[Phono-L] eBay

[wilenzick at bellsouth.net]

That's a great idea, especially since buying from other collectors adds a 
degree of safety to the transaction.  It has been tried before, with sites 
such as Intertique Classifieds or Phono-L Classified, but as far as I know 
these were not very successful.  (Comments Loran?).  But times have changed 
and with all the dissatisfaction with eBay, maybe another attempt should be 
made by someone who is web savy.  A weekly phono on-line newsletter listing 
phono items for sale, wanted, or for trade would really be nice for the 
hobby.

Ray

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Robert Wright" <esroberto at hotmail.com>
To: "Antique Phonograph List" <phono-l at oldcrank.org>
Sent: Friday, November 14, 2008 10:59 PM
Subject: Re: [Phono-L] eBay


> Bill,
>
> First let me formally thank you for your service to this country.
>
> Second, there's a website some of you may know about that caters to the 
> high-end hifi audiophile types (easy, Greg!) called AudiogoN (put a www 
> and a com with a couple of dots in there to see what it's about), and it's 
> been a godsend for me while putting together my front room system (which I 
> also use for mastering).  It's more set sales than auctions, but there's 
> plenty of those too, and quite a few dealers work through there as well.
>
> I've saved about 75% of retail on the gear in my system thanks to that 
> site. It's free of any glitzy graphics -- very utilitarian approach... 
> PayPal is welcomed but not connected/sanctioned/tied in like it is with 
> eBay, and saying in your listing that PayPal users must include an 
> additional 3% if perfectly fine.  It's grouped into categories and 
> sub-categories so you can easily find what you're looking for.  It's 
> well-known in the audiophile community and sustains itself (listing fees 
> were FAR below eBay's last time I sold something there), and when you 
> contact someone for a transaction, you exchange emails directly instead of 
> being 'monitored' by the site's powers that be.
>
> Has anyone tried, or would anyone be willing to try, setting up a site 
> like AudiogoN for phono collectors?  I'd be very suprised if there were 
> more people trading $10,000 turntables and $130,000 speakers than those of 
> us trading phonographs/parts/etc.
>
> Just a thought.  A little advertising and involvement from one Union show 
> would put it in view of a large percentage of its potential users.  Any 
> web gurus out there interested?
>
> Best,
> Robert
>
>
>
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "buck Buchanan" <ret.armysgt at yahoo.com>
> To: "Antique Phonograph List" <phono-l at oldcrank.org>
> Sent: Friday, November 14, 2008 8:51 PM
> Subject: Re: [Phono-L] eBay
>
>
>>I have been using ebay for a number of years and I have watched the fees 
>>climb for the sellers to the point that they have lost many of the dealers 
>>that used to be on this website.
>> Now that they are forcing them to use Paypal I expect them to lose 
>> another 25% of the current sellers. Being an ex-flea market person the 
>> profit is very little on this type of a system if your over-head 
>> increases and you can't pass it on to the individual that is buying the 
>> item then you go out of business.
>> I have never used another site for bidding on records and I am also new 
>> at collecting records does anybody know another auction website where I 
>> can start looking for the older 78's and misc items from the Victorian 
>> period?
>>
>> Thank you
>> Bill Buchanan
>>
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