Crazy Priced Vinyl On EBAY

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Yeah, people can get a little crazy for Beatle stuff, but I am looking at another copy of Revolver that sold for about $20, and it's actually shrink wrapped and still COMPLETELY wrapped (instead of the wrap just being left on for show). Other completely sealed copies go for $50 or less. So is a Kmart sticker and some leftover shrink wrap worth $440? Or more, considering the shape of the record isn't even that fabulous in the first place?

― musically (musically), Monday, 13 March 2006 10:23 (eighteen years ago) link

It's the "Contains the hits" sticker on the front that did it I reckon.

― mark grout (mark grout), Monday, 13 March 2006 10:27 (eighteen years ago) link

how does "shill" bidding work? If a seller bids on his own stuff and winds up the winner, doesn't he have to eat fees on the inflated sale without anyone to sell it to? he could be out $20-$30 if he was the $400 bidder.

― gritty sanskrit (sanskrit), Monday, 13 March 2006 12:56 (eighteen years ago) link

Shillers are usually pretty good at bidding enough to raise the price without actually winning. I suppose if they ever have to eat up the cost it doesn't compare to the amount of money they made through other artifically inflated auctions. Maybe I'm wrong and it really was worth that much, but I simply don't see it.

― musically (musically), Monday, 13 March 2006 13:06 (eighteen years ago) link

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/vinyl-LP-BELLE-SEBASTIAN-tigermilk-ELECTRIC-HONEY_W0QQitemZ4847375447QQcategoryZ2260QQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem

― Last Of The Famous International Pfunkboys (Kerr), Monday, 13 March 2006 17:06 (eighteen years ago) link

That copy of "Revolver" is a cut-out, fergodsake!

― morris pavilion (samjeff), Monday, 13 March 2006 17:09 (eighteen years ago) link

Tigermilk has been known to go for £750 or something in times past, hasn't it?

― DJ Mencap (DJ Mencap), Monday, 13 March 2006 17:24 (eighteen years ago) link

Was that before or after the reissue?

― Last Of The Famous International Pfunkboys (Kerr), Monday, 13 March 2006 17:28 (eighteen years ago) link

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The Beatles auction looks legitimate to me. Beatles collectors are obsessed with--and even specialize in--such minutiae as sleeve stickers. The condition of the record and everything else becomes moot. If you look at most of the heavy bidders for this auction, they all seem interested in Beatles stuff with "unusual" stickers.

Now whether or not that makes that copy of Revolver "worth" $400+ is another discussion entirely.

― r3000, Monday, 13 March 2006 17:35 (eighteen years ago) link

In that 'averages' list on the link above on the word "this"

(breath)

One of the albums is 'evident' as an original pressing, and was $240 or thereabouts before the ad was cancelled/rescheduled.

― mark grout (mark grout), Monday, 13 March 2006 17:37 (eighteen years ago) link

Rank self-promotion.

― Chris Ott (Chris Ott), Monday, 13 March 2006 17:41 (eighteen years ago) link

Got to say, the writing on the white label's sleeve looks uncannily like Morrissey's own.

Unless all his fans copy his handwriting style too. (which is quite possible)

― mark grout (mark grout), Monday, 13 March 2006 17:48 (eighteen years ago) link

yo, if anyone wants a butcher cover i got da hookup--$1200.

― Special Agent Gene Krupa (orion), Monday, 13 March 2006 17:59 (eighteen years ago) link

Any good stickers?

― morris pavilion (samjeff), Monday, 13 March 2006 18:02 (eighteen years ago) link

no good stickers, i'm afraid.

― Special Agent Gene Krupa (orion), Monday, 13 March 2006 18:06 (eighteen years ago) link

The value of Disco Inferno records is really getting out of hand.