Old Jazz Collector Habits Die Hard

Al — Tue, 09 Aug 2011 13:30:20 +0000

Now that I’m sort of settled in from my month of moving, I’m resorting back to some old habits, browsing eBay page by page by page and even occasionally throwing in a bid, even though I really don’t want to be buying records and would much prefer to be selling records. But some habits are hard to break and, when I see what may be a bargain on eBay, it is hard to resist swinging over to the sniping software and placing a bid. There is a mindlessness to it and, as they say, idle hands are the Jazz Collector’s tools. In any case, I didn’t win last night’s snipe, thank goodness, which was this: Jazz By Matthew Gee, Riverside 221, which looked to be an original white label pressing with what may have been original plastic wrap. The record was M- and the cover was VG+ and with two hours to go on the auction there was only one bidder and $9. I figured I could possibly get the record cheaply, so I put in a snipe at about $45, but I didn’t come close. It wound up selling for $126.17.

I was also considering a bid on this one because it wasn’t getting much action:

Julius Watkins Sextet, Blue Note 5053. This was an original 10-inch pressing and it was probably in VG+ or VG++ condition for the record and probably VG+ for the cover, although the seller uses a grading system unlike mine and, seemingly, unlike that of anyone else. But he does have more than 11,000 feedbacks and a 100 percent rating, so it must work on some level. Anyway, this was hovering in the $50 range for a while and wound up selling for $130.50. I wouldn’t have gone that high, which is a good thing, since my 10-inch LPs are now sitting in storage and, frankly, I still don’t have a plan or a place for them to permanently settle.

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