Selling on ebay vs Audigon

I sold my system on Audiogon faster than ebay. And I got what I wanted without much haggling. 😁

eBay has too many flaky buyers for vinyl record sales. They are often too picky or downright cheaters. They try and scam a partial refund after the item arrives. This cost you shipping, plus return shipping and many people just give a partial refund. 

I sell only on Discogs now and it has been a pleasant experience with no issues thus far.

I still sell other items on eBay, but I make sure to disclose even the slightest of issues and eBay always backs me if a buyer starts crying about something that was clearly listed in the description.

I used to use E-Bay for about 15 years buying and selling high end audio

 until E-Bay started settling disputes to the buyers side my experience 4 time's on my account... I took great pic's stated a full description of what i may have been selling. After working in the professional sound industry for over 30 years I went through my house and could not believe the amount of gear I had acquired.

So I used a site called Reverb was able to sell all my gear at a fair price with no issues

from the buyers and was paid promptly. 

Feel like I've been using ebay since it started. Yeah, used to be a great place to find stuff, then it became a small business site. Now who knows what it is. Scams are everywhere, so many people are trying to get something for nothing, or they think their old beat up, dirty item is pure gold. Love seeing 20 yo stuff that looks like it was pulled from your crawl space, asking 120% of retail, as in perfect shape. 

Of course that stuff is everywhere. Even here. What to do? Sell on FBM, Craigslist, USM. No overhead, but you got to deal with more crap. I hate to ship anything expensive, or heavy, amps/speakers will not buy outside my pickup area. 

That being said, just picked up another sub array on eBay, it should be here next week. The price was too good to pass up, plus shipping was very fair. Asked to have it double boxed, and insured. Also about a month ago, picked up a new rear shock for my MTB, it was the only place that had one available, that was a smooth transaction, happy to be back on my bike. 

In short, everyplace has it's issues, plus sometimes you to compromise to get what you want, anything used is a gable.