Crazy Priced Vinyl On EBAY

I had one of those, identical in every respect (including the 'near mint' quality'), except it had the usual orange lettering on the front, instead of turquoise.

It went for £250, which was nice, but blimey, what a difference a slight colour variation makes.

what a difference a slight colour variation makes.

http://www.popsike.com/php/quicksearch.php?searchtext=bleach+waterfront&x=0&y=0

Hmm, 300 copies, and yet 163 have been sold on ebay!

(I know, they might well be the same copy in some cases, sold on (and on))

£66 wanted for a 90's cassette tape of Hissing of Summer Lawns

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Joni-Mitchell-The-Hissing-Of-Summer-Lawns-Cassette-tape-1803R-/370780627114?pt=UK_Music_Cassettes_GL&hash=item56543f60aa

Same seller also wants £66 for a Coldplay CD single that's on discogs for £2.

.. or best offer..

Wow, that Zep album went for £2,000 in the end.

That's what I mean.. £250 for a perfect "orange lettering version", exactly the wsame as the turquoise letttering version in all other respects.

Dude this cassette guy is killing me!

lol their most expensive tape is Then Jerico's first album for £98!

I don't get his selling rationale at-all, he has 17,000 odd items for sale!

Man, Morrissey/Smiths collectors are a breed apart.

“ALL THIS RECORDS ARE USED i PLAYED IN THE CLUB ON THE BEACH FOR ABOUT 6 YEARS i HAVE ALL OF THEM THEY ARE ALL COLLECTIBLE YOU HAVE RECORDS THAT IF YOU KNOW WHAT TO LOOK FOR YOU CAND NAKE A FURTION i HAVE ABOUT 300 45 AND i HAVE ABOUT BETWEEN 2 AND 35 HUNDREAD lP ONLY SERIOUSE BUYER i WILL NOT SPLIT THIS LOT YOU BUY ALL AND I WILL LET YOU DO YOUR HOMEWORK AND DOUBLE YOUR MONEY”

ONLY SERIOUSE BUYER CAND NAKE A FURTION

link please!

where is a seriouse buyer who nakes furtion

BETWEEN 2 AND 35 HUNDREAD lP that might be a lot huh

http://collectorsfrenzy.com/details/390608648526/DAVID_BOWIE_TIME_Picture_Sleeve_WORLDS_RAREST__FINEST_CONDITION_EVER_OFFERED

Dude wants $666 for GBV Box - he's dreaming.
http://www.ebay.com/itm/261249990335?ssPageName=STRK:MESELX:IT&_trksid=p3984.m1555.l2649

sorry for the $400 reserve, but i don't really want to part with this set.

ha ha, yeah really, like, don't worry, dude, you won't have to.

Average price on Discogs is $133.88, with one recently going as low as $100

Ha, weird I just saw that myself and I haven't really checked eBay in at least a month. Maybe 2 min of browsing. I've it that box-spent $60 on it.

got

not crazy priced but gave me a lol
http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/171081645826

that is lovely

It almost makes me want to buy it.

Almost.

http://waxidermy.com/bbs/images/smilies/sip.gif

not very psychedelic at all

https://myspace.com/whitefeatherofficialpage/music/song/summer-days-80237665

Kind of Is This Desire? PJ Harvey-ish — not amazing or anything, but I listened to the whole song without much fuss.

I'm confused by this. The track on the Myspace page has the same title/artist name as the single being sold on eBay, but the singer is female and the track doesn't sound to me like it was recorded in 1983 (sounds more like late 1990s). Also, the account given on the eBay auction page doesn't match the more detailed account given here:

http://alansrobinson.150m.com/past9.html

(There's no mention of any female singer)

Sorry, the way I presented that was a bit misleading. The eBay page and more extensive web page account DO more or less match, give or take a few minor details. But there is no mention anywhere of any female singer. Yet the 1990s-sounding Myspace track with female singer singing in what sounds like Scandinavian accent has the exact same song title and artist name as the record being sold on eBay and apparently recorded in 1983.

Must be totally unconnected and just a coincidence that the band name and song title are the same.

Unless they are trying to offload unsold singles to Syd stans.

I wondered if it was some kind of low level scam to deliberately fake an obscure early '80s DIY release, i.e. actually recording and pressing it up and pretending it was done in 1983. I concluded that it is probably genuine. But, as you say, the stuff about what a DJ or local newspaper reviewer said could be completely made up.

There are some recordings of this Cookie character on YouTube and he sounds nothing like the person singing on the Myspace "Summer Days" track so I think that is a red herring.

the track on the myspace has vinyl rip characteristics (crackle at the beginning) so i dunno, not really that impt

yeah looks more like a weird coincidence

http://www.ebay.com/itm/RARE-TOMMY-JOHNSON-ALCOHOL-AND-JAKE-BLUES-RIDIN-HORSE-PARAMOUNT-1250-VG-/300969625287

One of two known copies apparently...

Yeah, I've been following this. Funny to think how the guy almost let it go for $4000 to a sneaking collector that picked up on the fact the seller didn't know what he had.

Not sure if it is necessarily 1 of 2, did you deduce that from the fact that someone in the questions mentioned digital copies seem to come from the same source? The price definitely suggests that it's one of two (for now) but was there really only one other known to exist before this one?

sneaky*

the only known copy belongs to Pete Whelan a longtime collector.

78 quarterly used to run a monthly feature called THE RAREST 78S in which they detailed who had which blues records and in roughly what condition. Not 100% complete and definitely not accurate anymore, but it gives a pretty good idea which records are, in fact, the rarest.

not just blues records -- also country records and jazz records.

https://s3.amazonaws.com/DinosaurDiscs/78+Quarterly+No+7.pdf

you can read here about Whelan's low-grade copy, and another copy sighted by a collector who was unable to acquire it from a "nutcase" in Cleveland..

Wow! So do you know of any collector circles right now clamoring about this?

well, people are very interested in watching it! the consensus seems to be that it's better than the other known copy, condition-wise, and that it could go for some ridiculously astronomical amount. i'm hanging out in jersey again this week with some collector dudes at yazoo HQ and i'm sure this will be a topic of conversation.

So this storage locker the seller says he acquired this from... I wish there was a way to track the history of that collection. Must have been a collector of note?

i dunno man. some people are just hoarders! it seems like the storage lockers are this guy's? and his wife is making him clear them out? he's certainly got some other good 78s up though. there are definitely people out there who collect outside of the normal collector networks..

i love that he's charging $4 for shipping.

Yeah, like with baseball cards "Sold for $79,999 + $2.50 Shipping"

well, people are very interested in watching it! the consensus seems to be that it's better than the other known copy, condition-wise, and that it could go for some ridiculously astronomical amount. i'm hanging out in jersey again this week with some collector dudes at yazoo HQ and i'm sure this will be a topic of conversation.

― ian, Monday, September 23, 2013 12:52 PM (28 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Oh yeah?? Listen to some "My Garden State" during your trip. I'll be nearby (childhood home) until Wednesday.

I didn't get to read the article yet- does it mention how many are thought to have been originally pressed?

i dunno man. some people are just hoarders! it seems like the storage lockers are this guy's? and his wife is making him clear them out? he's certainly got some other good 78s up though. there are definitely people out there who collect outside of the normal collector networks..

― ian, Monday, September 23, 2013 12:55 PM (31 minutes ago)

Yeah I think he bought up a locker somewhere and if so what a find.

my "1 of 2" source was that well known purveyor of truth Twitter, but what ian says seems reliable.