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

[Taylor Bowie]

Dad-blame it,  Joe....you just blew my cover!!!

T


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> 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>
>> To: "78-L Mail List" <78-l at klickitat.78online.com>
>> Sent: Saturday, March 27, 2010 7:06 AM
>> Subject: Re: [78-L] More from the Eb*y Stupid File....
>>
>>
>>> 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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