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When is the best time of year to sell my surplus audio gear. I imagine from now until into the New Year people are using their funds for other reasons and will be reluctant to splurge on upgrading their systems.
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I've had good luck during the month of October. Most parts of the country are getting cold, and people are spending more time indoors playing with their "inside" toys. Past October, you start to compete with the holidays.
Of course if you price it cheap enough it will sell anytime!
Anytime.
or you'll soon be selling your stuff for a few packs of cigarettes or cans of tuna or spam ;)
Yearly seems like going into September through about February/March is a great time to sell gear as people are looking to stock up. April.May through AUgust is probably the best time to buy since most people are concentrating on their vacations/holidays. At least in North America.
For the global economy? The best all around time to buy was 2008-2009 - fantastic deals could be had since the economy was so poor that people were not spending money.
I think in North America things have slowly climbed back towards a healthy normalcy, though it isn't anywhere near where it was in 2004-2006.
I think European economies are starting to falter - so it may slow up there, and Asian ones, led by China may be slowing a little - whether this is structural, or whether it is temporary is anyone's guess - but it is still a blistering growth by Western standards.
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During the down economy I recall seeing sad Audiogon ads of folks selling off their gear because they lost their jobs.
Buying was slow too because of the uncertainty. I sure felt it as the company I was working for was tanking and then the uncertainty after we were acquired by a much larger company.
Is it just me or does it seem like the used market is healthier now than it was just a couple years ago. It seemed very dead and slow not too long ago.
I'm looking to buy loudspeakers. Are you going to offer any at a reasonable price??
I think it is random and the best thing is to have some patience and offer the items at a reasonable price.
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"I can't compete with the dead". (Buck W. 2010)
I think you should have a firm price and when someone meets it it is the right time to sell.
Give me rhythm or give me death!
Edits: 10/31/14
What level of gear?
I'd imagine the higher you get in price, the less seasonal the demand is - but I could be completely wrong about that.
Jim J.
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Here's my rig with ZERO transmit hours on it. Sad but true because my antenna is RX only in this HOA restricted community.
Icom
Halliscratchers SX-71. My first general coverage RX with HAM band scale during my novice days in 1971. The Hallicrafters was actually much older than that. Not my unit shown here but like the one I had. Bump the table or sneeze and you'll be retuning trying to find your contact.
The answer is to sell the 746PRO before you have display issues :-p
I had an original 746 forever - I still think there'd be a market for one today. We seem to be in one of those decades of really weird user interface design in amateur radios...
Jim J.
Are you talking about back-light or something else? The back-light delayed coming ON a couple times after the radio had not been used for a quite a while.
Here's the radio I wouldn't mind having. Compact and full of bells and whistles! It's not shipping yet.
Or this one for QRP portable.
73, KD0EIW (ex-WN6UCS / WA6UCS)
It's a Yaesu FT-990 without the built in power supply and antenna tuner.
I do have a TenTec Omni 6 and that is a very quiet radio.
I usually run all vintage AM gear on 3.880mhz phone.I had my friend's TenTec Jupiter for a week which was really cool because you could download filters right from TenTec. Here is what I was looking at recently.
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Edits: 11/01/14
You can't beat the market!
Observe, before you think. Think before you open your yap. Act on the basis of experience.
Winter and autumn have been the best for me.
... People go to university to study about such times & trends but at the end of the day just put whatever you have up for sale.
One is never guaranteed a sale no matter when you sell.
Just do it.
YMMV.
Smile
Sox
(still my favorite South Park episode) and the remaining months usually fall in between.
"Once this was all Black Plasma and Imagination" -Michael McClure
After Thanksgiving n even before, sales drop significantly.Christmas shopping takes precedent. After New Years is good till Feb then the boys have to toe the line for Valentine's. Just an observation.
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