The Music Room is Slipping

I bought a used cable from them and felt that the price was about 15% higher than I could have bought it from a private party had one been available, but one wasn’t.  I bought the cable and felt it was a reasonably fair purchase.

I then sought to trade a pair of class D amps in on a class A stereo amp from another manufacturer.  On the Class D amps, they quoted me a price that was barely over 50% of what the amps were bringing on the open market, and the price they wanted for the stereo amp was about 40% higher than they were bringing on the open market.  The upshot was, if I had done the deal, I would essentially, in a financial sense, have given them my amps for free.  Needless to say, I passed. 

I was able to pretty easily sell my amps and buy a stereo amp at market rates.

I will be very reluctant to seek to sell them any used equipment in the future based on this experience.

I understand they are in business to make a profit and have overhead, while private sellers do not.  But, I’m not willing to give my equipment away.   

Out with these Neat Motive SX2s

and in with these Spendor a2s curtesy of TMR Audio. Thanks for the tip, guys!

@faustuss ,

How are those Spendor's sounding?

Just purchased cables from them at a reasonable price (56% of retail), and they were very accommodating to ship the cables to Cardas (for retermination into different lengths) and the packaging to me (Cardas doesn’t return original packaging).  Cables shipped the same day I bought them. Super friendly interaction and super easy transaction.  No signs of “slippage” from my perspective.

You'll note the OP has been absent for over a month.

Must still be chewing on those sour grapes.