Catching Up With The Jazz Collector Price Guide
I am taking advantage of the holiday time to update the Jazz Collector Price Guide, which could use some new records. So for the next couple of days, at least, I’ll be following up on records I mentioned earlier, or some I never mentioned at all and somehow missed the first time around. Here goes:
Boy did I have my eyes on this one: Sonny Rollins and Thelonious Monk, Prestige 190. This was an original 10-inch pressing in what looked to be VG++ condition for the record and probably VG for the cover. When I was pondering this there were a few hours to go and the price was just in the $110 range. It wound up selling for $430.
Eric Dolphy, Out to Lunch, Blue Note 84163. This was an original stereo pressing in just VG+ condition for the record and the cover, but it was packaged very nicely and we anticipated it would get a nice bid. It did, topping out at $303.
This was a strange one: Jackie McLean, The New Tradition, Ad-Lib 6601. This was an original pressing in VG+ condition for both the record and the cover. When we first wrote about it, we noted that there was a buy-it-now price of $2,000. We figured someone would grab it up at that price. No one did. However, the bidding ended up at $1,975. Seems to me if you were willing to bid as much as $1,975 for the record, just buy it for $2,000 and save yourself the stress and aggravation.
I’ll go you one better on your question re the McLean
http://www.ebay.com/itm/Riverside-433-Cannonball-Adderley-with-Bill-Evans-Know-What-I-Mean-mono-1961-/261237592133?pt=Music_on_Vinyl&hash=item3cd2f95045
The starting price ($119) is the same as the buy-now price??? why would anyone bid on an album if he can buy it for the same EXACT price immediately?
buy it now price is $ 199, not 119.
you’re right – sorry –
$119 still to high for this album, particularly no DG and VG+ condition
The explanation for McLean could be that high bidders have not found this listing before the “buy-now” offer has been cancelled with the first bid on the auction (which was quite early)… Moreover the hope that you can get the record well below “buy-now” level makes you take part in the auction even you are ready to spend a fortune… I know that from my buying experience on ebay… There will be a next Ad Lib there sooner or later and the game will start again…
Gandi — once there is a bid on the auction, the buy-it-now offer is cancelled? That doesn’t make sense to me.
http://www.ebay.com/itm/Bethlehem-BCP16-Hal-McKusick-Quartet-East-Coast-Jazz-Series-No-8-vinyl-NM-/261237592273?pt=Music_on_Vinyl&hash=item3cd2f950d1
Here’s an unrealistic “BIN” price, for a record that usually commands high prices. Without any reason, at least to my ears !
Al, yes – as soon as there is a first bid on the auction, the “buy-now” option is gone. Looking for a logic behind this ebay rule I think they try to protect buyers who already placed a bid (remember that a maximum bid on the auction could theoretically be higher than “buy-now” price!)…
My new rule of thumb is that the price of any record you want will increase on average 2.78 times your maximum snipe bid in the last 2 hours of the auction. Sometimes, that increase will occur with 45 minutes left to go; other times in the last 6 seconds.
Something like Moore’s law, only more debilitating.