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• Arfa June 2012

  Member

  You can now make use of the Hi-Fi Hunter second hand hifi search engine to find gear in the USA and Australia now. By indexing local sites in these countries, you can now hunt down that elusive piece of kit with a single search button.
  
  Hi-Fi Hunter USA
  Hi-Fi Hunter Australia
  
  If you have any suggestions for other sites, classifieds etc that your think should be included in the Hi-Fi Hunter index, please get in touch.
  

  Arfa
  www.roydaudio.com | www.hifihunter.com
• Alan June 2012

  Moderator

  Nice job, Arfa - that's a really useful resource!
  

  Life: Trek it or Wreck it.
  
  
  Main: [ Qnap TS 110 NAS ] > Modified Apple MACmini (Mountain Lion, Audirvana +) > M2Tech Young DAC > LightSpeed Attenuator (LDR) > XIV 10W SECA Amplifier > Royd Revelation RR3 Speakers
  Belkin PF40 Mains filter for all digital gubbins
  Cables by Tellurium Q and DIY.
  
  Office: FooBar2000 > HRT Music Streamer 2 > NVA AP20 > JPW Sonata
• Arfa June 2012

  Member

  No problem. Onwards and upwards to global domination! ;-)
  

  Arfa
  www.roydaudio.com | www.hifihunter.com
• Alan June 2012

  Moderator

  You need a white cat & a black Ikea faux leather swivel chair. Shame there isn't a website that can help find such a thing?
  

  Life: Trek it or Wreck it.
  
  
  Main: [ Qnap TS 110 NAS ] > Modified Apple MACmini (Mountain Lion, Audirvana +) > M2Tech Young DAC > LightSpeed Attenuator (LDR) > XIV 10W SECA Amplifier > Royd Revelation RR3 Speakers
  Belkin PF40 Mains filter for all digital gubbins
  Cables by Tellurium Q and DIY.
  
  Office: FooBar2000 > HRT Music Streamer 2 > NVA AP20 > JPW Sonata
• uglymusic June 2012

  Administrator

  Well done Arfa.

  
  

  Soon Hi-Fi Hunter Burkina Faso? :-)

  Take a look at these hands!
  Main: White MacBook/SSD/OS X Lion/Audirvana Plus -> Tellurium Q Digital Interconnect -> M2Tech Young/Super TeddyReg PSU -> TQ Blue Interconnects -> TQ Iridium Listen Pre-amp -> TQ Blue Interconnects -> Green Goddess Single Ended Class A 12 wpc Power Amp -> TQ Ultra Black and Graphite speaker cables -> Royd RR3 speakers/Royd stands
  Ugliness depositories: Synology DS411slim NAS and FireWire Drobo
  Office: KingRex USB DAC and PSU -> Passive pre ->TQ Atom power amp -> Mission 761 speakers/desk
  Visit my website, Writing For SEO
• Brain_Dead June 2012

  Member

  Yes interesting site apart from that bloody pop up very nasty.

  I just love the way Acrylic burns and the fumes are to just die for!
• Arfa June 2012

  Member

  The popup, appears if you land on a site that it thinks is for a different country to the one you're in. It's supposed to give you the option or switching to the site for you country, or continuing to the one for another country. If you choose the latter it will set a cookie and not present you with the option again. (If you hit the X in the corner, it doesn't set a cookie, so will potentially bug you again though).
  
  Brain_Dead: Did it work like this for you? Or did it repeatedly bother you?
  

  Arfa
  www.roydaudio.com | www.hifihunter.com
• Alan June 2012

  Moderator

  Yo Arfa,  How likely (or not) that HiFiHunter might be able to host some kind of auction facility itself, given the recent eBay announcement and other issues?
  

  Life: Trek it or Wreck it.
  
  
  Main: [ Qnap TS 110 NAS ] > Modified Apple MACmini (Mountain Lion, Audirvana +) > M2Tech Young DAC > LightSpeed Attenuator (LDR) > XIV 10W SECA Amplifier > Royd Revelation RR3 Speakers
  Belkin PF40 Mains filter for all digital gubbins
  Cables by Tellurium Q and DIY.
  
  Office: FooBar2000 > HRT Music Streamer 2 > NVA AP20 > JPW Sonata
• uglymusic June 2012

  Administrator

  I think I've seen an auction script somewhere, but how good it'll be, I don't know.
  
  It'd be pretty cool if you could put the time and resources into it, though.

  Take a look at these hands!
  Main: White MacBook/SSD/OS X Lion/Audirvana Plus -> Tellurium Q Digital Interconnect -> M2Tech Young/Super TeddyReg PSU -> TQ Blue Interconnects -> TQ Iridium Listen Pre-amp -> TQ Blue Interconnects -> Green Goddess Single Ended Class A 12 wpc Power Amp -> TQ Ultra Black and Graphite speaker cables -> Royd RR3 speakers/Royd stands
  Ugliness depositories: Synology DS411slim NAS and FireWire Drobo
  Office: KingRex USB DAC and PSU -> Passive pre ->TQ Atom power amp -> Mission 761 speakers/desk
  Visit my website, Writing For SEO
• Arfa June 2012

  Member

  Ebay's announcement isn't great, but doesn't surprise me...
  
  I don't think it would really be feasible trying to compete with another auction site, the net is already filled with classifieds sites and what not. I think the market is just too crowded and many don't even come close to the amount of traffic ebay generates. An auction relies on people pushing prices up, if there's not enough traffic to bid, prices will be too low, and punters will just start things high or use a reserve. The sheer number of classifieds sites was the main reason I setup HiFi Hunter...
  
  ebay is just too much of a monopoly, it's last decent competitor, QXL shut shop in 2008. I think Gumtree is all that comes close these days for volume/traffic.
  

  Arfa
  www.roydaudio.com | www.hifihunter.com

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