Used audio market appears to be collapsing

@grannyring 

We are finding and righting all kinds of waste and fraud and nothing is ever wrong with that

This a joke, right? Do you understand that all the DOGE cuts are actually costing way more than they save in the short, mid and long term? (Not to mentioned the millions of lives it will soon cost) Alcatraz, retrofitting the Quatar 747 bribe, trump’s golf and sport event visit trips each cost way more than any of the budget cuts saved. Let alone, freedom of speech has become freedom of praising trump. Every other opinion is being punished.

I really wanted to avoid politics but your delusional rant needed a response. 

How to ruin a perfectly good thread. Interject politics. 🤡

+1@hbarrel

I think spending on audio is softening. Many guys are buying this gear without sharing real costs, and when important things start costing more and the portfolio is shakey, those 4 year old speakers start sounding better.

Like all other markets audio ebbs and flows. I remember you could hardly find anything worthwhile on the used market during covid. I sold a few items at top dollar. Once the gates opened people started churning, now the market if flooded. There are only a few brands to my knowledge with significant wait times, so if you are selling one of those you are good.

There are only a few brands to my knowledge with significant wait times, so if you are selling one of those you are good

that's the marketing gold, to make limited quantities to keep a brand exclusive and yet sell enough to make a profit. Or when millions of people think they are in a very select few thousand. 

+1 @hbarrel 

If this forum is to be believed many folks are downsizing, presumably selling 15 or 20 used components and buying 3 or 4 brand new ones.

Same deal with all the so-called "retirement" and "endgame" systems. All these folks have exited the used market and are not returning.