Bargains on ebay?

[The Grand Wazoo]

GL75 prices getting sillier by the day. This is ten times what they sold for just a couple of years ago!

He can ask what he wants but will he get it?
You can still get them for well under a hundred pounds if you look. A friend bought one just last week for £50.

[Beobloke]

£625... bet the seller is almost as shocked as we are!

"I think this is far too much for what I thought was a bit of scrap metal

I have now added a picture to make sure we are talking about the same thing

It has been laying around in the garage for many years and was on it's way to the dump"

I'm not sure whether to laugh or cry.

On the one hand, great bargains can be had from people who decide to "try and sell that old thing before taking it to the dump", but I can't help wondering how much good stuff just goes straight to the dump without the slightest attempt to offer it to a new owner? I don't know about anyone else, but I've heard enough "I used to have one of those - I threw it in a skip" type comments to last me a lifetime.

[Rare Bird]

Ive seen it in the metal skips at the local dump, loads of it. Now can i ask why these idiots purposly smash this item so no one else can grab em? Totally & utterly spiteful imho..

[Rare Bird]

Spare late Mayware Shell there

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Mayware-Fo...item20d0e7b0e7

[DSJR]

Several years ago, you couldn't get rid of some old audio stuff no matter how good it was. 401's were a hundred quid tops and TD124's not that much more. GL75's went for £25 in plinths with old cartridges too.

I think that the collapse of the mid-priced HiFi market has caused the slack to be taken up by the used market now and I know many audio forumites do just that, paying a few hundred quid for things that would cost thousands new and I feel this has caused ebay prices to go bananas, hence the GL75 price inflation now for example.

[Mike - H]

A few months ago a guy was selling a rough looking 401 mounted on a very basic board/plinth and was dismissive of the arm, "I'm throwing in the arm for free dont know if it works" was what he said. It was an Ortofon worth at least double the TT, someone must have tipped him off because he withdrew it then re-listed separately.

[MikeMusic]

A few months ago a guy was selling a rough looking 401 mounted on a very basic board/plinth and was dismissive of the arm, "I'm throwing in the arm for free dont know if it works" was what he said. It was an Ortofon worth at least double the TT, someone must have tipped him off because he withdrew it then re-listed separately.

My P Reg Saab has to start going up in value soon too

[Rare Bird]

Several years ago, you couldn't get rid of some old audio stuff no matter how good it was. 401's were a hundred quid tops and TD124's not that much more. GL75's went for £25 in plinths with old cartridges too.

I think that the collapse of the mid-priced HiFi market has caused the slack to be taken up by the used market now and I know many audio forumites do just that, paying a few hundred quid for things that would cost thousands new and I feel this has caused ebay prices to go bananas, hence the GL75 price inflation now for example.

Um yeh right you know & i know why people by vintage gear

[MikeMusic]

Just received Prodigy - Invaders Must die CD

Thought there was a mistake on the listing saying +DVD, I was happy enough with the CD

1p
+ postage

[Spur07]

"I think this is far too much for what I thought was a bit of scrap metal

I have now added a picture to make sure we are talking about the same thing

It has been laying around in the garage for many years and was on it's way to the dump"

I'm not sure whether to laugh or cry.

On the one hand, great bargains can be had from people who decide to "try and sell that old thing before taking it to the dump", but I can't help wondering how much good stuff just goes straight to the dump without the slightest attempt to offer it to a new owner? I don't know about anyone else, but I've heard enough "I used to have one of those - I threw it in a skip" type comments to last me a lifetime.

I've seen plenty of stuff down my local refuse that would make you weep - once saw some big green valve amps - Pamphonic or Dynatron I'm guessing. I bought some KT66's off a valve seller the other day and he said his mate came across a pair of Quad II's (complete with valves) just sitting on the wall at his local refuse centre in Bracknell, ended up paying the manager £50 for them!

I've had this conversation before - the trouble is its impossible reaching the kind of people who do this before they actually do it. They don't seem to use ebay, local papers, or the freecycle website. They seem to live in world of their own.