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Current Marketplace for Vacuum Tubes?

Hello All. I have been away from the audio world for several years, and I'm out of touch with the marketplace.

It appears from a search of tubes presently for sale on Audiogon that the marketplace has shrunk.

I am preparing to sell off some premium tubes (or so I consider them), and I'm interested to know more about marketplace alternatives for audio tubes. E-Bay is, of course, a known marketplace. If there are others, please discuss.

TIA.
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jmcgrogan2
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Hello Grant,

I hope that you are well.
The market as a whole has shrunk.
https://forum.audiogon.com/discussions/what-s-going-on-with-the-audio-market

Warning: It is a buyers market. You may consider them premium tubes, but prepared to be shocked at what the market considers them.
Great time for buyers, terrible time for sellers.

Besides Audio Asylum Trader, as lowrider57 mentions above, US Audiomart is also another option.

Good luck,
John
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jmcgrogan2
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I'm glad that you were able to off-load some of your old tube stock Grant. 

I concur with your findings. I do almost all of my selling on AudioAsylum Trader and USAudiomart the last couple of years.
I buy there too, though I still buy some things on AudiogoN. 
I do not use Ebay to buy or sell audio equipment.
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