I just glanced over at the traffic over there. The trend is definitely a downward spiral. Check out the 6 month graph....
http://www.quantcast.com/audiogon.com
http://www.quantcast.com/audiogon.com
Trust me when I tell you that we have done due diligence on this issue looking for an alternative solution. However it will not only take huge sums of money, it is tantamount to David taking on Goliath and could be doomed to failure
Good morning, Mike. That's one heck of a negative. Wow....on the negative side AudiogoN now prohibts contact information such as your email, phone number, or mailing address in your ad.
But it still doesn't prevent 'off site' trading- somebody sends you an offer and you can comment in response to include your contact info; ditto on the queries. I usually send people to my law firm email address partly to vett them and then to talk further. What's stupid is that I'm not doing that to screw audiogon- I made sure my buyer went thru the system and I paid the commission, which is not the issue. The cumbersomeness of communicatioan is a problem though. I'm glad that they fixed the forum time lag on postings, I saw that, but figured it was just a function of having already 'subscribed' to a thread.Good morning, Mike. That's one heck of a negative. Wow.
But it still doesn't prevent 'off site' trading- somebody sends you an offer and you can comment in response to include your contact info; ditto on the queries. I usually send people to my law firm email address partly to vett them and then to talk further. What's stupid is that I'm not doing that to screw audiogon- I made sure my buyer went thru the system and I paid the commission, which is not the issue. The cumbersomeness of communicatioan is a problem though. I'm glad that they fixed the forum time lag on postings, I saw that, but figured it was just a function of having already 'subscribed' to a thread.