[78-L] 78 rpm Price Hike

[Erwin Kluwer]

"Wer zuletzt lacht, lacht am besten"

I am Dutch but I got you...



On Thu, Oct 23, 2014 at 11:32 AM, Mike Harkin <xxm.harkin at yahoo.com.invalid>
wrote:

>
> Wer zuletzt lacht, lacht am besten.
> Mike in Plovdiv
>
>
>      On Thursday, October 23, 2014 11:44 AM, Erwin Kluwer
> <ekluwer at gmail.com.invalid> wrote:
>
>
>
> "I laughed and said yes, there are some that are but 99.99% of them aren't"
>
> That's also what I said when I stumbled upon a guy with a box with some
> Caruso Zonophones, the Debussy G&T with Mary Garden, etc...
>
> Then I laughed some more when I got home with my goodies... :)
>
>
> On Tue, Oct 21, 2014 at 3:12 PM, Glenn Longwell <glongwell at snet.net.invalid
> >
> wrote:
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> >
> > I think it's probably the increasing costs of ebay and paypal making it
> > necessary for sellers to start at a higher price to make any money.  But
> > obviously many crazed sellers have any possible 78 starting at the same
> > high price.  Surprisingly, some of them will sell a record for $20 when
> > there are numerous examples of people buying the same record for $2-5.
> So
> > buyers fuel this frenzy too.  I do believe it's possible some are trying
> > to take advantage of the publicity of the book and has probably brought
> new
> > players into the game.  I've had a number of people ask me about it,
> people
> > that are not at all into records, since they heard about it on NPR.  I
> was
> > at an estate sale recently and as I was standing there with some 78s in
> my
> > hand someone commented how they heard 78s are REAL valuable.
>
>
>
>
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> > I laughed and said yes, there are some that are but 99.99% of them aren't
> >
> > Glenn
> >
> >
> > www.majesticrecord.com
> >
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> >  From: maceo <maceo at nugrape.net.invalid>
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> > Sent: Monday, October 20, 2014 4:25 PM
> > Subject: Re: [78-L] 78 rpm Price Hike
> >
> >
> >
> > The baseline has changed.
> >
> > I have noticed an increase in the shellac available online of interest
> > to me even from 12 months ago, saying that there is an increase in the
> > number of bidders.
> >
> > The prices have definitely increased on certain material, some are not
> > feasible for the grading, so whether it persists is debatable.
> >
> > Whether this is due to a narrow concept book release is difficult to
> > ascertain?
> >
> > Gotta feed the shellac habit somehow :-)
> >
> > Gary
> > >
> > > I have not noticed a line of customers outside my door holding wads of
> > $100 bills wanting to buy records.
> > >
> > > If anyone finds demand outstripping supply for 78s in general, I would
> > be happy to oblige.  Send them on to me./steve
> > >
> > > uncledavelewis at hotmail.com wrote:
> > >
> > > Am I alone, or has anyone noticed a shift upward in baseline prices for
> > 78s since the publication of "Do Not Sell at Any Price"? Or was I asleep
> > and they went up more gradually? Seems to me it's an average of about 15
> to
> > 20 per cent.Uncle Dave Lewisuncledavelewis at hotmail.com
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