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Suggested NEW CATEGORIES

Yesterday I emailed Audiogon that they create 2 new listings in their audio categories: "VINTAGE" & "TABLE RADIOS"

Many of us have, desire, or admire VINTAGE (for me that's pre-1980) audio gear. Much of these items are sold on (ahem) eBay...when they would do better, I believe, at Audiogon. How say ye?

Likewise, there are literally 10's of thousands of various TABLE RADIOS from the 1920's through the 1960's...georgeous to look at, warm and rich sounding (not all, mindyou), and can make a pointed addition to your home's decor. ADDISON radios, made in Toronto, are multi-coloured beauties which can fetch thousands of dollars. Adding such a category would also serve to "cross-pollinate" many collectors in the general populace with the audiophile community...a good thing...do you agree?

Audiogon has replied that they "will consider" such a suggestion. Any support from the members can only HELP!
stereokarter
buckingham
333 posts
 
Another vote for phono preamp. I recently sold a phono preamp and I also noticed that there were lots of other phono pre-amps for sale in the pre-amp category. Audiogon, phono preamps are screaming for their own category. And whatever happened to the pictures in the Virtual Systems section? That would be a really classy addition to the website :)
zaikesman
3,017 posts
 
Yea on the Phono Stage section idea - this has also occurred to me while trying to browse. Here's another: Headphones & Headphone Amps.

An similar proposal that I e-mailed to A-Gon a while ago: Leave Forum topics on the New Today page until they fail to generate further responses for 24 hours. Put another way, topic titles would remain up on the New Today page without time limit while they're active, being removed only by attrition when activity ceases, rather than getting arbitrarily shuffled off to the Archives after a couple of days. (You may have noticed that many topic titles suddenly stop generating responses when they drop from the front page, and if the topic is timely, another essentially "duplicate" post may appear.) A-Gon said they would consider it, but were concerned about the New Today page becoming too long. Now, with the Wanted listings removed from the page, maybe my idea could be tried out. Whatta ya'll think?
ed_sawyer
588 posts
 
Need a category for Tubes. Don't hold your breath waiting for Agon to make changes, IMHO. It seems they do whatever they feel like, when ever they feel like, regardless of demands of members.

-Ed
jeffloistarca
1,004 posts
 
Whoa Ed, who pissed in your Cornflakes? I asked AudioGon several times to allow us to upload pics for inclusion in ads, and they made the change. The ads are much better now that there's a pic to gander at. AudioGon may not always move fast but they do listen.
ed_sawyer
588 posts
 
pics was not an issue before (at least for me). Easily done via html. Sure, they may listen but not respond. To wit: several requests for original price to be listed again on the "new today" page, which they conveniently ignored. requests for new categories have been gone over before, but haven't seen any action on that (and it was weeks/months ago that they got the requests...).

They just don't seem to be all that customer-service driven, from my experience. Not a slam on Agon, just an observation.
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