Can Audiogon compete with AudioMart (US and Canuck)


Can Audiogon compete?  AudioMart has way more postings (probably it is mostly free)?  But can Audiogon survive?

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Isn't Agon mostly dealers posting FS items? Most don't give "deals" so I don't bother with them YMMV. If it is a dealer ad it can also be a demo or an exchange item. 

One has more dealers as sellers, the other has mostly private sales. I know which one I've migrated to. Trying to sell an ARC Ref 6 and seeing the "fee" was my watershed moment. I'm already losing money on each sale; no reason to amplify the bleed that much. 

It seems to me that the two platforms have different business models. There's apparently room for both in the marketplace.

audiogon is more of a specialty market--that specialty bein $10k and up. USAM and CAM are for everyone, audiogo is more for audiogon, like audiocircle trading post was. there is overlap, but theyre not in competition.