Crazy Priced Vinyl On EBAY

elaborate?

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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?

that's what i was thinking.

low grade?

"jacket only"

ian has it. It would be a very wrong and bad thing to do though.

Yeah, but eBay has been a Deadwood-like dystopia of martial law since like forever. I think if you can beat the system, do it, so long as you're not actually fucking anyone over (at least not anyone who deserves it).

Something has always been fishy about seller "any_book" and they've been around forever.

i've seen some "sleeve only" listings on discogs before but damned if i can remember what. maybe that was their scam?

Maybe they only have a sleeve and are hoping for someone that only has a record.

(I did see someone trying and failing to sell a mono SgtPepper in a stereo sleeve, I had the other-way-round and proposed a swap, all was good!)

http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_l51zjpoB9k1qzyxdfo1_500.jpg

http://www.ebay.com/itm/Lili-Ivanova-My-Old-Friend-BalkanTon-vinyl-LP-Retro-/251131468852?pt=UK_Records&hash=item3a789a1c34#ht_1690wt_1182

jeez louise

http://www.ebay.com/itm/THE-SINGLES-ADOLF-HITLER-MERCY-RARE-7-UNKNOWN-DIY-PUNK-ROCK-1978-1-KNOWN-COPY-/120978056486?pt=UK_Records&hash=item1c2adaa526#ht_999wt_1086

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Le_115MLpxI&feature=relmfu

lol if someone whips out a shoebox of them in a fortnight's time

not vinyl but still... wtf

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Now-That-s-Call-Music-4-/190739438375

I had no idea these early Now... CDs were so rare.

I had to do a double take, I thought for sure it was a BIN, but people have bid it that high, WTF??? You could buy all of those artists on cd or record for under $20 .

Those early NOW! CD's are rare because at the time they were released (84/85) the CD versions sold in miniscule quantities compared the vinyl versions - The early ones were only single CD's and only had a small selection of tracks compared to double vinyl versions..

Subsequently, saddo Now! completists have to pay top prices to complete their collections...

ended at £333

I seem to remember reading an article in Record Collector that Now 4 is rarer than the others, for some reason.

You could buy all of those artists on cd or record for under $20.

That's what I was thinking too. It's like K-Tel through the looking glass: "It would cost you about $7 if you tried to buy these songs separately!"

Now! completists?

Do they display these things behind glass for their guests? What is the motivation?

http://www.guardian.co.uk/music/2012/may/10/saint-etienne-words-music-review

In 2005, when Saint Etienne's last studio album Tales from Turnpike House was released, rumour spread that the band was about to split up. It turned out to be false: since Tales from Turnpike House, the band have put out a Christmas album, a film soundtrack, a complete reworking of their debut album Foxbase Alpha by producer Richard X and – surely the kind of thing you could only really imagine appearing in a Saint Etienne discography – an EP issued solely to those who'd responded to an online appeal by band member Bob Stanley, looking for the handful of albums he needed to complete his collection of Now That's What I Call Music compilations.

Popsike is only about vinyl, but by my reckoning that Saint Etienne Now 4 is probably 'worth more' than the "Now 4" comp...

$750 for a Germs shirt. Free shipping and free paint holes/splatters.

http://www.ebay.com/itm/rare-punk-rock-70s-tee-shirt-/370313548975?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_0&hash=item56386854af

2 Kubricks wanted for an Indian YMO 7 inch.

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/YELLOW-MAGIC-ORCHESTRA-YMO-Computer-Game-mega-rare-INDIAN-INDIA-prs-PS-45-/400329791149?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_0&hash=item5d3583d6ad

I don't know the intricacies of used record grading, but based on the photo I can't imagine how anyone could say the sleeve is in "very good" condition.

It's like coin collecting grading. That sleeve is, indeed, in standard record grading, a 'very good'.

'Excellent' means not damaged in any way, but maybe small creases,
'Mint' means perfect, shop quality.

conversely, 'Good' means it's not actualy ripped, and it might have previous owner's name in it in marker-pen...

IME "Good" = most of the sleeve is basically present, if not all in one piece. Ripped a bit + marker pen is VG-

I mean, in terms of the vinyl itself, Good basically means "do not buy this record".

I remember a book dealer once glumly saying to me "'good' is not very good". :(

I used to collect coins when I was little and hadn't got into music much.

I was going to sell some of the 'duplicates' I had but when I told my mum that the victorian penny I had that was worn flat but still you could see what it was, the date, etc was 'Good Condition', she had an absolute fit thinking I was trying to defraud whoever was going to buy it. She wouldn't budge, even afer I showed her the grading guide, and woldn't allow it unless I described it as 'terrible'. So, I didn't bother...

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/CLIFF-RICHARD-SPANISH-HARLEM-EVERGREEN-TREE-RARE-78-RPM-RECORD-1963-/370696526649?_trksid=p2045573.m2102&_trkparms=aid%3D555003%26algo%3DPW.CAT%26ao%3D1%26asc%3D33%26meid%3D3825187453417546901%26pid%3D100034%26prg%3D1031%26rk%3D2%26

Hmm, now this is £26 at the moment.

Guess the final price?

(I am not selling this or interested in buying it, btw)

(I did put this on the SHELLAC thread, but that's ILoveVinyl so let's open it up...)

Only 900 copies world wife signed by flea including a snipping of his used bass string

http://collectorsfrenzy.com/details/261144478676/Flea_Helen_Burns_Vinyl_Signed_Bass_String

Black Sabbath - Master of Reality, ORIGINAL MASTER TAPES rare originals!!!

Uhh, have a look at the box dude, a Trident studios 1/4" copy made in 1980 ain't the ORIGINAL MASTER TAPES.

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Black-Sabbath-Master-of-Reality-ORIGINAL-MASTER-TAPES-rare-originals-/230893489136?pt=UK_Music_Other_Music_Formats_ET&hash=item35c2530bf0

"original master" is even unchecked on the box :|

Shel Talmy put the multitrack masters of My Generation on Ebay back in 2001 in order to get the Who camp moving on a proper remix/remaster/reissue. Wonder if this is some sort of similar gambit by the producer/engineer (but yeah, obviously using nth generation tapes...)

Looking at the box it's just a 1/4 inch tape.. which means it's not multitrack masters...

From the box info it looks like a simple copy of the master tape made either for listening to, or maybe for making a re-issue pressing.

Either way, if it's on Ampex tape as the box says, then it's highly likely the tape is screwed anyway as most Ampex tape stock from that period suffers badly from sticky shed making the tape almost unplayable....

Sticky shed?

(I know..)

Not vinyl, but still crazy.
http://www.ebay.com/itm/SPIRITUALIZED-LADIES-GENTLEMEN-12-x-CD3-BOXSET-Original-1st-PRESS-/350684749952?pt=Music_CDs&hash=item51a670a080

Love that "Damien Hirst inspired design" in the description. No, it's "inspired" by any regular pack of prescription tablets.

endtimes...

http://www.ebay.com/itm/Eddie-Vedder-PEARL-JAM-quot-ten-quot-Original-Sealed-1991-EPIC-47857-US-CD-in-Long-Box/390564163547?hash=item5aef702fdb

http://www.collectorsfrenzy.com/details/221204325335/BILLY_NICHOLLS_Would_You_Believe_LP_1968_UK_1st_MINT

^^ kinda hate anyone who has this much money to spend on a record

of course i hate the person who collects CD longboxes too tbh

that Spiritualized one up there is completely batshit. I remember seeing those in the Virgin Megastore sale years after the album came out

assume the PJ one is too but I can't actually visualise what a CD longbox looks like exactly so for all I know they might have made next to none of them

is the guy writing the Billy Nicholls blurb the same as skot's JUST SHUT THE FUCK UP I FUCKING HATE YOU guy? if not he might as well be

Longboxes weren't phased out for another couple of years, so the millions of people that bought Ten in 1991-92 in the US (because iirc, no other countries used longboxes) bought it in a longbox.

Endtimes indeed. That's the most baffling auction result I've ever seen, including, but not limited to, those auctions where people paid thousands for a potato that faintly resembled Richard Marx.

i see lots of japanese cd artwork that is longbox shape. is annoying when you have to fit it into square spaces.