[78-L] Kurt Nauck's Auctions.

[Michael Biel]

On 5/7/2011 6:01 AM, Spats wrote:
> Hi!
>
> There seems to be some anti-Nauck feeling on this list from at least
> one contributor,

As others mentioned, I also do not recall anything negative about Kurt 
in a long time.  A couple of days ago in the discussion of the E-bay 
seller someone reported that the seller had five negatives and that two 
of them were FROM Kurt.  Is this what you might have seen?

>   so let me add this.
> Kurt Nauck and I disagree over quite a few basic things in life.
> His politics are pretty right-wing and he's VERY Christian,
> whereas I'm a Socialist and a Jewish-born Atheist...
> So, were he standing for political office, I probably wouldn't vote for him...
>

Same with me, but Kurt and I have been joking about our mutually 
exclusive political, social, and religious attitudes for years.  Long 
ago we agreed to disagree, and still occasionally have fun hurling 
epithets at each other.  He is very thoughtful in his opinions, and a 
couple of times has even said to me that we may agree on more things 
than I realize.  I did have an eerie feeling this week looking at the 
pictures of the Bin Laden Compound.  It reminded me so much of the Nauck 
Compound at Fort Nauck.  (Hmmm, maybe if we get a couple of helicopters 
we could make off with a lot of records!)


> HOWEVER, his auction is THE fairest out there.

Mirror, mirror on the wall
Who's the fairest of them all out there?

> With everyone else (apart from eBay, I suppose) what you bid is what
> you pay so that, unlike a 'live' auction, it is perfectly possible
> for you to pay $20 for a record when the next highest bid is $5.
>
> Not so with Kurt. You only ever pay 10% more than the next highest bid.
>

Helps me out quite a bit sometimes.  The only problem is if someone else 
also overbids!

> OK. I don't always agree with the high minimum price he has assigned
> to certain lots, but if that's the case, I just don't bid for that
> lot. If others are daft enough to do so, that's their choice! ;-)
>
>

I wish the shellac 16-inchers were not $25 minimum this time.
> As for his grading, my only disagreement is that he often grades
> something as only so-so and the record turns up in almost mint
> condition. The look of the grooves is the result of what early
> (pre-1910) records ALL looked like, but he downgrades the record
> anyhow.
>

He also cleans the records nicely.  I get the feeling he grades them 
before cleaning -- maybe he only cleans the ones he sells.

> Every now and then, it's almost always a later 78, when the records
> had got quite thin, the odd disc arrives broken.

So you bid on odd discs also!  :-)

>   I only have to
> report this to Kurt and he takes the amount off my next bill, no
> questions asked.  I have no complaints whatsoever!  Earl Okin.

Nothing broken from him yet, knock wood.

Mike Biel  mbiel at mbiel.com