Here you go. Only $40,000.00.
Here you go. Only $40,000.00.
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You don't have to rush to get your bid in. That one will be there for a while.
"It's comparable to playing a cheese slicer."
--M. Stillion
"Bargain instruments are no bargains if you can't play them"
--J. Garber
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!
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....
How many dollars per page does that work out to?
Well, at least he lowered it by 10K...he ran it at 50K a while back...
Hughes F-5 #1
Hughes A model #1
1922 Gibson A-2
1958 Gibson A-5
Those missing pages concern me. I'm thinking the "genius" from A Beautiful Mind might have been involved.......
Just because it's old (and a bit cool) does NOT make it valuable!
I thought we'd seen this before, thanks Vernon.
Timothy F. Lewis
"If brains was lard, that boy couldn't grease a very big skillet" J.D. Clampett
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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!
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.
I often "watch" things that I am curious what they will finally sell for.
Ludicrous. Simply ludicrous.
Allen Hopkins
Gibsn: '54 F5 3pt F2 A-N Custm K1 m'cello
Natl Triolian Dobro mando
Victoria b-back Merrill alumnm b-back
H-O mandolinetto
Stradolin Vega banjolin
Sobell'dola Washburn b-back'dola
Eastmn: 615'dola 805 m'cello
Flatiron 3K OM
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.
it's not worth a dime over 39,999.00
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.
Allen Hopkins
Gibsn: '54 F5 3pt F2 A-N Custm K1 m'cello
Natl Triolian Dobro mando
Victoria b-back Merrill alumnm b-back
H-O mandolinetto
Stradolin Vega banjolin
Sobell'dola Washburn b-back'dola
Eastmn: 615'dola 805 m'cello
Flatiron 3K OM
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?
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!
It might actually sell. This is how you launder money.
PJ Doland
1923 Gibson Snakehead A
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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