[78-L] Does anybody actually bid on Hillbilly or CW 78's on eBay?

[David Lennick]

But a "buy it now" price disappears as soon as you bid the minimum. If the 
seller has also set an outrageous reserve price, that's something else. (My 
Jimmy Durante transcription just got a bid, so unless action heats up somewhere 
I won't see the "buy it now" price, which WAS outrageous but ya gotta try once 
in a while.)

dl

On 1/24/2012 3:47 PM, Gregg Kimball wrote:
>
> I think that people are still collecting old time and country. A high
> percentage of hillbilly records on ebay are not all that valuable and are
> much more cheaply junked--at least they are here in Virginia. I know several
> pickers who will alert me to stashes of 78s that can be had cheaply and I've
> done a bit of buying and trading with with other collectors. As has been
> noted, when you add shipping to Ebay purchases the prices can get
> prohibitive.  I bid occasionally on rarer records in VG or better condition
> that I have a high interest in and that have reasonable starting bids.
> That's primarily how I use ebay, and I don't use it that often.
>
> I also don't understand some of the very high Buy It Now prices on ebay.
> There are often interesting records there, but the ridiculous prices keep
> them on Ebay perpetually.
>
> Gregg
>
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Dennis Flannigan"<dennis.flannigan at gmail.com>
> To:<78-l at klickitat.78online.com>
> Sent: Tuesday, January 24, 2012 2:03 PM
> Subject: [78-L] Does anybody actually bid on Hillbilly or CW 78's on eBay?
>
>
>> Thinking of selling on eBay, which each year I consider, and then don't do
>> it. However . . .
>>
>> Today I checked blues and country 78s on eBay. It's been a while. So,
>> found
>> quite a few blues 78s for auction, and five percent or so with bids. Four
>> thousand plus records identified as blues were posted. Did not check them
>> all. Then checked hillbilly, as well as CW seventy-eight listings (CW
>> 78rpm, and Hillbilly 78rpm). More listed as hillbilly. Found only one with
>> a bid offer ($5.00), checked more than 400 listings. Most had no bid, only
>> Buy Now pricing. Still, only a Red Kirk record had any bid. Records ranged
>> from prewar Columbia items, to later bands and artists.
>>
>> Has bidding on eBay expired as a serious option for collectors? Are there
>> no country or hillbilly collectors in real life? Seems eBay would offer a
>> hint of whether there is any interest. And it made no difference whether
>> the record was posted at two dollar minimum bid, or $24.99 (popular
>> number), there was only one bid. Ninety-five percent required Buy Now
>> purchase, and prices were unlikely to attract buyers.
>>
>> Are there country collectors left to purchase records?
>>
>> Dennis
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