Crazy Priced Vinyl On EBAY

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=360473125077

$4999? Bargain!

Convince me that it is (or isn't) ok for me to spend £50 on an LP...

It's OK, if you can afford it. But what will you do with it once you have got it?

I get a bit dispirited when I've paid proper money for an LP which ends up getting 3 plays and going on the shelves with the rest. That seems to happen too often.

(These days I have more fun scouring the cheap bins for £1 or £2 LPs which look unfamiliar. I'm just as likely to find something amazing that was as shelling out £££ for things other people seem to want. But that's hardly the point of this thread so feel free to ignore me.)

I've never spent more than £25 on an LP but I could be persuaded to go to £50 if it was something REALLY AWESOME, but that's because I'm OK with just having things on CD (or even mp3) if they are hard to find on vinyl.

Thesedays, those hard-to-find things get sold on once I've listened and either 'saved' or decided not worth it.

I'm with Tim.... finding obscure nuggets in the midst of crap in bargain bins is my biggest pleasure in record buying....

I'm with Tim.... finding obscure nuggets in the midst of crap in bargain bins is my biggest pleasure in record buying....

this is my world.

tis the best part of music buying ..

What genres do you guys get the best success doing that with, though?

Old house music, you can find gems for $1

you can get great country records for a buck or two apiece.

Yeah, 1970s country keeps on giving the value. It continually amazes me how good some of the records by neglected c-listers can be. You have to be prepared to buy some stinkers though, they're often indistinguishable from the gems.

When I started collecting records, getting on for 30 years ago, 1970s reggae was similarly proper cheap. I wish I'd had a bit more money back then.

man, the idea of cheap seventies reggae just thrills me. i wish. almost all reggae records, save some classics that have been pressed/booted a million times, are just plain hard to find in the states.

i love when people stumble upon my reggae 45s. its like they are dreaming. where am i, they say? pinch me. i could just put it all up online and make more money, but i'm nice.

you kinda have to be a reggae dude to appreciate them though. and those people don't come around every day.

around here i'm forever picking up weird and wonderful post-punk and new wave stuff for a euro or two...

shame i'm not into soca, as a local shop has recently dumped hundreds of soca 12"s in their bargain section for a euro a pop (correction, probably a good thing i'm not into soca..)

I didn't buy it. Yet.

I greatly enjoy trawling secondhand collections for gems amidst the mundane too, but this instance is in the obsessive completism category, which is rather different.

obassive completism is a dangerous pitfall of collecting (anything)...

there are very few artists whose complete output is worth owning.. and i tend to avoid completism unless i can pick up the non-essential parts for not-very-much..

A couple of months ago I decided to free up some space in my collection, and the first thing I did was release the non-essential completist parts of my collection back into the wild...

http://collectorsfrenzy.com/Details.aspx?id=300739151405

what in the name of fuck

Recently sold on ebay for £60

@ mark g : dont you ever sleep !?

[i'm not working - hence my excuse .. .]

I slept at one minute past my last message.

http://collectorsfrenzy.com/Details.aspx?id=320945795698

I didn't know Stereolab fans had this money.

goodness

the band were already collector bait by the time of this record, right? wonder if whoever at the plant did two or three of these with a mind to shifting them for big buxx at a later date. maybe they went to the band tho who knows

Like a Third Man records kind of thing? I mean, I don't know if thats what even those guys intend.
Still, way higher than I think anyone would have expected it to complete at.

Sorry, can't put myself into the mindset of a person excited enough to spend this kind of money on this item.

http://collectorsfrenzy.com/Details.aspx?id=150867801888

That's a notorious collectable, I remember reading about it a few times in Record Collector, though I can't remember the story now as to why it is so sought after.

so sad:

http://www.ebay.com/csc/Records-/306/i.html?LH_Complete=1&_nkw=jack%20white&_sop=3

someone should rent an apartment next to that store of his and just buy everything they put out as soon as they put it out.

maybe someone would know the answer to this... why are some new and used records on amazon priced at $999 even though they're not priced that way elsewhere

f jack white, lamest

hate that guy.

people who spend a thousand dollars on jerk white flexidiscs should be put to death.

or maybe they should just spend their money on, you know, like 200 really cool records that they will enjoy that will last a lifetime.

I'm convinced that the people that buy into those sorts of things don't actually like music. They're simply collectors of "stuff."

billstevejim: they might be listed automatically at that price. You can get software doo-dahs to automate the process of listing on Amazon and such, especially in bulk, and there is probably some default setting when there is no existing price to match or such a situation.

there was a cool blog or something I read a while back that explained how booksellers use this software and end up having medical books on sale for like $100,000

Yeah there is a prgram/company called "Monsoon" as one example that you can set percentages of mark-up or mark-down to be competitive with other sellers listed per SKU.

program*

not ebay but i was digging around for this album online and went to amazon, and saw this. i feel like there should be an amazon thread for crazy priced vinyl too.

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v212/etienne_saint/ScreenShot2012-08-28at10209PM.png

See the comments above. Usually that can be attributed to neglect of the entry and the percentage at which a program like "Monsoon" will mark something up or down.

And sometimes it's a nutjob. It depends on the ridiculous ratio.

I want to get that album, too. I've been casually looking for it since it's release but never stumbled upon it used like I had hoped (CD or vinyl).

One could potentially turn the brainless automation of price matching software to ones advantage in such cases...

elaborate?

http://1gabba.in/pics3/altern8.jpg

One could potentially turn the brainless automation of price matching software to ones advantage in such cases...

― NWOFHM! Overlord (krakow), Wednesday, August 29, 2012 3:15 AM (7 hours ago)

Like if someone actually purchases something at an unrealistic cost? Or are you just talking about when the software is used as intended?

i think the suggestion is to post a copy of an item at a low price and wait for someone else's software to 'beat' it so you can purchase it? but the problem remains how to list an item without any fear of it 'selling'

Outrageous shipping costs maybe?