Archive of the former Yahoo!Groups mailing list: Mellotronists

When I see items like this appear on eBay, I like to make a wild guess
on what the winning bid would be, and I figured it would go for
$5,000-$6,000. Like I was on The Price Is Right, competing with three
other contestants. I'd be the one dressed up like an art critic...the
old lady with the horn to her ear like on the cover of the Atomic
Rooster album.

These eBay consignment folks tend to charge 25% to list items they
estimate are worth over $50...at least around my neighborhood. The
same shop lists rare record albums for a flat fee of five dollars
each. That's a touchy situation there, since if you don't get the
grading exactly right, a negative feedback falls back on the shop.

I'm glad somebody took the time to take some good hi-res clickzoom
shots of the unit; highlighting the defects...in this case the cracks
in the plexiglass. I wonder how a consigner handles a reserve price
not met issue.

I've purchased a number of intricate items on eBay that looked like
they were photographed with a frame grammer using a Fisher-Price
PixelVision PXL-2000 toy camcorder, transferred via fax, and then scanned!

"is that a real poncho...I mean is that a Mexican poncho...or is that
a Sears poncho?"