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2nd Jan 2020, 4:30 PM
	fantasista Member since Feb 2015 435 Points	xiphophilos wrote: I'd love to know that too. ;-) Myself, I went to a so-called estate sale today. Turns out they were Ebayers who tried to sell their junk out of a barn in the middle of nowhere. When I actually discovered a box of 78s, covered in mouse droppings, they wanted $5 a disc for their treasures and told me that these went for $15-25 on Ebay. Yes, we are talking about Guy Lombardo, Perry Como, and Fred Waring on post ww2-Deccas here, worth at most 50 cents if they find a buyer at all! (Did I mention the mouse droppings?) Truly a bunch of nitwits, I mean dyed-in-the-wool Ebayers. Thought I had wasted a lot of time driving out there, but then I found some music I do like listening to at a small antique store in a tiny village nearby: These cost $2 a pop, by the way. Far more than I usually need to invest, but fine for an antique store. Both are near-mint copies too. I know this is an old post, but I've been meeting people infected with this 'eBay mentality' with increasing frequency. Nothing like seeing the same Herb Alpert and Lawrence Welk LPs a thousand thrift stores across the country can't move for love or money listed at $5-10 each at flea markets and antique stores, as if that was a bargain. People find out that some records are worth a lot of money and that vinyl is 'in' again and see $$ signs in front of their eyes. What bothers me about it is that some inexperienced people who are just getting into this hobby (and/or hipster yuppies with more money than sense) will pay those inflated prices, not knowing what a fair price for those records actually is. Edited by fantasista on 2nd Jan 2020, 5:27 PM