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25th Mar 2020, 4:47 PM
	xiphophilos Member since Dec 2013 3333 Points Moderator	Ridiculous is the right word. At least for 78s, it would be far less misleading to display the auction price for VG and then to also mark it _prominently_ as an "Auction Price" rather than "Value". Almost all of the records that I own myself and that I see here marked as $20-40 or even in the $100s, I bought within the last 7 years at garage sales and on estate sales for $.50, sometimes for less. Had they been offered to me for even $5, I would not have taken them because I know it's only a matter of time before I find them somewhere else for far less. After all, the kind of music I like was _very popular_ back in the day, and most auction sites wouldn't even accept these records because they are still so common. Fortunately, there haven't been too many occasions where I simply had to walk away because people had looked at similarly inflated Ebay prices and thought they owned incredible treasures (like the South Pacific album!). I also admit that I don't feel any need to be a completist collector. To be fair, I am also aware that I would nowadays be much more likely to see many of the kind of records Mike Gann collects on an auction site than at a garage sale. Edited by xiphophilos on 26th Mar 2020, 6:43 AM

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