While I was doing research, before I purchased my M60s, I noticed that there were A LOT of Paradigm, KEF, Mirage, B&W, (and boat loads of) Polk, Klipsch, and Bose, but barely any Axioms. Talking strickly used. Hmmm, I wonder why.

No one feels the need to upgrade?

Good point, Woody. They are pretty scarce on the used market.

I suspect that's at least partially due to the trade-in program in the past (now replaced by the Axiom Auctions). Often, when an Axiomite gets rid of a speaker, it's in a trade-in/upgrade to another Axiom speaker. Keeping it in the family. Welcome to the speaker Mafia.

These are all brands that are mass market and I would bet these companies are sales leaders (top tier) in Europe, NA or both with Bose right at the top of the list, Klipsch and Polk following. B&W would be dominate in Europe. More sales, more products available on the used market. Simple economics.

Sorry Bluejay. I gotta believe it has more to do with people getting tired, fatigued, with their inferior products.(Wouldn't be the first time I was wrong, though.)

I thinks it is a combination of both loyalty and mass market. Axiom is a niche brand with loyal customers. Sales of used axioms seem to be to freinds or family memebers as we have upgrade itits here. The large companies like klipsch for example pound out speakers in offshore factories at a certain rate and if they dont distribute all of them they find their way onto sites like ebay being sold by vendors who bought them at overstock prices. or i could just be full of ****

Is there ANYthing Apple doesn't try to improve upon?

It's no coincidence that the top selling speaker manufacturers in the world (top selling products do not necessarily mean great products) have the most exposure in the used market. The parity would be very large to that of ID companies.

Small ID companies like SVS, Axiom, Aperion, Salk Sound, Ascend would pale in comparison in sales (were talking millions and millions of units here) to that of HUGE companies that are exposed to the masses everywhere around the world like Bose, B&W, Harman, Polk, Klipsch.

Ebay is economics at its finest at work.

Now, that is FUNNY !!!

Proof that you (I) can find anything on the internet:

JP, I knew that you would be first to comment on a boobie joke!

Where you lead, I follow, sensei.

Bet there's not a lot of used iTits being sold...OK, now I'm creeping myself out.

Now you're a full-fledged Axiomite!

Quick, someone, get him his membership card and smoking jacket!

JP, I'm pretty sure we voted to make YOU responsible for membership materials fulfillment.

Or maybe it was (dis)orientation. I forget.

Who has the charter, again?

Welcome! I think you are going to fit in, very well, here.

The price/performance ratio.

You are going to do well here, but it's not because you can riff on a boob joke. It's because you can creep yourself out. Like most things worth pursuing, it's gotta start with yourself. As soon as you can make others feel that way, then you'll be cooking with gas.

Bob? Gas?

Now I'M creeped out.

C'mon, Mark. Creeping you out is as impossible as the existence of french grammar.

My grammar was French. My grampar was Irish.

Bren R.

Sorry, Bren. I would never intentionally negate your Grammar's existence.

Grammercide. It ain't pretty.