Another Update On The Big Auction: Better News

So there’s more on the big auction last week by the seller Nautiluso: The buyer who left the negative feedback yesterday? He has rescinded the negative feedback. His exact comment is: “Seller now agrees to accept Pay Pal. Emails appear to be legitimate.” It will be interesting to see what happens and whether the buyers are happy with the condition of their records. I will say that there is a strong tendency in the community to suspect fraud: In addition to what appeared on the Jazz Collector site, I received a few emails from people quite skeptical that this auction was for real. My personal feeling was to give the seller the benefit of the doubt, based on the fact that he

had a significant amount of feedback, almost all of it positive. Where I did have skepticism is in paying those staggering prices sight unseen. But that’s an inherent risk with eBay, is it not? I had put in a bid for one of the Jackie McLean records.  I figured I’d take one for the team and see for myself whether the condition was legitimate. If not, I could always write it off as a business expense. But my $400-plus bid didn’t even come close to winning the action. So, as is often the case here, to find out the truth we will all have to depend on the kindness (and comments) of strangers.