[78-L] eBay rant

[Cary Ginell]

If you stick with a few quality dealers, like Tom Kelly Archives and assorted others, you can separate the wheat from the chaff. Just don't dive into the polluted ocean for the ballast. Filter out all the sludge and dirty water (to quote The New Yorker: "Block that Metaphor!")
 
Cary Ginell
 

> Date: Fri, 30 Mar 2012 07:19:57 -1000
> From: malcolm at 78data.com
> To: 78-l at klickitat.78online.com
> Subject: [78-L] eBay rant
> 
> Ahem (he says, mounting his soapbox)...
> I still troll the daily 78 offerings on eBay every morning over my 
> morning coffee and it seems the idiots have fully taken over. I've never 
> seen so much ballast in one place. It looks like any sellers with decent 
> and/or interesting material have fled to other venues, and the prices 
> for the crap that's there are stunning. And I'm just taking about the 
> auctions; I won't even go into the "Buy It Now" stuff.
> How about 3 Fritz Kreisler 78s starting at almost $75? Or the relatively 
> common - and slightly grayed - "Mean Old Frisco" by Arthur Crudup on 
> Bluebird with a starting bid of a mere $50? It has become rare to see 50 
> cent or $1.00 records going for less than $10. How about Dean Martin's 
> supposed first record on Diamond for a mere $119? And the floods of 
> classical, Indian (today there were around 1000 of these starting at $10 
> each!), and overpriced Philippine reissues?
> Not only that but some sellers have been double listing material so, 
> just in case you may have missed their records on Monday, they'll show 
> up again on Thursday or a week later.
> Empty sleeves for $12 each and up anyone?
> What a bunch of crap. Well at least it's all in one place should one 
> need to find some and have money to blow. Used to be eBay was fun. Now 
> it's merely tedium.
> Bah!
> End of rant.
> Malcolm
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