Mark Dery on the old, weird eBay

I’ll see your Rega and raise you a Thorens TD160 in immaculate condition for $100, shipped. That was in the days when the seller (a small recording studio) was just trying to find a loving new home for the equipment. Nowadays anything like this becomes a commodity, bought and sold several times over by people who aren’t interested in the actual product, only in exploiting market inefficiencies.

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