Crazy Priced Vinyl On EBAY

Not crazy, but it is kinnel.

There are loads of punk singles that go for hundreds of pounds -

Bad Brains - Pay To Cum
Crime - Frustration
a lot of singles featured on Killed By Death/Bloodstains comps (not all of them are that rare though)

I'm quite happy with my bootleg reissue of Pay To Cum, no need to splash out $1000 on an original copy...

anybody want to buy a bridge? (actually I've got that too)

cuz by then everyone wanted stereo and they didn't make as many. try and find a mono copy of pipers at the gates of dawn. go ahead, i dare you.

-- StanM (Stan10...), March 3rd, 2006 7:12 AM. (later)

From that auction's questions:

Q: Hi - will you guarantee anonymity for the winner of the auction?
Feb-25-06

A: Yes, I can GUARANTEE that the winner's name and their contact details will remain totally private. This information will not be disclosed to any third party unless I have the winner's consent.

"I don't want anyone to know what a fucking idiot I am for spending over twelve thousand pounds on a fucking Sex Pistols 7""

There HAD to have been some shill bidding going on with this one!! According to the average completed auction thingy the average price of an LP of Revolver was about $20. So not only does this person sell his for $460, but they also have two people asking them questions, one BEGGING them not to end the auction early. It's not even in mint condition!

1) daft sticker on the front
2) shrinkwrap on it

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.

(breath)

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

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

I bought a sealed record once (Big Trouble in Little China soundtrack, a few years before the Mondo reissue). I didn't buy it because it was sealed. It was just the only copy I could find at the time. It ended up being too warped to play.

I mean, a sealed vintage record, obviously.

the sealed video game market is pretty much the same as the sealed, graded comic book market. you own a perfect copy of a cultural artifact. that's it!

my copy of strange ladies by david axelrod was sealed when i bought it off ebay in 2001...

...for ~$35 after postage fees. i mean, even adjusted for inflation, this is a new breed of idiocy. i watched a really good thing on youtube about how one particular "company" jumpstarted the sealed video game market during covid and the arrival point they got to in the essay was: HEY IT'S OKAY TO BE INTO THIS AS A HOBBY BUT YOU'RE GONNA GET SWINDLED HOPE YOU LIKE WASTING MONEY.

I have some friends into old video games and while they're not looking for sealed stuff, it became lucrative to clean up your aging stash of games and sell them to the new collector market. Doing things like buying loose boxes and manuals for games where you don't have the box, maybe even buying the little foam inserts for the boxes to make it seem like a "new" copy. The one friend, in particular, had a lot of games he'd bought over the years as a novelty and ended up selling most of his stash at a video game collectors show for a pretty nice bankroll

Discogs this time, 68.5k for a Japanese Ray Manzarek solo record?

https://www.discogs.com/sell/item/3464667090

Obv a mistake, but still amusing, last one went for £15 in 2023

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/145823830635?_skw=pink&itmmeta=01JWPPKQ4APDH3SB8ENVPXJ2CN&hash=item21f3c7126b:g:wX4AAOSwJsRmZgvN

Or just buy a sealed one from Discogs for less than $50

i was so confused by the box it's in, i guess it's this?

https://rewindgrading.com/what-we-do/encapsulation-and-label

honestly i would hard pass on anything that has supposedly been authenticated by these bozos

record collectors are bad enough, but the people who come over from the "memorabilia" world are a whole different brand of ick

oh god, it was bad enough when it was comic books, even stupider when it was video games, and now it’s moved to vhs

I’d hope this is the end, but as more things become digital, the physical veblen artifact effect is only going to continue

going to put this early Jeff Koons work (no, I’m not advocating for Jeff Koons) here for reasons: https://www.moma.org/collection/works/81090

lol at the idea of “slabbing” a cassette

having said that i am quite taken aback at some of the prices paid for certain cassette issues

The cassette is in the format of a cassette and is released in the year 1970.

Has there been a discussion on the uselessness of AI-generated eBay descriptions? This one is a classic. I have been looking at auctions for old Walkmen and 95% of them have the same useless slop.

And it’s incorrect since the description elsewhere says that particular cassette dares from 1986. (And from the looks could be later than that since it’s from the “clear cassette” era which started around 1986).