Low or non charting songs that deserved better

[hornet61]

I actually do better on Craigs list .....e-bay is too much work, and Craigs list is just as fast, and if you know what you are doing it allows you to recognize the real buyers from the lowballers and the casual collectors,and most importantly the scammers.. Don't devalue a persons knowledge and their assets by what you see bought and sold by others. you don't know the condition, the demand whats hot, whats not, and speak from experience not Google. And yes I am a record collector, cd Collector , reference book collector and anything else that has to do with music. And I have programmed two Oldies stations and one very successful Internet station with these collections. Listing you collection for 90% of its book value is not how it works.. and you are right lets not argue this point anymore..it's getting a little one-sided.

Please direct me to your Craigslist listings. I'd love to see them.

Why, do have $15 to spend that seems to be your threshold, everytime you repond to my post, at least the other guy spends up to $36.

 

[firepoint525]

lets see if it was prime mint, it would have gone for $200-$300, which is information you got from a book or made it up....but you think books are misleading...then you bought more than $36 dollars that you ended giving away, gee, a whole $36 dollars. Now you are in a zone you know nothing about and shouldn't jump in like that and sound totally misinformed..You should stick to what you do best , respond to every post, after you looked it up in Wikipedia. you can't retort intelligently on record collecting (buying 45's at woolworth for 39 cents doesn't make you a record collector) until you have some experience at it...my first clue was there is no category Prime Mint...see your mistake was reponding "You Are Right All records are Crap" to the post by Fonze who likes to contradict me by citing examples from e-bay..record collecting is like anything else supply and demand , which constantly drives the prices up and down. The books are guide line, a place to start, just cause Fonz finds something on E-bay doesn't establish a price that will not change dramatically up or down. I am by no means an expert, but I am experienced enough, and have bought and sold more than $36 worth, for years, to recognize fact from fiction. And the price guides from Osbourne, Gold Mine and others are not misleading if you know how to use them.

Wow, did someone pee in your Cheerios this morning? :

Y'know, hornet, at one time, I respected your opinion, but here lately, you have just become a grouchy old man. I call you on the carpet for getting chart stats wrong, and you just whine about it. Now you have just resorted to juvenile schoolyard insults. So don't even bother with responding to me anymore.

I don't owe you an explanation, but for your information, I didn't list certain records that I have in my collection, on Ebay, simply because similar records already listed there weren't selling! :

Most of the rest of what you posted here, is pure b.s. and not even worthy of a response by me. :

 

[firepoint525]

I actually do better on Craigs list .....e-bay is too much work, and Craigs list is just as fast, and if you know what you are doing it allows you to recognize the real buyers from the lowballers and the casual collectors,and most importantly the scammers.. Don't devalue a persons knowledge and their assets by what you see bought and sold by others. you don't know the condition, the demand whats hot, whats not, and speak from experience not Google. And yes I am a record collector, cd Collector , reference book collector and anything else that has to do with music. And I have programmed two Oldies stations and one very successful Internet station with these collections. Listing you collection for 90% of its book value is not how it works.. and you are right lets not argue this point anymore..it's getting a little one-sided.

Please direct me to your Craigslist listings. I'd love to see them.

He can't. He's b.s.-ing you. His response proves it. :

 

[firepoint525]

I once sold an Elvis EP 45 on Ebay for nearly $36! In prime mint condition, it would have gone for $250-$300! Because I knew that this record was in nowhere near good enough shape to sell for that price, I was quite pleased (and shocked!) to get $36 for it. The buyer was happy, too, because he submitted positive feedback for me.
But you are correct in that most records aren't worth crap. I spent more than $36 on records that I ended up having to give away when I moved, because I didn't want to take them with me, and used record stores wouldn't even take them! :'( But they also didn't take the Elvis EP that I mentioned in the above paragraph.)
So, yeah, the books are a bit misleading.

Of course that used record store doesn't generate near the amount of traffic that eBay does. That's probably why it was reluctant to buy your EP. It's all about the math....................the more people that see your record, the better chance you have to sell it.

This particular record store IS on the internet, and on E-bay. Search "Great Escape" on Ebay. See, unlike "hornet," I'm NOT "making stuff up." :

 

[TheFonz]

I once sold an Elvis EP 45 on Ebay for nearly $36! In prime mint condition, it would have gone for $250-$300! Because I knew that this record was in nowhere near good enough shape to sell for that price, I was quite pleased (and shocked!) to get $36 for it. The buyer was happy, too, because he submitted positive feedback for me.
But you are correct in that most records aren't worth crap. I spent more than $36 on records that I ended up having to give away when I moved, because I didn't want to take them with me, and used record stores wouldn't even take them! :'( But they also didn't take the Elvis EP that I mentioned in the above paragraph.)
So, yeah, the books are a bit misleading.

Of course that used record store doesn't generate near the amount of traffic that eBay does. That's probably why it was reluctant to buy your EP. It's all about the math....................the more people that see your record, the better chance you have to sell it.

This particular record store IS on the internet, and on E-bay. Search "Great Escape" on Ebay. See, unlike "hornet," I'm NOT "making stuff up." :

Sorry about that. I thought that you were talking about a local "brick and mortar" store.