HEY! That was MY record! LOL! You are right, I had dealers renting space from me who might as well just have burned the money for the lack of sales they had and for their apathy. John
bruce78rpm <[email protected]> wrote: I am convinced that there are some folks who display items at antique malls or shows that really do not care whether they ever ever sell anything at all, but rather are just content to display their ridiculously priced so-called treasures for all to gaze at in wondrous amazment, including their rare and one of a kind $25.00 78rpm recording of "Smiles" by Campbell & Burr on the Columbia Label. ----- Original Message ----- From: "john robles" To: "Antique Phonograph List" Sent: Thursday, March 11, 2004 5:59 PM Subject: Re: [Phono-L] Phono buying in 1975... > They didn't graduate from the research and experience school! As a former antique dealer myself, who owned a 2,000 s.f. antique mall, I must relate the other side of the issue, and that is when people come in wanting to sell something of little value but think it is a valuable treasure because it was their grandmother's. I have been asked to pay ridiculous prices for common goods. Usually the would-be seller has never seen another example of the item in question, so it must be a rare find and I am just trying to 'rip them off'. > John Robles > > "Loran T. Hughes" wrote: > On Thu, 2004-03-11 at 14:37, Phil O'Keefe wrote: > > Yeah, a lot of antique dealers are in the wrong line of business. > > > Amen! What gets me is seeing a piece set in an antique shop for YEARS, > never getting marked down, never moving. Makes you wonder what school of > business they didn't graduate from. > > Loran > > > _______________________________________________ > Phono-l mailing list > [email protected] > http://t2.cwihosting.com/mailman/listinfo/phono-l_oldcrank.com > _______________________________________________ > Phono-l mailing list > [email protected] > http://t2.cwihosting.com/mailman/listinfo/phono-l_oldcrank.com _______________________________________________ Phono-l mailing list [email protected] http://t2.cwihosting.com/mailman/listinfo/phono-l_oldcrank.com From Gpaul2000 Thu Mar 11 18:48:22 2004 From: Gpaul2000 ([email protected]) Date: Sun Dec 24 13:10:36 2006 Subject: [Phono-L] Phono buying in 1975... Message-ID: <[email protected]> Anyone can become an antique dealer, and some clearly cannot find anything else to do. In 1979, I walked into a shop and found an Edison "Standard" Model B with a 2&4 minute attachment. No horn, no lid, but it worked. The price was $110. I asked the dealer about it (planning to get the price lowered a bit), and she said that before she could sell it, she'd have to make a phone call. I stood there dazed as she asked some man on the other end of the phone line if he was still interested in the Edison. She dropped the phone from her ear and stated, "He's willing to pay $120. Do you want to outbid him?" I was dumbstruck. "Isn't this a pricetag on the machine?" I asked. She mumbled something about this man being a friend of hers. "Fine, I'll give you $130." The woman reported this to her "friend," paused, and told me, "He'll go $135, but no higher." I was barely holding on to my temper by now, and said something like, "Does this mean that I can REALLY buy it for $140?" She said "Yes," so I did. After I got home, it occurred to me that the woman might have been talking to a dial tone! I've never had anyone else pull a stunt like that. George Paul From pokeefe571 Thu Mar 11 19:03:50 2004 From: pokeefe571 (Phil O'Keefe) Date: Sun Dec 24 13:10:36 2006 Subject: [Phono-L] Phono buying in 1975... In-Reply-To: <[email protected]> Message-ID: <bc7668e7.462e%[email protected]> George, that's really an odd story. The first thought that would of come into my head when she called her "friend" was that it was a scam. Back then, $140 was probably a little high, considering that the machine was missing its lid and it had no horn. -Phil http://www.engineeringexpert.net/edphono.htm On 3/11/04 6:48 PM, "[email protected]" <[email protected]> wrote: > Anyone can become an antique dealer, and some clearly cannot find anything > else to do. In 1979, I walked into a shop and found an Edison "Standard" > Model > B with a 2&4 minute attachment. No horn, no lid, but it worked. The price > was $110. I asked the dealer about it (planning to get the price lowered a > bit), and she said that before she could sell it, she'd have to make a phone > call. > I stood there dazed as she asked some man on the other end of the phone line > if he was still interested in the Edison. She dropped the phone from her ear > and stated, "He's willing to pay $120. Do you want to outbid him?" I was > dumbstruck. "Isn't this a pricetag on the machine?" I asked. She mumbled > something about this man being a friend of hers. "Fine, I'll give you $130." > The > woman reported this to her "friend," paused, and told me, "He'll go $135, but > no higher." I was barely holding on to my temper by now, and said something > like, "Does this mean that I can REALLY buy it for $140?" She said "Yes," so > I > did. After I got home, it occurred to me that the woman might have been > talking to a dial tone! I've never had anyone else pull a stunt like that. > > George Paul
