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

[Cary Ginell]

You pay extra for Buy It Now. I never found this worth doing, unless I'm too impatient to wait the 7-day gestation period. Instead I prefer a higher reserve. Either way inhibits the frenzied two-way bidding war that sellers want. 

Cary 

On Jan 24, 2012, at 12:53 PM, "David Lennick" <dlennick at sympatico.ca> wrote:

> 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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