playin the ebay game right
tripledouble
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http://search.ebay.com/_W0QQsassZbobdjukicthese dudes with their sealed records!!kinda crazyi like how they say the weldon irvine might be "the last sealed copy in the world"spill over effect to their other auctions too....marvin gaye whats going on for $65!!i guess dudes are a big operation. that nyc rent is def gonna get paid this month!!
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I could be selling the exact same records and I'd be lucky to get 1/2 what they get.
That's the way of the world.
http://cgi.ebay.com/TMNT-Turtles-in-Time...%3A1|240%3A1318
yes, you're right.
But it doesn't answer my question, i'm not familiar with the dealer side of things, how are sealed copies usually sourced? Where is one likely to come across them?
I been to a few stores here that have obviously resealed shit, cuase the covers are faded etc. I personally dont like buying selaed shit cus you cant sus out the record before you buy it...
Where you ask? I'll tell you. From the Vinyl Costco.
I've seen large quantities of sealed records at old warehouses/ used to be one stops, collections from old school DJ's who were in record pools, collections from people who worked in or owned record stores... Most of the times dealers who have large quantities of sealed stuff accumlate LP's over a period of time they get leads via running newspaper ads etc in other words you have to be deligent and LUCKY. Just my 2 cents...
In Bob's case, it's not that complicated. He just buys sealed records or records in shrink when he sees them. Record shops, shows, fleas, etc. Every few months, he does an auction. Simple as that.
strong game
Yeah they where fucked, cus they would make them too tight and warp the covers! But they where metal focussed so the only vinyl they respected was those shit ones with the heavy metal band picture discs and those fucked up clocks made out of records....
It was good to grab some funk/soul/jazz heat real cheap for a while, but the supply dwindled. They did come back with the dirt cheap hip hop vinyl for a while....but even then it was weird buying hip hop from a store full of headbangers.
Plus they shafted my mate who went to work for them to run the hip hop section (when they realised there was money in it, but that they had no clue). So since then i aint gone back...
Jesus Christ.
Now I know.
Just waiting for the onslaught of buy-it-nows...
http://cgi.ebay.com/BEACH-BOYS-PET-SOUND...1QQcmdZViewItem
The djude is unstoppable!
On the sealed record tip... it really makes no sense to me. Having received scratched, cracked, warped, sealed records in the past, I'm much more comfortable bidding on something opened and listed as clean. I wonder if people buy them and simply put them on ice.
Wow?!?!?
It's Bob With the Power to Cloud Men's Minds...