On eBay Now: One Stellar Collection
Have you seen the jazz vinyl being sold this week on eBay by the seller nautiluso?We are quite agape and agog. There are a good 75 classic jazz collectibles — Blue Notes, Prestiges, Transitions — and most of them seem to be original pressings in very nice condition. The seller is from Rio de Janeiro and says in the listings that they are from his personal collection. His eBay feedback is pretty good, not stellar, and he normally seems to sell a mix of jazz and classical records. The items he has listed this week are a pretty nice jazz collection unto themselves. We’ll post a few of the records here, but it would be worth your time to click one of these and look at the seller’s other items as well.
Jackie McLean, The New Tradition, Ad Lib 6601. This is one of the rarest of the jazz collectibles — could it be the rarest? — and this copy is listed in M- condition for both the record and the cover. In the Jazz Collector Price Guide we’ve twice recorded this one selling for more than $3,000. This one
will probably get there as well: It is more than $1,000 now with nearly five days to go and it has already been viewed more than 100 times.
Jutta Hipp With Zoot Sims, Blue Note 1530. This is an original Lexington Avenue pressing, also listed in M- condition for both the record and the cover. The current price is about $320, with lots of time left.
I’ll show you one more, but please check out the rest: It’s worth the effort: Hank Mobley Quintet, Blue Note 1550. This is also one of the really rare ones. It is also an original pressing in M- condition. The current price is about $300, but this one will also probably surpass $1,000, and maybe $2,000.
It’s an interesting concept what this seller is doing: Putting up so many rare, expensive records at once. It will be a windfall: Perhaps $40,000 or $50,000 in just one week. It’s certainly a way to raise money quickly.
Yes , based on titles and description, i think this is the most extraordinary jazz collection to be sold on Ebay. period. But on the other hand, the guy is in South Alerica, with a low reputed post service, and his feed back is not very high. PIctures of the records are not enough sharp. The guy will probably not rase the same amount of money compared to what Euclidrecord could raise with equibvalent records… If you have enough money, this is the occasion to buy an essential jazz collection in jut one auction…
I will not even try to catch one of them
Some of the descriptions are really odd. Having almost been a victim to a famous-among-Ebay-jazz-collectors fraud out of Italy a few years back, I am always cautious and looking for flags. Some of his descriptions talk about Blue Note LPs after catalog number 4019 having no R mark, yet deep grooves etc. I though they started putting the R trademark on original pressings right around the catalog number. Also he is listing pressings in the Blue Note 4100 series as having no R mark and deep groove. First, original pressings, I believe, do not have the deep groove at this point in the catalog numbering, and certainly all 4100 series have the registered trademark R. Maybe these things just worked their way into this listings through cut and paste, etc. But there are some noticeable inconsistencies with what would be a true first pressing.
The problem with ebay is simple: you never really know what you’re buying until you’re holding it in your hands, at which point it’s too late.
I CANCELLED ALL MY BIDS FROM HIS LISTING, something just don’t feel right, i asked for more photos of the lp’s and jackets, that request was met with the old” i’m out of town right now”
the fact that he lives in brazil. but his me page is written in german….
and as a person who was ripped off from italy before i will not be another victim, so i will pass… if someone like euclid records was auctioning this off, i would feel alot safer, but since he is not a established international seller, and the fact that ebay will not release information from brazil( even if fraud occurs)
makes me say i’ll pass. nuff said !
I’m not sure that a German living in Brazil is that suspicious, however having looked at his feedback & detailed seller scores I would certainly take his grading with a large pinch of salt. Obviously it’s worrying if he’s not prepared to furnish further info, esp (as Brian says) some of the listing details are inaccurate when compared to the label photos. Academic to me anyway as it’s all out of my league – he looks like scoring some pretty big bucks. Can anyone tell me what “Grading look me side plase.” means though?
Pictures are not good quality. And that is not a good point when you pretend to send top collectors at top price. I’m always suspicious about bad quality photos, except for a low price item, or when the seller does not pretend to be a connoisseur. This is not the case in this auction.
@Bluenotejazz : i remember very well the italian scam artist. At the risk of being regarded as pretentious, i suspected the scam from the very beginning, when i asked the guy to provide a picture of one record i was interested…the scam was largely discussed ang jazz collector community, at this time.
As a follow up, in my experience, prices paid to Brazilian sellers tend to be lower because of the difficulties involved in enforcing rights under Ebay and PayPal policies. So the fact that the prices went beyond the pale also suggests to me that some shilling/false bidding up may have occured as well. Will be fun to watch this unfold (with apologies to anyone who participated if it turns out to be a scam — hope its not).
One month after, NO FEEDBACK ! Not even ONE feedback, good or bad, to the interesting and expensive LPs of “nautiluso” on eBay.
Isn’t it strange ?
Yes, I’ve been watching this as well. I reached out yesterday to one of the bidders and, thus far, no response. We’ll keep watching this one.
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“I reached out this morning to […]”
Well, please go on…
Can you believe that nobody has received his/her LPs from this auction ?
It is so true that building relations in your business is the first thing you need to establish to see success. Some people do that by sharing things for free, some do that by creating highly unique content and some do that by getting personal. I am trying to combine all three and in the long term I?m sure this will work.
Al gives stuff away for free, provides highly unique content, and his accounts of his personal collection habits are common. works on me.
Any news?
Look at nautiluso feedback.