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    Default Sounding Board Magazine on eBay - only $40,000

    Here you go. Only $40,000.00.

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    Default Re: Sounding Board Magazine on eBay - only $40,000

    You don't have to rush to get your bid in. That one will be there for a while.
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    Default Re: Sounding Board Magazine on eBay - only $40,000

    As an eBay seller myself, I am often perplexed with the question of how to price an item...............

    Most items, however, will fall somewhere into the range of being too cool to throw away and let's say, $40,000!

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    Default Re: Sounding Board Magazine on eBay - only $40,000

    well you can make an offer. Do you think the seller will take $10.00? It only takes me about 2 hours to drive to Pittsburgh....

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    Default Re: Sounding Board Magazine on eBay - only $40,000

    How many dollars per page does that work out to?

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    Default Re: Sounding Board Magazine on eBay - only $40,000

    Well, at least he lowered it by 10K...he ran it at 50K a while back...
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    Default Re: Sounding Board Magazine on eBay - only $40,000

    Those missing pages concern me. I'm thinking the "genius" from A Beautiful Mind might have been involved.......

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    Default Re: Sounding Board Magazine on eBay - only $40,000

    Quote Originally Posted by MikeEdgerton View Post
    You don't have to rush to get your bid in. That one will be there for a while.
    Yehhhh I think anyone with even a lizard brain will skip this one! You could have one heck of a mandolin/cabin/house/property etc...or even a huge brick of gold for that price but we do know some people have more $$$ than brains WOW

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    Default Re: Sounding Board Magazine on eBay - only $40,000

    Just because it's old (and a bit cool) does NOT make it valuable!
    I thought we'd seen this before, thanks Vernon.
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    Default Re: Sounding Board Magazine on eBay - only $40,000

    Quote Originally Posted by Jeff Mando View Post
    Those missing pages concern me. I'm thinking the "genius" from A Beautiful Mind might have been involved.......
    I'd take that into consideration. Probably not worth much over $38,500.


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    Default Re: Sounding Board Magazine on eBay - only $40,000

    Now available at a reduced in price.


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    Default Re: Sounding Board Magazine on eBay - only $40,000

    Ok I have to ask does this have like Loars autograph or any other monster players from the proverbial "back in the day" that we never heard play! Loar was supposed to be a master player but we have no recordings that exsist-I for one and many others would like to hear him play-maybe i the "hear" after so to speak!

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    Default Re: Sounding Board Magazine on eBay - only $40,000

    I just noticed that this item has 1 person 'watching'. I hope that this is only someone who is curious about the magazine itself, but not really a seriously interested buyer! If this thing sells at $37,000, you can almost bet that next week there will be another one on eBay for 'only' $30,000.

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    Default Re: Sounding Board Magazine on eBay - only $40,000

    I often "watch" things that I am curious what they will finally sell for.

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    Default Re: Sounding Board Magazine on eBay - only $40,000

    Ludicrous. Simply ludicrous.
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    Quote Originally Posted by LadysSolo View Post
    I often "watch" things that I am curious what they will finally sell for.
    I saw that a man had sold a rare marble on eBay for $32,000 about three years ago. I emailed him and told him I had a bunch of old marbles, but really didn't have a "feel" for what was valuable and if he could offer any pointers. He responded and was friendly, but basically told me it takes a lifetime of study to know the great ones from the very good ones. I can understand, considering all the minute details I've learned about instruments, that I probably will never have the chance to apply.

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    Default Re: Sounding Board Magazine on eBay - only $40,000

    it's not worth a dime over 39,999.00

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    Quote Originally Posted by Jeff Mando View Post
    I saw that a man had sold a rare marble on eBay for $32,000 about three years ago. I emailed him and told him I had a bunch of old marbles, but really didn't have a "feel" for what was valuable and if he could offer any pointers. He responded and was friendly, but basically told me it takes a lifetime of study to know the great ones from the very good ones. I can understand, considering all the minute details I've learned about instruments, that I probably will never have the chance to apply.
    A marble for $32,000, some people are out of their gourds! A real case of some have lost their "marbles"

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    A marble for $32,000, some people are out of their gourds! A real case of some have lost their "marbles"
    There are those who would say the same about a $200K Lloyd Loar F-5, or a Stradivarius with a several-million price tag. True, you can get more music out of them than out of a marble, but, really, "to each his own."

    To me the ultimate "why" is "precious" metals and jewels. Why does one metal command thousands of dollars an ounce, another maybe a few cents? Rarity? There are many rare substances that have low market values. It's a near-universal human agreement that some relatively rare things are valuable, others not. So we value gold and diamonds, not for any intrinsic level of usefulness, beauty, or relative rarity, but because there's a consensus that they're valuable,

    A consensus that doesn't extend to mandolins, which is why we can still find relatively rare and "valuable" instruments ignored and undervalued -- at least by our standards.

    I would reiterate, however, that by any standard with which I'm familiar, this $40K listing for a beat-up old music mag is ludicrous.
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    Default Re: Sounding Board Magazine on eBay - only $40,000

    Common sense would (should) tell you that most sellers/dealers would do some research on the value of their item, before they price it . . . so, what I want to know is where in the world did they get that asking price from? Did one of these (without missing pages) sell recently for $60,000, so they figured that $40,000 was reasonable?

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    Default Re: Sounding Board Magazine on eBay - only $40,000

    Irrespective of its rarity, a thing is only worth what someone is prepared to pay for it but it appears that the seller has now re-listed it for a much more reasonable $37,000.

    I think I'll pass on this one!

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    Default Re: Sounding Board Magazine on eBay - only $40,000

    It might actually sell. This is how you launder money.
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    Default Re: Sounding Board Magazine on eBay - only $40,000

    Quote Originally Posted by PJ Doland View Post
    It might actually sell. This is how you launder money.
    Wow, I never thought of that . . . but then again, I don't have a criminal mind.

    Scary.

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    Default Re: Sounding Board Magazine on eBay - only $40,000

    Now sitting at the ridiculous low price of only $33,000.00. Or, maybe skip the word "low."

    http://www.ebay.com/itm/1911-GIBSON-.../263086930715?

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    Quote Originally Posted by Mandolin Cafe View Post
    Now sitting at the ridiculous low price of only $33,000.00. Or, maybe skip the word "low."

    http://www.ebay.com/itm/1911-GIBSON-.../263086930715?
    There is a seller on eBay who inherited mandolin parts like a de-capitated old bowlback headstock and has them listed for well over five years. He never lowers the price, either. I think I told the, what these parts were worth when he first listed them. Oh well.
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