[78-L] More from the Eb*y Stupid File....

[neechevoneeznayou at gmail.com]

Maybe someone is secretly doing a psychological study of record 
collectors...

joe salerno


Taylor Bowie wrote:
> I would guess that the typical  motivation for listing these crazy high 
> prices has more to do with someone needing attention than it does to any 
> actual expectation of selling the things.    For the price of a few bucks, 
> they can imagine for a moment that they are a "big player" of some sort.
> 
> They might even thrive on the ridicule they receive from those who actually 
> know about the material in question.  For some,  any attention is 
> appreciated,  even negative.
> 
> 
> Taylor
> 
> 
> 
> 
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "agp" <agp2176 at verizon.net>
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> Sent: Saturday, March 27, 2010 7:06 AM
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> 
>> I wonder what this guy's reasoning is for the pricing. Is it a ruse
>> that by doing a ridonkulous set price coupled with an 'or best offer'
>> he may force those 'best offers' to be high. Some nincompoop may come
>> along and say 'It must be rare cause its 50,000 kersplatniks less
>> than a million, so maybe I better make a high offer on it'. I dunno.
>> Even as such, 100,000 and a bit per disk for this is weird.
>>
>> Correct me if I'm wrong, but the highest price paid for any record
>> has been in the 5 digits, and if in the 6 digits only on the bottom
>> floors of that building. Certainly on eBay, I can't recall any single
>> record going in that neighbourhood.
>>
>> I can't help thinking back to a few years ago, when a yokel tried to
>> dump his over 3 million records and cds on eBay -- and thought he was
>> gonna get $28.5 million for it
>>
>> http://news.google.com/archivesearch?num=10&as_price=p0&scoring=a&hl=en&ned=us&q=%22paul+mawhinney%22&spell=1
>>
>> I wonder what ever became of this
>>
>> T
>>
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