Inexperienced Seller Question

Certainly selling stuff online these days has its challenges. While I have had mostly positive results with EBAY, I’ve had a couple issues selling stuff. Fortunately nothing high dollar and I didn’t get stung. I’ve heard of TMR and looked at their site but have never used them. As Paradisecom stated, local market sources might make for an easy painless sell. I’d further suggest seeing if there’s any local music/audio clubs that might have interest in buying gear. I’ve only sold one item on Audiogon and it was an easy transaction. Person was local so no shipping and paid cash at my listing price. Might take a bit of patience but eventually everything sells. Just have to weed out the tire kickers, dreamers and scammers along the way. May good luck be on your side. 

If you live in a populated area or semi, I would put it on Craigslist (seriously), here, and USAM, and initially shoot for local sale only. That way negates any shipping hassles. That seems like a really good asking price, especially with the servicing done. I predict a relatively quick local sale! If lack of feedback is a concern, explain the situation and point out your long standing membership here. Anyone interested in your piece will likely know Audiogon.

If you live in a populated area or semi, I would put it on Craigslist (seriously), here, and USAM, and initially shoot for local sale only. That way negates any shipping hassles. That seems like a really good asking price, especially with the servicing done. I predict a relatively quick local sale! If lack of feedback is a concern, explain the situation and point out your long standing membershi

This!

Forgot to add lack of seller feedback isn’t nearly as relevant when selling local, so another plus as opposed to non local.

If listing privately, advertising at a low low price (well below market) for "hassle free sale" is often not effective, and sometimes counterproductive. It draws in more of the obnoxious people. List for what it’s worth, and screen your buyers (be choosy). On the other hand, it’s also easy to misjudge the REAL market (often worse than your think), and list too high. Anyways the JC-2 is a nice unit and 900 does seem low.  

Also, you mean the JC-2 preamp, not JC-1 (which is a mono amp). And IIRC there is a revision version (BP) that accounts for some of the increased MSRP. However "now going for 5.5K" sounds like an AI hallucination. These details matter when listing!

And I’m sorry but if UPS damaged your MC cart then it likely wasn’t packed properly. It must be packed separately in its own case/shell - never mounted to a tonearm! Packaging physics is undefeated - there’s a right and wrong way for every component. Fortunately, components like the JC-2 come from factory with thick form-fitting closed-cell foam (polyethylene) and double or triple-wall boxes. Nothing can move around, at all. That kind of packing is EXCELLENT and has a near 100% success rate for safe transit with UPS or FedEx. When you have that kind of packing, you’re golden to ship. I’ve even shipped up to 135 lbs VAC tube amps - you need at least 2" - 3" of premium polyethylene foam (multi-layer is best) all around, but it gets the job done. You can buy good foam on Amazon but it ain't cheap. 

If you really want low hassle you can contact TMR (The Music Room) - but you’ll obviously relinquish a big chunk of its market value. Maybe try a consignment sale if not in a hurry.

I’ve done local sales but honestly despise it. Having a new stranger in the home, or arranging a meet somewhere. Ugh, no thanks. It’s higher risk IMO.