Your range sounds about right to me. Maybe $6500 tops.
BTW, I think you mean "Let's Make a Deal?" (re: contestants
dressing up).
My guess is, the $9000 figure came from the fact that Markus
charges that for a plexiglass one. The thing he's missing
is, demand has gotta be absolutely zero for that.
Though $5200 is reasonable for a white one, and it's cool
they give you options for other cabinets.
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Mellotronists@yahoogroups.com, "mellotrongirl"
<mellotrongirl@h...> wrote:
>
> 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?"