[78-L] Selling non-78 items...?!

[David Lennick]

David Canfield's record lists still provide a guide to prices and desirability 
of classical LPs. The audiophile market is still out there..for that matter, 
those ten thousand dollar turntables are still being sold.

dl

Royal Pemberton wrote:
> I'd bought that Mercury LP because I knew it was an excellent deal on
> an LP that was a high-water mark of achievement in the type or
> recording it was, and because of it being an original pressing in
> sterling condition.  I knew if there was ever a record that could show
> me what the ballyhoo about those LPs was about, that one would show
> me.
> 
> On 6/16/09, Steven C. Barr <stevenc at interlinks.net> wrote:
>> ----- Original Message -----
>> From: "Royal Pemberton" <ampex354 at gmail.com>
>>> I lucked out in late 1991 and found a mint FR-1 pressing of Mercury
>>> Living Presence SR 90169 (Marcel Dupré Organ Recital) at a Goodwill in
>>> Longview, Texas for all of $1!  The last I knew it was about a $200
>>> LP.
>>>
>> The LEAST of my concerns is what any...or ALL...of my 78's are worth
>> individually or collectively! As far as 45's and LP's...well, my drunk
>> brother
>> destroyed my 45's about 40 years ago (I was in Germany with the USAF
>> then!)...and my large collection of LP's, including some great blues albums,
>> were sold off for about a hundred bucks back in 1997...I was lying in
>> hospital
>> at the time, and some so-called friends decided to clean out my house and
>> sell everything they could (I discovered this when I got a phone call from
>> the
>> late Jeff Healey, asking me if I knew that my 78's were being made
>> available...!)
>> I VERY quickly terminated the Power Of Attorney I had signed (BIG error
>> on my part!!) and made it clear that my 78's WERE NOT FOR SALE!!
>>
>> However, these fundamental orifices had already sold whole bunches of
>> my belongings...mostly for maybe 1% of what it was actually worth! Of
>> course, they had NO idea of how/where to sell most of my "collections"...
>> and a bunch of chisler...er, dealers..."saw 'em coming" and paid rock
>> bottom prices for some fairly valuable items...?!
>>
>> ...stevenc