Stark Reality on the 'bay
DJBombjack
Miami 1,665 Posts
Anybody know who this seller is? And why he/she thinks they'll get that asking price? It's been up there for a few months now.
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I know this guy! Has a house full of records and that record he has listed is his spare copy that he found for a $1. Not 1,000 dollars but a damn $1! in a junk shop in middle America. Guy is off the chain with the prices sometimes!
He put it up once with a reserve some months ago. It ended at 565 dollars. The reserve was a 1000 dollars. Oh well.
I have seen it sellin' for even more...
Yes this price does surprise me since it's about double the median.
http://www.popsike.com/php/quicksearch.p...=dprice&thumbs=
dag, i thought it sold for more than that too. and here i was thinking about selling my copy.... maybe i'll just hang onto it (and watch the price go down even further probably)
Is it finally safe for me to say that, even though it was produced by my company, I've never really dug it?
you think you're Ahmad Jamal? GTFOHWTBS
I work for WGBH.
Welcome back Monty!
And now there is a copy popping up every couple of months now!
That was me, it was an even $1000. I didn't buy it as an investment and would have never put that type of money on a record if I didn't think the cause was justified. The fact that the companies we sent the donations through actually doubled or tripled that number made it even better. I've listened to it a few times but have the mp3s on the ipod now so the record hasn't been played in a long time. If we did something like that auction again I'd put it back up so someone else could own it for awhile, as long as the cause was a good one. No regrets here at all.
Off topic here. (Where is that Enoch Light Hijack icon?)
It is my opinion that when a record reaches a certain value in $$$ it will be continuously put up for sale.
No one can afford to just hold the record.
It becomes too valuable to play in regular rotation.
It becomes too valuable to play in the club.
So it just sits on the shelf.
After a few years the owner realizes they no longer get enjoyment from just holding the item.
And back on the market it goes.
I'm not talking about this record or Sween here. I am making a more general point.
What do you think?
I dont know, although I do not own any bonafide $1000+ records at the moment (ive sold a few, but they werent my type of music, so I had no reservations about selling them), I have many $300 to $700 pieces and I have never not DJ'd with them, nor limited my playing of them becasue of their value...the music on them is the most important thing and is the reason I own them in the first place..if i dont plan on listening to them or playing them for other people, I wouldnt have them
I don't know enough about the record market to be able to answer that, but I do know that the economy is in the shitter and I would think people might need to raise some cash wherever they can. I know you said you weren't referring to me but I mentioned that I would sell it for a worthy cause, not to bank some cash for myself. BUT, if I suddenly lost my job and the mortgage was coming due and cash was getting thin and I was getting hungry then this record along with a bunch of other things I have laying around that could bring in some money would be out the door with the quickness, unfortunately.