I don't know. It sounds pretty half-assed to me. 87 discs missing and he won't tell you which ones. In paper sleeves without the original jewel cases. Lots of stray discs from incomplete box sets. Doesn't sound very collectible to me.
― o. nate, Sunday, 29 January 2017 03:09 (seven years ago) link
oh, missed that, lol
― sleeve, Sunday, 29 January 2017 03:23 (seven years ago) link
p sure most of these cds go for ~2 dollars on discogs
feel bad for the guy and his delusions ;_;
― niels, Sunday, 29 January 2017 10:02 (seven years ago) link
I just wonder what he's basing these numbers on. Median value on Discogs? Highest value on Discogs? The fact that he needs exactly $10,000 and needs it right away because this time the bookie really isn't screwing around?
― Wimmels, Sunday, 29 January 2017 13:57 (seven years ago) link
lol I had a hard time selling actual legit rare CDs on eBay in recent years. this dude is sellin' a whole buncha Led Zeppelin IVs
― Neanderthal, Sunday, 29 January 2017 15:31 (seven years ago) link
^^^^
― the late great, Sunday, 29 January 2017 19:36 (seven years ago) link
xp I don't - he bought the CDs because he wanted them, and now feels entitled to a profit. Sad!
― attention vampire (MatthewK), Sunday, 29 January 2017 19:45 (seven years ago) link
You would think, if you're a person who believes the above collection is indeed worth ~10k in value, you would do the following:
1.) Email the guy to meet him in person to inspect the collection for yourself.2.) Book a roundtrip plane trip, car rental, and hotel stay (if needed).3.) Inspect his shit to see what's missing.
Has to be worth the $700-800 in expenses if you're seriously considering this.
― Rod Steel (musicfanatic), Monday, 30 January 2017 00:00 (seven years ago) link
He's come down to an $8,000 asking price now...
http://losangeles.craigslist.org/lac/emd/5961068094.html
― Loud guitars shit all over "Bette Davis Eyes" (NYCNative), Monday, 30 January 2017 05:19 (seven years ago) link
he might get more responses if he actually put contact info in the listing
― Neanderthal, Monday, 30 January 2017 05:23 (seven years ago) link
he actually looks like he copied this from an ebay listing
― Neanderthal, Monday, 30 January 2017 05:24 (seven years ago) link
Well. He had sold it before
― I hear from this arsehole again, he's going in the river (James Morrison), Monday, 30 January 2017 10:02 (seven years ago) link
federal marshals busting down a down a door with a battering ram and shotguns to rescue the' o brother where art thou' soundtrack
― nomar, Monday, 30 January 2017 15:24 (seven years ago) link
lol @ this motherfucker
― marcos, Monday, 30 January 2017 16:13 (seven years ago) link
600 cds w/o cases for $10,000 gtfo
The Doors- The Doors/Strange Days/Morrison Hotel/Waiting For The Sun/L.A.
looool
― marcos, Monday, 30 January 2017 16:14 (seven years ago) link
Radiohead- Ok Computer
― marcos, Monday, 30 January 2017 16:15 (seven years ago) link
i mean hardly any of this shit is "rare" in any sense
― marcos, Monday, 30 January 2017 16:30 (seven years ago) link
I'd be surprised if I got even $150 for that collection at Half Price Books.
― erry red flag (f. hazel), Monday, 30 January 2017 22:40 (seven years ago) link
$8,000 folks, take it or leave it
― Benylin Ascent (NickB), Monday, 30 January 2017 22:58 (seven years ago) link
he still has no contact info in the ad lol
― Neanderthal, Monday, 30 January 2017 23:03 (seven years ago) link
This has got to be some sort of wind-up, see who takes the bait kind of thing...
― henry s, Monday, 30 January 2017 23:09 (seven years ago) link
lol f. hazel's response is what I was thinking
either someone glanced through it and grabbed a handful of cds that looked decent that they'd want, or someone already did some smart cherry-picking and grabbed the actual rarities, right?
there are a few things in there that might be difficult to find if you're looking for a cd copy! but uhhh who is really tearing their hair out trying to find a cd copy of something in 2017?
― mh 😏, Tuesday, 31 January 2017 19:50 (seven years ago) link
there was a store (since relocated) in mpls (shuga) (they still sell on ebay) that would mark vinyl up to the most ridiculous prices, i think this strategy can pay off in two ways:
1) every once in awhile some dummy will actually bite and you'll make some ridiculous hundreds of dollars on a record you bought at a garage sale for 50 cents, effectively earning more than you would doing a normal $4 markup on a bunch of records, plus saving you a lot of time/etc because it's only one transaction and mailing
2) i would find that, browsing through these $300 lutheran college men's choir records from the 60s, all of a sudden you'd think "oh yeah $30 for a NM+ (he LOVED NM+, everything was NM+) of Every Picture Tells a Story by Rod Stewart that's not bad", so you'd get a weird stockholm syndrome and then maybe buy something that was only 2X normal price instead of 20X normal price
― blonde redheads have more fun (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Tuesday, 31 January 2017 20:00 (seven years ago) link
(raises hand shamefully)
stuff like the Alvin Lucier especially I prefer on CD. Some nice rare stuff in that list but I'd bet it's been cherry picked already.
― sleeve, Tuesday, 31 January 2017 20:00 (seven years ago) link
you'd get a weird stockholm syndrome and then maybe buy something that was only 2X normal price instead of 20X normal price
― attention vampire (MatthewK), Tuesday, 31 January 2017 20:06 (seven years ago) link
imo there's a 50/50 chance that the missing ones are just ones someone who wasn't a supercollector grabbed to listen to, like the missing items are all of the zepplin/rolling stones variety
― mh 😏, Tuesday, 31 January 2017 20:08 (seven years ago) link
The CDs have been upgraded to Very Good Condition (some even Mint). They have recently been inspected, cleaned and graded by an Expert of 40 years in the business.
― dollar general (am0n), Tuesday, 31 January 2017 20:08 (seven years ago) link
cleaned
Noooooo
― sleeve, Tuesday, 31 January 2017 20:11 (seven years ago) link
they wiped the cat piss and spiders off
― mh 😏, Tuesday, 31 January 2017 20:12 (seven years ago) link
Good, related thread re: wacko pricing on LPs: the pathos of unsold stock
― stein beck ii: the wrath of grapes (Doctor Casino), Tuesday, 31 January 2017 20:16 (seven years ago) link
― sleeve, Tuesday, January 31, 2017 3:11 PM (fifteen minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
this. when I see that something has been 'cleaned' I don't bid on it. Just leave it alone, grade accurately, and let me clean it if i choose to clean it once it's mine
― Wimmels, Tuesday, 31 January 2017 20:29 (seven years ago) link
i love dirty finds, i found a dusty and dirty early issue copy (no name on the cover) of Neil Young's s/t album and cleaned it at home and it came out sounding sublime. same thing w/a copy i dug up of 'mr tambourine man' by the byrds. both of them a buck apiece.
― nomar, Tuesday, 31 January 2017 21:59 (seven years ago) link
big difference between cleaning LPs vs. "cleaning" CDs
― sleeve, Tuesday, 31 January 2017 22:07 (seven years ago) link
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anchoring― attention vampire (MatthewK), Tuesday, January 31, 2017 2:06 PM (two hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
yeah exactly, thx i wasn't familiar w/that term
― blonde redheads have more fun (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Tuesday, 31 January 2017 22:09 (seven years ago) link
yeah for sure...an expert with a bottle of windex and a paper towel i'm guessing. over 40 years in the business of cleaning cds, cds having been around for 32 years.
― nomar, Tuesday, 31 January 2017 22:10 (seven years ago) link
oh, gotcha - I was thinking more of those "sand it down" type of operations, kiss of death for CDs imo
― sleeve, Tuesday, 31 January 2017 22:16 (seven years ago) link
ugh yeah those. not sure why cleaning is very necessary beyond getting some gunk off, cd players from twenty years ago would skip bc of a speck of dust, the newer models will play through almost any defect that isn't a gouge ime.
― nomar, Tuesday, 31 January 2017 22:19 (seven years ago) link
over 40 years in the business of cleaning cds, cds having been around for 32 years.
― nomar, Tuesday, January 31, 2017 4:10 PM (eleven minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
he was part of the beta program
― blonde redheads have more fun (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Tuesday, 31 January 2017 22:22 (seven years ago) link
so those buffing/sanding things aren't good for CDs? i was thinking of picking one up ...
― the late great, Tuesday, 31 January 2017 22:26 (seven years ago) link
We used to do resurfacing at a record store I worked at. It wasn't bad really, although really deep gouges and I imagine repeated use would not be ideal. But it saved some scratched-up discs of my own.
― Loud guitars shit all over "Bette Davis Eyes" (NYCNative), Tuesday, 31 January 2017 22:30 (seven years ago) link
xp more that is ruins any resale value, it might be of use in extreme cases of scratching
― sleeve, Tuesday, 31 January 2017 22:36 (seven years ago) link
i don't even sell CDs that need to be cleaned. they should be clean already!
― scott seward, Tuesday, 31 January 2017 22:37 (seven years ago) link
yeah that is kind of the catch-22 here, if this is a well cared-for collection and stored in the little sleeves, how the hell did they get to the point of needing cleaning?!
see above cat pee and spiders comment
― mh 😏, Tuesday, 31 January 2017 22:47 (seven years ago) link
here's the thing. especially online. if a CD is actually worth more than 5 or 10 bucks than the people buying them want a copy that's like new. anything less than that ain't gonna be worth much. its not worth the aggravation to sell scratched CDs. they'll sit online or in my store forever.
― scott seward, Tuesday, 31 January 2017 22:56 (seven years ago) link
Remember too that itunes has scratch doctor thing for importing CDs--it's slow, but it works.
― "I must believe that my charm was not in my ass." (C. Grisso/McCain), Tuesday, 31 January 2017 22:58 (seven years ago) link
Got a pile of cds, dvds and books delivered today and it still makes me so happy. I could save a fair amount of money by going more digital but I love this too much.
― Robert Adam Gilmour, Friday, 3 February 2017 17:25 (seven years ago) link
― the late great, Tuesday, January 31, 2017 5:26 PM (three days ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
ime they do not work and in fact have ruined discs
― marcos, Friday, 3 February 2017 17:29 (seven years ago) link
(i've never owned one but i saw them used in a media library at a university where i worked)
― marcos, Friday, 3 February 2017 17:30 (seven years ago) link
Best Buy Isn't
Best Buy has just told music suppliers that it will pull CDs from its stores come July 1. At one point, Best Buy was the most powerful music merchandiser in the U.S., but nowadays it's a shadow of its former self, with a reduced and shoddy offering of CDs. Sources suggest that the company's CD business is nowadays only generating about $40 million annually. While it says it's planning to pull out CDs, Best Buy will continue to carry vinyl for the next two years, keeping a commitment it made to vendors. The vinyl will now be merchandised with the turntables, sources suggest.
I was killing time before an appointment at a Best Buy not too long ago; went looking for said vinyl and finally it in a dusty corner of the store in a stack on a shelf next to some Crosley turntables. So...Good Luck With 2 More Years Of That.
― Never Learn To Mike Love (C. Grisso/McCain), Saturday, 3 February 2018 16:03 (six years ago) link