[78-L] Mysterioso world of eBay

[Taylor Bowie]

The thing about eBay is that you can never be sure who is going to be 
"dropping by" on any given day or week.  Very few people look at it every 
day,  and people's interests and finances vary from week to week as well.

Cary's story of the two copies of the Allen record is not unusual.  Another 
thing which often happens:  Something gets listed for $19.95 and gets no 
bids.  Two weeks later,  the seller relists it at $9.95 and it sells for 
fifty  bucks.

I bet if Cary had listed  both the Allens at a $74.95 "Buy It Now" they 
would have sold.  But by the same token...he might have listed a copy two 
weeks later or two weeks earlier and seen it sell for $125...or back to 
$24.95.

Taylor




----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Cary Ginell" <soundthink at live.com>
To: <78-l at klickitat.78online.com>
Sent: Monday, March 15, 2010 10:48 AM
Subject: [78-L] E-Bay prices (was Chet Baker)



eBay is all over the place. You can't count on anything selling for anywhere 
near the same amount on one day or the next. I listed two copies of 
"Pleasing Paul" by Henry Allen on scroll Victor in the V-38000 series. Both 
were in about E to E+ condition. The first copy sold for $24.99 (my minimum 
bid). The second copy, listed a few weeks later, had 6 bids and went for 
$94.45. Go figure.



Cary Ginell

> To: 78-l at klickitat.78online.com
> From: dialjazz at verizon.net
> Date: Mon, 15 Mar 2010 12:16:16 -0400
> Subject: [78-L] Chet Baker Photo on E-Bay
>
>
> My jaw dropped this morning when I checked the winning bid in a John
> Tefteller auction for an autographed publicity photo of a young Chet
> Baker: $1030! When last I looked, the high bid was $440. An E+ copy of
> OKeh 8772 J. C. Higginbotham and His Six Hicks: Give Me Your Telephone
> Number/Higginbotham Blues garnered 18 bids and sold for $532! These two
> original masters were reissued on the HRS label in December 1938 (No.
> 14) and command the highest price of any HRS reissue! A laminated
> pressing, it is like having the original. At a record meet last
> January, a friend bought an E+ copy for $2.00. Without explaining why,
> I told him he was a very lucky man! An E+ copy of Vocalion 2539 with
> Joseph Robechaux and His New Orleans Rhythm Boys doing St. Louis
> Blues/King Kong Stomp garnered 14 bids and went for $293.65. If both of
> these records were rare 1950s R&B 45s, imagine what they might sell
> for! An N copy of Aladdin 128 Lester Young: Lover Come Back to
> Me/Jammin’ with Lester went for a surprising $46.50. I have a copy of
> the Philo issue and this is the last catalog number issued under the
> Philo imprint before the imprint became Aladdin. Interestingly, an E
> copy of Decca 7235 The Original St. Louis Crackerjacks doing Good Old
> Bosom Bread/Swing Jackson did not sell. I have a copy and these are
> decent sides.
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