Comments on: Updating the $1,000 Bin (And Then Some)

By: Mattyman

Mattyman — Fri, 23 Sep 2011 08:55:50 +0000

Maybe y’all are right. Maybe I just shouldn’t bother trying to figure sellers out in the first place 😉

By: Mike

Mike — Fri, 23 Sep 2011 00:19:34 +0000

I agree that $5,600 is a large amount of money but I bet the collectors bidding on these records make a good but more than me. Whether they listen to it or not is another matter, but I don’t judge. Some people live in a world of jets, boats, and unplayed Blue Note first pressings. It sounds nice to me.

By: Tim

Tim — Thu, 22 Sep 2011 16:45:17 +0000

That Al Green is just comical–$177! I love those records too—but, $10, maybe $20 (stretch) for a super clean copy, right?

Who knows what the guy had into the Mobley. Either way he had a goldmine that, to me anyway, is too pristine and valuable too really enjoy. I can totally understand why someone cash out on it. Unless you’re going to keep every LP forever you need to do it eventually. I would figure that anyone spending anything over $100, let alone thousands, is looking at it (at least partially) as an investment.

By: ceedee

ceedee — Thu, 22 Sep 2011 12:41:34 +0000

Hey,folks-my feeling is that it doesn’t matter at ALL as to the “why” of this particular seller. The only thing that matters is whether or not we feel the record is worth it($$)to US,and if we plan on bidding on it as a consequence. Face it,if I had some of that stash,I’d hold out for the big bucks,too! My 70’s clipped corner,mono,blue/white UA issue of Dizzy Reece “Starbight” sounds pretty darn good. If I came across an original tommorrow,you better believe it would be ‘ebayed’ pronto. All the speculation about “why would he” and “how COULD he” sounds at times like sour grapes(sour gripes?). I should be so lucky..

By: Mattyman

Mattyman — Thu, 22 Sep 2011 08:14:25 +0000

Aaron: my thoughts indeed. Look, it’s clear that he’s selling top dollar jazz LPs and he’s obviously making a profit here. But that whole Levitt story is just a crock if you ask me. If it’s true that Levitt allowed him to simply flip through his best of the best copies, then it’s clear this guy just took what would sell big sometime in the future without any interest in the music and/or the records in question. And @ Jazzaficionado above: if you are right, then I’d like to ask you to elaborate on that swindle/nautiloso story! 😉

By: Aaron

Aaron — Thu, 22 Sep 2011 07:26:38 +0000

Mattyman, you bring up a good point, why would a seller as “savvy” as this pay $177 for a second pressing of Al Green’s Call Me from our friend bobdjukic no less?

By: Erich Schultz

Erich Schultz — Thu, 22 Sep 2011 03:09:30 +0000

Ok, criticize me folks, but why would you pay $5,600 for a record you could never play without decreasing the value? To me, the joy in records is playing them, not filing them away as some kind of investment. Paying this much for a record is stupid. Give me a 92 cent record from Record Surplus in LA any day (like the 1958 Cannonball Adderley “Things Are Getting Better” Riverside disc I picked up there 2 weeks ago)……

By: jazzafficionado

jazzafficionado — Thu, 22 Sep 2011 02:45:05 +0000

by further investigating (I know, I know I should feel bad !), it appears that the seller was involved in the greatest jazz records swindle in ebay. Remember our brazilian friend Nautiluso ?
I do have most original pressings he offered, but not picked from Levitt’s. Anyway I keep them, they’re my 401k I can listen to !

Good night.

By: Mattyman

Mattyman — Wed, 21 Sep 2011 22:02:07 +0000

I don't know about this Colossus3 seller. If you look at his feedback left for others (read: comments he left after he himself bought something), then you can see that he is buying crop loads of classic 78rpm records, 2nd world war military clothes and an occasional jazz, soul or Beatles record. And then he owns all these jazz holy grails from Leon Levitt, that he just sells. I just don't get it. Or he's just simply making money to buy more classic 78s and world war outfits. Am I the only one who feels weird about it? Or am I still just too much of a rookie here? I know my gut feeling ain't rookie and although he's selling the cream of the crop, I just think it's strange to know that he claims to have 'taken' records from Levitt for almost two decades, while at the same time his only interest is in buying tons of classic 78s from, mostly, the German Telefunken label. Why take so many jazz holy grails from Levitt's collection if you're only interested in classic 78s?

By: rockies

rockies — Wed, 21 Sep 2011 20:21:18 +0000

Hi,

you are right. Amazing auction.

Would be interested to know how much worths HM 1568 in the same condition with NY 23 on side 2?