Selling on ebay vs Audigon

Yes, it is a tough world trying to simply sell honestly. Your sales tactic is very close to mine except for Auction vs.  buy it now. I have been an Electronic Technician all my life.  Sometimes I must put in a great deal of time refurbishing an item, especially the way I do it. I do each item as if I were going to use this permanently myself. Early on I had some equipment that I had a lot of labor in and the item just happened to not garner as much interest as I had anticipated and sold for peanuts. Like a situation now that I am facing. I bought two McIntosh MC2100 amps 52 years ago. They have been absolutely a joy to use. I had never had to do any repair on either one this whole time. I decided to make them ready for sale since I upgraded to some more powerful Bryston 250 wpc amps. ALL new capacitors that are current production upgraded caps. Plus removal of all original output transistors and replaced the installation with very high end thermal transfer insulators and transfer grease compound. Nothing was spared in this effort. I would hate to sell this pair at auction for a lowball price of something like $1,000 when I feel that they are worth far more. 

I find this type of interraction very productive and cathardic. After reading many posts like yours and mine a person can more easily determine which venue best suits the Seller's standards. I have no idea whatsoever what fees here are for selling. I will probably list my amps here and see what happens. I also take ample pictures and videos. Nobody likes surprises. Then, occasionally there ARE buyers that want to continue dealing off of the bay. I have done this  on occasion and it has worked out just fine. after my listing period had run out. One thing I am firm on is being cheated ....I never let  the bay run over me. They have threatened to ban me twice even though my feedback profile is way over 2,000 positive and zero negative. 

I have bought audio equipment from both and had good experiences ans bad.Mostly with equipment breaking down after like 30 to 60 days later.Are people  selling stuff that they don't aren't 100 % good...I think so.

No real problems on eBay, but I never buy or sell anything expensive there. 

i've sold alot of stuff over 20+ years on ebay and concluded that 97% of buyers are either neutral or genuinely nice and appreciative, while the remaining 3% are either schemer/scammers or utterly unreasonable. it's like shoplifting--you gotta figure the latter group are an unavoidable cost of doing business. 

In the last two years, I sold quite a bit of hgher-end equipment for the window of a friend who passed away. I used both E-Bay and AG. I sold about 70% of the stuff on AG, and the other 30% on E-Bay.

I didn't experience any of the "dishonesty you referred to, but there was more low balling on E-Bay. That is not to say it didn't happen on AG, there just wasn't as many ridiculous offers.

I did my homework via Bluebook, and was fair with pricing, and in the end, got near what I expected. A few items went much higher, a few went much lower, so it all balanced out in the end.

For what it is worth, I've been selling audio equipment (including pro-audio for PA systems), and I've only had one bad experience in the last 10 years. Biggest issue was my complaints fell on deaf ears at E-Bay.

I think you have to be diligent and ask questions of potential buyers, or make your conditions clear ahead of time to deter scammers. That doesn't mean you won't get them, but it makes it easier to sniff them out. Good luck. Hope this helps.