Why do people selling on E Bay "USE" Audiogon?

What difference does it make? Ebay doesn't make a particular seller riskier than audiogon or vice versa. One can rip you off just as easily here as there. The auctions are run a little differently, but I don't think differences are that big of a deal. Emailing is the same, the players are the same, but the soothing yellow, sadly, is absent from Ebay. There may be a price advantage of one site over the other depending on model, but that's about it fo me. I really hate auctions, though. I have little common sense, so please tell me if there is some other reason to want to win at one place over the other.

Please realize that with a seller advertising here, merely comparing an ebay v. audiogon seller becomes meaningless. One could sell at either place and their ethics would stay the same. In order to make any decent guess as to the upstandingness of a gon/bay seller, you would have to explore the motivation as to why someone would ad here and sell at ebay. Anyone who intends on scamming surely knows that a ripoff here has roughly the same (i.e. no) consequence as at ebay. Its really just that they want the more money. The items I have seen advertised here and sold at ebay are mid-fi models that will go for more at ebay, but might hold interest for audiogon audiophiles. Like if I was wanting to sell a pair of B&Ws, I sure as hell would go to ebay, and for $2 little dollars more, might advertise here. If I was going to rip someone off, I would probably sell here b/c the "punishment" at agon is a little easier to get around. I like audigon better as well (especially b/c ebay is soo limited for hifi), but I don't think that is the central issue.