in a box for about four years.  I tried to find a use for it but wasn't successful.  It was time to move it.  I had bought a couple of items from TMR and thought I should try selling.  TMR will pay to ship the items you sell to them, but this amp needed better packaging than I had so I was still hesitant.  By coincidence I was going to be in Colorado last month, so I arranged to drop the two items off (I actually had another box of misc stuff I brought along).  I would assume I saved them over $100 in shipping, the amp alone weighed about 70 pounds, but I got no credit for that.  Further, trying to arrange a drop off was overly complicated, they insisted I bring it at a particular time.  The drop off took less than five minutes and involved no paperwork.  The whole process just left me annoyed.  I will not sell to them again, not sure about buying.  It's good to hear others have had good transactions, it just didn't work out for me.