Audioscape now selling refurbished kit!

Actually, not as much of a price reduction as I hoped. Think I got my EQP’s at that price on a sale.

While I would have liked a greater discount, they are listed at around the same prices as used units on Reverb, and these have been inspected, and the person who traded it in did it with little hassle, and Audioscape gets a piece of the used market and controls the quality of the units in the wild. Win win win scenario.

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It’s the time spent making sure it doesn’t need a repair that gets expensive. Even with say a simple 2 knob compressor you need to run a signal twist the knobs and make sure things like stereo link work. The thing that always bugged me with selling b-stock was that our reputation was all about who ever checked it.

I feel like a fair used price for mint should be 25% reduction, although on reverb it’s typically 20% (hence why I rarely buy off reverb, unless I’m truly in need and can’t kind it on FB or Kijiji). Just checked their numbers and they’re all pretty close to 20…some a little more, some a little less. True, I suppose it’s decent when considering it’s like new…serviced, inspected and warrantied.

And loving their new slogan ‘We won’t f*ck you’…which made me kinda sad the first time I read it, like am I not attractive enough?!  And now thinking, if they would just do it dammit, maybe I could get a better reduction!  I’d be okay with that… ;P

I wonder if the refurbished units are updated to current revisions..... I know that they continually revise their products and in some cases, like the EQP-A, there can be some big changes. I could see it as a way for them to pull older versions that may have kinks out of the wild and maintain a good reputation for the brand.

When you sell gear, say into the US, what are you typically offered? I found about 50%, I wondered if they were worried about duties, shipping etc.?

I understood but think buying retail is a bit of a mirage, as we are still paying for duties/shipping etc, but it’s just hidden in retail price?

Maybe, it’s just me being cheap, but the current high used prices seem out of whack? I’m selling my buddy’s good Roland kit: asking about 50% of retail, 40 views: one person, asked questions and wants to demo.

The rule for used pricing is there is no hard fast formula, it comes down to supply, demand location condition and terms as well as ease of shipping. Some things never come up used and are going to go for 90% of new, others nobody knows about and are going to be 10%. If a seller isn’t willing to ship drop and isn’t in a major market drop it 20%.

Mint also seams to have a pretty loose meaning these days & also an advantage with buying from Audio Scape it’s going to be packed well. The other day a seller shipped me the wrong piece of rack gear, no packing material on the side and rack ears rubbing against and poking out the sides. It went back with 1in packing material on each side 2 in front and behind plus 2.5 above and below ( I miss packing peanuts), the right piece came in that box with that packing.

All good, I was just talking private used sales.

Of course, prices vary around the world, can anyone say Oz?

Ah, perfect for repairs ?

Ah I gotcha. Idkfs but I think electronic drum kits more fall under tech, because they constantly release new models.  I was more referring to things like mics, comps, pre’s, etc.  Imo I think one of the reasons they hold their value so well is because companies don’t release ‘the latest and greatest’ model every year…and in many cases they never really get updated at all.