[78-L] eBay rant [fwd]

[Mike Harkin]

The inmates have ALWAYS run the asylum or prison.  The keepers try to
change the situation when things get out of hand, but with zero long-term
success.

Mike in Plovdiv

Brace yourselves -- Friday the 13th comes on Friday next month....

--- On Fri, 3/30/12, bruce78rpm at comcast.net <bruce78rpm at comcast.net> wrote:

> From: bruce78rpm at comcast.net <bruce78rpm at comcast.net>
> Subject: Re: [78-L] eBay rant
> To: "78-L Mail List" <78-l at klickitat.78online.com>
> Date: Friday, March 30, 2012, 6:35 PM
> It is a self-perpetuating prophecy.
> One buffoon sets a ridiculous minimum bid for a Henry Burr
> Pathe Record, and then additional sellers who have know idea
> what this junk is worth, will follow suit with the same
> $15.00 minimum bid or buy it now price. I used to review the
> Pathe records, on ebay because I have a Pathe machine, and
> used to occasionally find a good artist and selection that I
> could place a fair bid on. Not any more, the inmates are now
> running the asylum, and everything from the boring to the
> interesting are all set at outlandishly high starting or buy
> it now prices. It is now a haven for total fools, selling to
> even bigger fools, if and when the crap ever sells, which is
> very very seldom. Senseless, totally senseless. 
> 
> Bruce 
> 
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Malcolm - Venerable Music" < malcolm @
> venerablemusic .com> 
> To: "78-L Mail List" <78-l@ klickitat .78online.com> 
> Sent: Friday, March 30, 2012 1:58:40 PM 
> Subject: Re: [78-L] eBay rant 
> 
> Hey Cary - Unfortunately this does not include the Buy It
> Now items! I never 
> look at those as it's almost never worth the time spent. The
> auction only 
> items are out of control! 
> The problem is that I also collect ethnic records so there
> is no way to 
> properly filter out the 1000 listed Bollywood records and
> look at the rest 
> of the things I might be interested in. The same goes with
> jazz especially 
> as most can not distinguish big band and swing from actual
> jazz records. 
> It's not as much that I have to look at stuff that I'm not
> interested in - I 
> don't mind that at all. It's that I have to look at them
> over and over again 
> every week! It was not as much of a problem with 6000
> listings, but 14,000 
> is a mess. 
> And don't get me started on those free listing days! That is
> just an excuse 
> to flood the system with every item that didn't sell the
> first time because 
> no one was interested or it was priced too high. I actually
> avoid looking at 
> all on the morning after! 
> Malcolm 
> 
> Venerable Music - http :// www . venerablemusic .com 
> Venerable Radio - http :// www . venerableradio .com 
> 78rpm Record Auctions - http :// www . vmauctions .com 
> 
> 
> -----Original Message----- 
> From: Cary Ginell 
> Sent: Friday, March 30, 2012 1:43 PM 
> To: 78-l@ klickitat .78online.com 
> Subject: Re: [78-L] eBay rant 
> 
> 
> I would say that a good percentage of the garbage is all Buy
> It Now stuff 
> that just lays there and gathers moss. You can filter all of
> this out by 
> just checking Auction Only when you search, and then you can
> also search by 
> genre to eliminate all the Bollywood 78s. I almost never
> just browse through 
> all the 78 listings anymore. 
> 
> Cary Ginell 
> 
> 
> > From: malcolm @ venerablemusic .com 
> > To: 78-l@ klickitat .78online.com 
> > Date: Fri, 30 Mar 2012 13:35:47 -0400 
> > Subject: Re: [78-L] eBay rant 
> > 
> > Mal - I'm 100% with you and have gotten to the point
> where I just can't 
> > look 
> > at everything & I've been just giving up a lot. 
> > There used to routinely be about 6000 auction listings
> in a given week and 
> > suddenly it's double that (and yes, I know the Indian
> listings you're 
> > speaking of - ha! Had to wade through those twice and
> I'm sure will have 
> > to 
> > again soon.)! 
> > Week in and week out the same crap over and over again.
> If Ebay would just 
> > institute a very simple database filter that would
> allow you to exclude 
> > any 
> > item that has been relisted it would solve much of this
> browsing 
> > frustration. 
> > Also, if they would stop charging such outrageous fees
> to have a store 
> > front, more of these items could be moved to Buy It Now
> to sit until that 
> > right person comes along. 
> > I quit as a seller quite awhile back & am becoming
> frustrated with buying 
> > there as well. Sometime you get deals, but damn it's a
> lot of work and 
> > time 
> > spent for those! My obsessive nature makes it hard to
> quit looking, but 
> > ebay 
> > could certainly do some things to make their browsing
> easier. When was the 
> > last time ebay actually instituted a change that
> actually made things 
> > better?? The 50 free auction listings per month maybe?
> But other than 
> > that - 
> > ha! 
> > The other Malcolm 
> > 
> > Venerable Music - http :// www . venerablemusic .com 
> > Venerable Radio - http :// www . venerableradio .com 
> > 78rpm Record Auctions - http :// www . vmauctions .com
> 
> > 
> > 
> > -----Original Message----- 
> > From: Malcolm Rockwell 
> > Sent: Friday, March 30, 2012 1:19 PM 
> > To: 78-L Mail List 
> > 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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