too bad Audiogon seems to have morphed to fussy, picky buyers

I'd rather trade the product in at a fair price with a reputable dealer who I'll establish a long term relationship with....

I take the product back immediately and refund rather than give concessions. I can either keep it or sell it again at my leisure, I'm never selling because I need the money so there's no pressure, just don't like dealing with the new car buyer mentality but want it at the used car price stuff....

I'm not so sure it favors buyers but that buyers are increasingly demanding and used to getting their way, same thing happened on ebay and to some extent ebay encouraged this behavior. I found it odd that as a seller with 150 sales and 100% satisfaction I"d have my payment funds held until the buyer indicated they were "satisfied" with the purchase- even though the buyer had 10 transactions to their name. I would have thought that the process would favor the party with the highest number of completed and satisfactory transactions. I think it's a combination of demanding buyers and sellers feeling bullied and not wanting to get a bad review by a demanding buyer. Some times it's better to take the hit, take the product back and post bad reviews for the difficult buyer I think. Perhaps noting that if a return happens then the buyer needs to pay for the shipping or the shipping and ten percent of the selling price etc. to discourage buyer's remorse return attempts.

yeah, no worries - I never give it away, I'm never a desparate seller and- in my exp its the very people who grind you, nag you, complain and are looking to steal something at a ridiculous price that are the worst to deal with- you can never sell it cheap enough to make them happy. The best buyers are ones who buy without a lot of haggling, pay a reasonable price and know they're buying a pre-owned (and not brand new) product. Same thing when I was in the car business.

just looked at Audioasylum for the first time based on the question above- ouch- what a convoluted site! Looks like something from 2000 or so-

My initial point was really related to the numbers of flaky buyers and then lowballing and or ones who negotiate down the price and despite seeing several photos and having a very clear and fair description of the item then nit pick and threaten to try to return or negotiate further.