| That's a big problem around here, if a few guys like a pc. of gear, hype it here and it only attracts 2 guys that want it bad on ebay, it will shoot way up there in price. The latest example of this was a Langevin mixer up on ebay that someone pointed out in the "HIGH END" forum and a few posters raved about the mic pres. Although the concensus of the thread said that mixer should be sold in the $2k range, it went for $6k. Interesting how that seller had another Langevin mixer to sell after the auction was over. If I were a smart dealer with low morals (not that any of those guys ever show up on slutz LOL) I'd hype the hell out of something I was going to sell and maybe even shill the first few of them way up there to set an artifically high market price and then let the suckers line up. The way the JBL's have been going lately looks like a few guys with hardons for one or some smart sellers. It will cool off and they will start going for a more reasonable price given their age as most will need a recapping soon. I just picked up a second AMR large format mixer (16 buss) for $700 to use as spare parts for my existing AMR (24 buss). It will also help a few other AMR owners that I'll offer some modules to for spares at a low reasonable price so we will ALL be winners. These are solid desks but none of the owners of them including myself have hyped them here in the forums, point being made here is that there are plenty of solid values out there in the used gear market to go after rather than getting caught up in the latest bidding war/shilled/forum hyped piece of gear. Figure what you need next and do some homework on long term used market price before getting caught up in a feeding frenzy LOL. |