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Amoeba LA buying policies?

PATXPATX 2,820 Posts
edited October 2008 in Strut Central
I NEED TO KNOW! Future father in law was in town and going on about 10 boxes of records he took there and got $1700 for. WTF? Should I punch him?b,121b, 21In the plus column, his sister wrote 2 of Babs Lewis's hits on Atl. Has a reel of her singing somewhere.

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  • mannybolonemannybolone Los Angeles, CA 15,025 Posts
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    Quote:/font1h,121b,121I NEED TO KNOW! Future father in law was in town and going on about 10 boxes of records he took there and got $1700 for. WTF? Should I punch him? b,121b, 21h,121
    font class="post"1b,121b, 21For getting too much or too little?
  • PATXPATX 2,820 Posts
    No, Genius! For not saving them for me!
  • mannybolonemannybolone Los Angeles, CA 15,025 Posts
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    Quote:/font1h,121b,121No, Genius! For not saving them for me! b, 21b, 21h,121
    font class="post"1b,121b, 21I figured as much but what does that have to do with their buying policies? b, 21b, 21Please to re-title: "How come my future father-in-law did me cold like this?"
  • PATXPATX 2,820 Posts
    Because that sounds a bit creepy
  • hcrinkhcrink 8,729 Posts
    That sounds amazingly high for Amoeba.
  • reskresk 391 Posts
    would you have given him that much? That seems really high
  • ariel_calmerariel_calmer 3,762 Posts
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    Quote:/font1h,121b,121would you have given him that much? That seems really high b, 21b, 21h,121
    font class="post"1b,121b, 21He would give him $.10 per for the good stuff, THEN taken the dregs to Amoeba. img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/balla-22.gif" alt="" /1
  • PATXPATX 2,820 Posts
    I wouldn't have given him shit. He borrowed money from us the other month! OK, so it sounds like either he's talking shit or there were multiple sealed Westbounds in there. I think I know which.
  • LaserWolfLaserWolf Portland Oregon 11,517 Posts
    10 boxes.b, 21b, 21If small boxes 1,000 recordsb, 21If orange crates 1,500 recordsb, 21b, 21$1,700 for 1,000 - 1,500 quality R&B lps from the 60s. Does not sound outlandish to me. b, 21b, 21My experience though, is people overestimate how many records they have. My guess is 10 boxes is actually 2 boxes and $1700 is $17.
  • kidinquisitivekidinquisitive 1,627 Posts
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    Quote:/font1h,121b,121b,121b, 21$1,700 for 1,000 - 1,500 quality R&B lps from the 60s. Does not sound outlandish to me. b, 21b, 21b, 21b,121h,121
    font class="post"1b,121b, 21I personally have never seen a collection like that, and I've been to hundreds of peoples' houses who are of the right age and demographic to have collected it. People generally did not buy R&B on LP in the 60s (much more likely to find stuff on 45), and what they do have is usually common Motown records in VG- condition. The only people who are at all likely to have 1,000+ quality r&b or soul albums from the 60s would be modern day collectors, who would never bring the stuff en masse to a record store (one would hope not, anyway). Now, it's not all that unusual to find collections with hundreds or thousands of albums from the 70s or 80s, but the ratio of quality to very common is more often than not quite depressing.
  • mannybolonemannybolone Los Angeles, CA 15,025 Posts
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    Quote:/font1h,121b,121I wouldn't have given him shit. He borrowed money from us the other month! . b, 21b, 21h,121
    font class="post"1b,121b, 21Ok, now we're getting into some whole other territory.
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