Not ebay, but ouch...
https://www.reddit.com/r/VinylCollectors/comments/4d0c4o/selling_a_part_of_dads_collection_tomorrow_400/
― Evan, Sunday, 3 April 2016 23:30 (seven years ago) link
http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/351301968054?clk_rvr_id=1013042965816&rmvSB=true
THIS TITLE IS SO RARE THAT THERE IS ONLY 2 OTHER SELLERS WORLDWIDE SELLING THIS RARE JAPAN PRESSING AND THE ARE SELLING IT FOR OVER $2000
― niels, Monday, 11 April 2016 13:30 (seven years ago) link
serious o_O when i saw this...
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Slapp-Happy-2005-11-25/dp/B01A9KNE9O/ref=sr_1_10?ie=UTF8&qid=1460381610&sr=8-10&keywords=slapp+happy
― no lime tangier, Monday, 11 April 2016 13:35 (seven years ago) link
None available? Was it one of those crazy prices generated by those systems resellers use?
― Evan, Monday, 11 April 2016 13:37 (seven years ago) link
that was what i was wondering. there is another version for around 50... but that one^ is a JAPANESE release.
or you could just get the twofer with desperate straights for a pittance in comparison to those.
― no lime tangier, Monday, 11 April 2016 13:46 (seven years ago) link
Discogs has the japanese CD for reasonable.
It's basically one of those crazy prices generated by those systems resellers use
― Mark G, Monday, 11 April 2016 13:50 (seven years ago) link
Based on the limitations of those programs or just the settings, they'll sometimes price things insanely high if there aren't other listings for sale that the program can calibrate against.
― Evan, Monday, 11 April 2016 14:56 (seven years ago) link
What are these systems? I've always wondered how these prices came about
― Duke, Monday, 11 April 2016 18:40 (seven years ago) link
worth it (no exaggeration): http://www.ebay.com/itm/DON-PULLEN-MILFORD-GRAVES-concert-at-yale-orig-66-PAINTED-private-free-jazz-/182058170754?hash=item2a63833982:g:T4kAAOSwoudW61DH
― Montgomery Burns' Jazz (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Monday, 11 April 2016 18:50 (seven years ago) link
Resellers use them so they don't have to manually readjust their many many listings since the market value will fluctuate to something higher or lower than what an item was worth when they originally listed. It changes based on average prices of other current listings for the same item. It might readjust to something really wonky if there are no longer any other listings or activity to compare to.
xpost
― Evan, Monday, 11 April 2016 18:55 (seven years ago) link
would love to know if there is anyone out there that actually pays those ridiculous prices
gonna assume it's the same deal with this...
http://www.amazon.com/Microminiature-Love-Michael-Yonkers-Band/dp/B0056H0RI2
...since i just scored a still sealed copy for the equivalent of 7 or so pounds
― no lime tangier, Tuesday, 12 April 2016 07:55 (seven years ago) link
"Just might appeal to fans of The Fuggs,Stooges,Sonic Youth and Geordie."
― Mark G, Tuesday, 12 April 2016 11:44 (seven years ago) link
craigslist: http://i.imgur.com/BnlVmGM.jpg
― Evan, Sunday, 29 May 2016 16:26 (seven years ago) link
http://i.imgur.com/BnlVmGM.jpg
nice
― illegal economic migration (Tracer Hand), Sunday, 29 May 2016 16:31 (seven years ago) link
Windowlicker 12" - "We sell this record with an exclusive autograph of APHEX TWIN himself on the front cover!!!"
https://www.discogs.com/sell/item/177199771
€8,000.00 + shipping
― neilasimpson, Wednesday, 1 June 2016 08:38 (seven years ago) link
so was trying to track down a vinyl copy of Into the Unknown by Bad Religion...couldn't find anything less than about $150-200...so I saw somewhere it had been reissued as part of a vinyl box set of the Bad Religion catalog and found this on Amazon:
https://smile.amazon.com/gp/offer-listing/B004EC5IY8/ref=sr_1_1_twi_lp__1_olp?ie=UTF8&qid=1468252709&sr=8-1&keywords=into+the+unknown+bad+religion
like at a certain point...this is a box of fucking Bad Religion records!! how much could that possibly mean to you, how often would you listen to this?, also this is all available on spotify or itunes or youtube or whatever, and I'm a vinyl guy but like are you gonna get into the deep audiophile sonics of an 80s punk record that much???
fucking crazy
― Steve Gunn Mann-Dude (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Monday, 11 July 2016 16:13 (seven years ago) link
i don't know, Bad Religion were HUGE in southern california in the 90s when I went to high school ... and a lot of their fans from back then probably own car dealerships in orange county now, so they've got dollars to burn.
― tylerw, Monday, 11 July 2016 16:50 (seven years ago) link
just saw this one -- $16,000: http://www.ebay.com/itm/the-freewheelin-BOB-DYLAN-withdrawn-LP/272275305918?_trksid=p2047675.c100009.m1982&_trkparms=aid%3D777000%26algo%3DABA.MBE%26ao%3D1%26asc%3D20131227121020%26meid%3D0f38d5ad24ef49a39eb532666eaeb031%26pid%3D100009%26rk%3D1%26rkt%3D1%26mehot%3Dpp%26sd%3D371662826703&rmvSB=true
The rarest - and most sought after - of all Bob Dylan albums.
That's right - this is the 1A matrix pressing which plays the four tracks that were withdrawn. It is NOT the Canadian pressing or timing strip issue which list the deleted tracks but play the standard cuts. The labels and cover here show the replacement tracks - which is consistent with the few other mono copies that have turned up over the past fifty years. However, check the picture which shows the vinyl for Side 1: the middle track is "A Hard Rain's A-Gonna Fall", and you should be able to see it is the widest band, since it is
― tylerw, Monday, 11 July 2016 16:52 (seven years ago) link
discogs sellers are asking between £380 and £400 for that Bad Religion box, which is still like twentysomething quid per LP but there's an affluent grownup punk market for it yeah
― Pat Umunna Glass (DJ Mencap), Monday, 11 July 2016 18:21 (seven years ago) link
You guys, when you see prices like that on Amazon it's usually the result of an auto pricing program that resellers use to keep their online marketplace items relevant to current demand without them having to manually re-upload listings. When this happens it's often some sort of silly error or result of a listing that has no comparison, thereby generating a really high wonky price.
― Evan, Monday, 11 July 2016 18:28 (seven years ago) link
I used to work for a store that used one. Listings would increase or decrease by certain percentages to remain competitive as demand fluctuates. I didn't work with it directly so I'm not sure exactly what neglected settings make this kind of thing happen so often specifically.
― Evan, Monday, 11 July 2016 18:31 (seven years ago) link
Honestly in the post Shuga world anything is possible IMO, like here's a 60 second Ford Station Wagon commercial from the 50s read by some dude from the show Wagon Train, a little more than the Bad Religion box but can you really put a price on something so rare and precious??
http://www.shugarecords.com/ford-motors-ward-bond-station-wagon-transcription-lp-vg-1959-acetate-usa-cbs
― Steve Gunn Mann-Dude (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Monday, 11 July 2016 18:41 (seven years ago) link
also listed it for even more on ebay
http://www.ebay.com/itm/FORD-MOTORS-WARD-BOND-station-wagon-transcription-LP-VG-1959-Acetate-USA-CBS-/351077069094
god that guy is such a scumbag
― Steve Gunn Mann-Dude (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Monday, 11 July 2016 18:45 (seven years ago) link
On Amazon though you'll see that happen quite often and for much sillier items at much sillier prices. It's certainly possible that it's a shuga records style nutjob just unlikely when on Amazon (unless there were some way to show that statistically I've got it completely backwards. Always possible)
― Evan, Monday, 11 July 2016 18:54 (seven years ago) link
yeah i'm not doubting what you say also happens but inflated price are so nuts now on some stuff it's hard to guage what anything is "worth" anymore
it's just really hard for me to go over 30/40 bucks and that better be something that's in really nice shape that's hard to find and i really love the music
― Steve Gunn Mann-Dude (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Monday, 11 July 2016 19:23 (seven years ago) link
recently i sold a bootleg record for way too much on eBay (even though i clearly/prominently described it as an unofficial release), and i felt a little bit guilty. but i guess if somebody wants to give me money i'm gonna take it.
― dc, Monday, 11 July 2016 19:39 (seven years ago) link
Things are only worth what people are willing to pay. That's why I sort by sold and hope there's enough relatively recent data to get a reliable sense of demand.
― Evan, Monday, 11 July 2016 19:50 (seven years ago) link
popsike sez this may not be overpriced, but still o_O
― no lime tangier, Wednesday, 17 August 2016 06:41 (seven years ago) link
golden era original uk pressings of unaccompanied violin stuff always goes for heaps of money e.g. these johanna martzy records from the 50s:
http://www.popsike.com/php/quicksearch.php?pagenum=1&searchtext=johanna+martzy&incldescr=&sortord=dprice&thumbs=&currsel=&endfrom=&endthru=&ipp=&sdc=
or this other leonid kogan (you can pick up the CFP reissue of this for 50p btw, it sounds great):
http://www.popsike.com/php/quicksearch.php?pagenum=1&searchtext=sax+2386&incldescr=&sortord=dprice&thumbs=&currsel=&endfrom=&endthru=&ipp=&sdc=
― Rae Kwoniff (NickB), Wednesday, 17 August 2016 13:52 (seven years ago) link
yikes at those prices! have never looked into the high end classical market... is that down to rarity value or are those pressings really that much better?
― no lime tangier, Thursday, 18 August 2016 05:23 (seven years ago) link
Those really fringe classical collectors are pretty sycophantic.
― Austin, Thursday, 18 August 2016 05:26 (seven years ago) link
7000 euros for a Peruvian pressing of "The Wall" anyone? https://www.discogs.com/sell/item/519903144
I came across it as this one in my wants list is also crazily priced - https://www.discogs.com/sell/release/2574353?ev=rb
― stirmonster, Tuesday, 24 October 2017 22:36 (six years ago) link
oops. sorry, meant to post this on discogs thread. apologies!
― stirmonster, Tuesday, 24 October 2017 22:43 (six years ago) link
how about $20k for an 'orange' white album that was clearly a dye or marker job?
https://www.ebay.com/itm/Beatles-White-Album-ORANGE-COVER-USA-APPLE-Embossed-Numbered-INSANELY-UBER-RARE/182841679894?_trkparms=aid%3D111001%26algo%3DREC.SEED%26ao%3D1%26asc%3D41375%26meid%3D33c2829ff30641b1ad4dd163a30b3755%26pid%3D100033%26rk%3D1%26rkt%3D4%26sd%3D182841679894&_trksid=p2045573.c100033.m2042
― akm, Tuesday, 24 October 2017 23:22 (six years ago) link
Lol, I just won a record from that guy yesterday.
― Ⓓⓡ. (Johnny Fever), Tuesday, 24 October 2017 23:40 (six years ago) link
Same album was on a diff thread on here today
― Le Bateau Ivre, Tuesday, 24 October 2017 23:43 (six years ago) link
Why would anyone go through the process of printing a boot cover, pay the extra expense to emboss the cover, only to put legit records inside — doesn’t make sense.
lol this guy cannot be serious
The records themselves are fairly marginal. Of course that really doesn’t matter, since you can easily replace them.
the records are marked VG-. $10 says this is a beat up copy of the White Album spray painted orange
― AdamVania (Adam Bruneau), Wednesday, 25 October 2017 00:04 (six years ago) link
Just going on all information from anywhere on the internet that I can see, plus the information from my Beatles experts, it seems pretty likely that this will be your only chance to own this, as it’s the only copy anyone has ever heard of.
― niels, Friday, 27 October 2017 06:18 (six years ago) link
Only the front, of a sleeve that is made from one piece of card?
Its not coloured by marker pens, or someone's paint brush.
Its a spray paint job, then.
― Mark G, Friday, 27 October 2017 06:47 (six years ago) link
look at the clues guys. orange is a pun on apple; orinj is also an anagram of ringo. it's likely that this unique copy was pressed especially for him and if you can buy it for less than $3m, it's a steal
― plp will eat itself (NickB), Friday, 27 October 2017 08:50 (six years ago) link
if that sells I can guarantee I'll be painting all my copies of the white album and selling them for a mere $10k a piece
― akm, Saturday, 28 October 2017 20:48 (six years ago) link
https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/First-Day-of-Issue-the-Beatles-White-Album-CD-Carson-City-Nevada-August-25-1987/302626135744?hash=item4675ec5ec0:g:c8EAAOSwFdtXzDfN
― MaresNest, Thursday, 22 February 2018 16:03 (six years ago) link
longboxes have really kicked up in value
― maura, Thursday, 22 February 2018 16:21 (six years ago) link
https://www.ebay.com/i/253522160452
I mean, a guy from Manowar was in this band (not among the signers, btw), but cmon
― Paul Ponzi, Thursday, 5 April 2018 12:34 (five years ago) link
https://www.ebay.com/itm/The-Complete-Utter-Dukes-of-Stratosphear-by-XTC-Box-Set-2010-Ape-NEW/263819368442
― MaresNest, Tuesday, 31 July 2018 13:48 (five years ago) link
It's been in my "Want" page for aeons, it just never comes up for sale.
I did get the "Fuzzy Warbles" box back whenever, for a daft price (literally had to re-contact the seller to ask "This is all the CDs? Not an empty box or "contains 2" type thing?" but it was.)
But seeing as how I have all the music from the box (actually, both orig albums and the new CD sets), it dunt matter.
― Mark G, Tuesday, 31 July 2018 14:59 (five years ago) link
4k for a knackered Jethro Tull promo poster.
https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Jethro-Tull-Poster-A-Passion-Play-Dancer-Vintage/153306672836?hash=item23b1ca2ec4:g:cGsAAOSw3-9cFxMi:rk:1:pf:0
― MaresNest, Saturday, 12 January 2019 19:19 (five years ago) link
Very Rare Misprint LP Two Side 3's - Communicate * [LP] by Sasha + John DigweedPre-Owned
$20,000.00 or Best Offer+$44.19 shipping
WILL REFUND 125% if returned with proof that item is not authentic...(VERY RARE; POSSIBLY ONE OF A KIND) Great investment opportunity This is hands down, one of my most prized possessions and may very well be priceless. If you were in the House/Trance scene back in the day, then you'd remember how hot and heavy the dance floor would get whenever the DJ dropped Trisco. This LP has two side 3's instead of the side 3 and side 4 that should be there. I didn't list this as a new item only because I have removed the record from it's sleeve, but it has never been played. The sleeve has very little wear due to sitting on the shelf but is in extremely good condition. Because I have never played the album, I cannot say wether or not the label is a misprint or if it's the label and the actual record as well.
Cheers and happy bidding!
A must have for any record collection. Album FeaturesArtist:Sasha + John DigweedFormat:VinylRelease Year:2001Record Label:Kinetic (USA)Genre:Electronic, TranceNumber Of Vinyl:Two 12” Records2nd Record is a Misprint with Two Side 3’s
― omar little, Tuesday, 5 March 2019 07:29 (five years ago) link
haha!
― kolarov spring (NickB), Tuesday, 5 March 2019 07:37 (five years ago) link