[78-L] E-Bay prices (was Chet Baker)

[David Lennick]

Speaking of eBay..
http://www.businessinsider.com/buy-this-small-michigan-tv-station-on-ebay-2010-3#

Buy it now for $700k. I don't see anything about the sale including a license 
though.

dl

Cary Ginell wrote:
> 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.
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> Cary Ginell
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>> 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
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>> 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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