He may just be crazy not know what these things are worth.. Most of his sales were $25 dollar Champion/Gennett Country and Western records and if you are looking for a particular title or record 25 bucks is not that much to pop for. How he came up with 12,500 for that Victor Sousa record I just can't imagine…
On May 16, 2011, at 11:27 PM, Don Dellmann wrote: > > ----- Original Message ----- From: "Vinyl Visions" <vinyl.visi...@live.com> > To: <phono-l@oldcrank.org> > Sent: Monday, May 16, 2011 10:13 PM > Subject: Re: [Phono-L] You gotta love this... "Museum Quality Black Patti > Record" > > >> >> This guy is not only a joke, but something very strange is going on with his >> eBay account. I checked his feedback - back to January of this year and >> found a very peculiar situation. One "buyer" named "lgirmscher" has >> supposedly bought and left positive feedback for 79 records since January 13 >> and paid anywhere from $24.99 - $83.52 each. The peculiar part of this is >> that lgirmscher had a rating of (209) purchases on Jan. 13 and on May 13 >> after buying at least 79 items, his rating is still (209)... what's up with >> that? There are other multiple purchasers, but this one stands out as odd. I >> can't imagine buying any records at his prices, but someone bought one for >> $750 - left negative feedback, claiming the record was a repro and eBay >> backed this seller. >> > > The feedback number isn't strange if he did indeed buy only from this > gentleman. You can but 5000 items, if they're all from the same buyer/seller > it counts your feedback score as "one". > > However, not buying or selling anything to or from anyone else in that time > period IS very very suspicious. > > I would also think that if someone is going to try and move an item for four > or five figures they could have some better pictures, at least a description > of the particular item, and some sort of grading. > > I mean even "I" could scan some photos of labels out of a book and go on eBay > claiming to sell rare records. > > Don > > Don Dellmann > don.dellm...@prodigy.net > http://www.flickr.com/photos/don_dellmann/ > http://www.youtube.com/user/CreamCityTraction > Owner > http://groups.yahoo.com/group/vintageHO > http://groups.yahoo.com/group/scenery > _______________________________________________ > Phono-L mailing list > http://phono-l.oldcrank.org _______________________________________________ Phono-L mailing list http://phono-l.oldcrank.org
