Unsellable L3000

[vcoheda]

this guy has been trying to sell this pair of L3000s for what seems like forever. has anyone made him any offers. i wrote him an email a ways back telling him that his price was too high. he just said that he also was accepting offers but did not indicate a price range.

he ships worldwide, so i don't know what's up.

http://cgi.ebay.com/Audio-Technica-A...QQcmdZViewItem

 

[MrSlacker]

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Originally Posted by vcoheda /img/forum/go_quote.gif this guy has been trying to sell this pair of L3000s for what seems like forever. has anyone made him any offers. i wrote him an email a ways back telling him that his price was too high. he just said that he also was accepting offers but did not indicate a price range. he ships worldwide, so i don't know what's up. http://cgi.ebay.com/Audio-Technica-A...QQcmdZViewItem

I am pretty sure there are lotsa people here who already made offer. Headphone like that does not go unnoticed.

 

[robm321]

I think the going rate on L3000s is overpriced - I'm sure others will think differently. At almost $3K... good luck selling them.

Maybe he's hoping to get someone that needs to have them and loves the sound enough to just take them rather than wait for another to pop up. You never know his patience might pay off.

 

[ast]

hmm.... US$2995 is a little too high.

 

[wower]

Its $500 dollars cheaper in Japan, but you still have to find it. I know of one pair behind glass in Sapporo. Just waiting...

 

[Iron_Dreamer]

At the moment, the price just seems to high. He will either wait until someone takes that price, or eventually lower it.

That said, the L3000 is a quite a bit more rare than the R10 (500 units vs. 2000+ units), and they both had approx. the same price when new. Though the L3000 is not quite as universally loved as the R10, it would seem to me that time would continue to drive L3000 prices upward, if not quite to the obscene heights of some recent R10 sales (i.e. $6k).

 

[Icarium]

Im fairly sure the retail price for R10 was somewhere like 4.5k-4.6k new. But I could be wrong.

 

[vcoheda]

yes. i think $3000 is way too much for the L3000 (i think $2500 is too much). but he is also accepting offers. i wonder what he would sell it for. i'm just not in the market for one right now, so i don't even want to attempt it.

but what is his price.

 

[Iron_Dreamer]

I seem to recall a time where R10's went for $2400 or so new from Amazon. This was just prior to discontinuation.

 

[Icarium]

Yeah new price dropped a lot over the years but I think in their prime they were that much new (4.5k). Towards the end I heard they were like 2.4k 2.6k

 

[rb67]

That's quite steep price, especially for when the cables are frayed. In the 1st picture on the left side, you can see obvious cable damage. $3k is quite ridiculous for an L3000 in that kind of condition IMO... not that I could afford an L3000 at the normal going price

 

[purk]

AT 3000 USD the price is too high. At 2500 USD is much more reasonable. I'm not sure whether the L3000 will continue to see the price surge the way that the R10 and the HE90 experienced. IMO, the R10 and HE90 are just more superior sounding to the L3000, so I don't expect the leather head to ever reach that high.

 

[Audio-Omega]

A limited edition headphones is a good investment ?!

 

[krmathis]

$3000 is way to steep, and I am sure lots of people have given him a offer.
I guess people don't offer what he want and hence they don't sell.

 

[zelo]

I saw this auction for a while. I believe this price the seller set is just too high, even the seller claimed it is a brand new unit.