Skull Snaps Price Check?
major_briggs
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What is this record selling for these days? I have not seen an OG on ebay for a long time.
major_briggs
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dave
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That's the Itaian issue which don't sell for as much as the US. So that's probably a nice overprice.
I would like to check out the Italian issue to check if the sound is better because it's pretty good on the US issue. I have an idea that it's just some bullshit he is saying to sell it because it's usually the US issue that's most indemand.
I also found out after writing my message. GSF was a US label right? So you think that the US issue would sell for more. That's usually how it goes.
I don't think the italian issue sounds better than the US one - most old italian pressings I know do not have a good sound quality.
Skullsnaps was also pressed in Venezuela as most of the GSF titles - anybody knows how the sound of this one?
Popsike isn't a good indicator of what ebay prices are. Entries are added at the discretion of whoever runs the site. It's very random, tends to favor high prices, and doesn't take into account if the buyer actually came through with the $.
For instance (I'm guessing here) if "funk 45" or "psych" is in the title and it goes for over a few hundred $ it will get on the site. If not, it won't. A search for Lee Gagnon "Jeremie" gives a listing of the highest copies from a year ago when that title was very desirable, but not the recent copies that have gone for much less and didn't include keywords in the title. It didn't list the copy of lloyd mcneill "eliga" that I bought for $25 6 months ago, but it will probably list the copy that reynaldo is about to sell for almost 200. and so on.
This thing can give folks a really wrong idea
I think popsike is a pretty good indicator of prices (on ebay). It's as good as a lot of these price books that are around. It's not perfect, misses a lot of lower auctions but in general i think it captures the general demand of a specific record. It doesn't capture the exact price but I have been keeping track of a lot of records on ebay and they correlate roughly the same. ONe problem though is it doesn't go before 2003.
Now whether the prices on ebay are a good indicator is another question.
Co-sign. I've been tracking some assorted records since 03 on ebay and did a little search on popsike recently. If a record goes for under $30 it usually doesn't show up, plus they miss a lot of auctions even if they do go for money.
Well, we can agree to disagree. My problem is not with the site itself. I won't deny I check it from time to time. But the methods they used to select auctions to put in their database is very shady. They claim they can tell you "what are my records worth" but they're really not able to answer that.
If they kept a record of, say, all the auctions in the "records" sub-category, that would make more sense. Instead the people who run the site only load in auctions that meet certain (unknown to us) criteria.
Ebay is already a seller's market, and the site tends to make it worse by only listing high or out of the median sales. Especially for the real rarities that you might only see once or twice on ebay in a year, things that might go for 30 bucks or might go for 300 bucks, depending on who's paying attention.
I'm sure it's fine for pricing a copy of "headless heros". But for instance, to use lloyd mcneill again (artist du jour). There's no way for the average music consumer to know that his baobab LPs used to go for 10 or 20 bucks. So now they're up to the hyped level of his asha LPs.
This man knows it all.
Here's the auctions I've watched for that LP
$11.50 reserve not met
$48 no bids
$48.99
$42
$31.60
$36
$22.50
$32.51
A far cry from $61 & $76.
K.