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

[David Lennick]

I may be on a different system in Canada..I get 50 free listings every month 
with no "buy it now" surcharge, and at least once a month I've had a "list up 
to 50,000 items free" invitation since I hit some magic plateau.

dl

On 1/24/2012 4:23 PM, Cary Ginell wrote:
> 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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