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Huge Record Collection's Alleged Buyer May Be Getting Some Very Negative eBay Feedback Soon

wev567 — Sat, 23 Feb 2008 09:44:10 EST

A lot of this stuff, especially the old blues and jazz, doesn't exist anywhere else - not in the LOC, or at the record labels themselves. Sometimes they even use his records to create those "original master" box sets. This has to be worth more than $50 mil. Sell off the doubles (like the 50 sealed copies of the Phil Spector x-mas album) and "donate" or "loan" the rest to the LOC or a museum. The art market runs like this. Rich guys aren't buying $100 mil Van Goghs put them in their living rooms.

wev567

Huge Record Collection's Alleged Buyer May Be Getting Some Very Negative eBay Feedback Soon

Captain Wrong — Fri, 22 Feb 2008 19:07:34 EST

@Tenno: The problem is, this guy has tried to sell this collection a couple of times already to museums and the LoC. No museum has this kind of cash. Off the top of my head, I can't really picture what museum this would fit in with anyway.

Three million is a lot of scratch, especially for something that is going to require so much space and time and effort to manage. I'm trying to manage my own collection of just a couple thousand 12" and it's a pain in the ass. I can't even imagine what this would be like.

As I said other thread, I respect the guy's situation (failing health, wanting to leave something for the kids) but if he wants to keep this collection together, he's going to have to donate it. Who has the money, time and space for a beast like this?

Also, I'd like to know where the $50 mil estimated value comes from. That's about $17 an item for this collection. I find that hard to swallow. And seriously, anyone else seen the market for music lately? It's in the crapper all the way around.

Captain Wrong

Huge Record Collection's Alleged Buyer May Be Getting Some Very Negative eBay Feedback Soon

lukobe — Fri, 22 Feb 2008 17:56:51 EST

Ah, I see on an earlier post that his asking price was too much for the LoC....time for Paul Allen to step up again! I'd love to see this in Seattle :)

lukobe

Huge Record Collection's Alleged Buyer May Be Getting Some Very Negative eBay Feedback Soon

lukobe — Fri, 22 Feb 2008 17:55:09 EST

Yeah...I hope this turns out to be a fake, so that a museum or library can get ahold of it. I mean, this is basically what the Library of Congress is for, no?

lukobe

Huge Record Collection's Alleged Buyer May Be Getting Some Very Negative eBay Feedback Soon

Tenno — Fri, 22 Feb 2008 16:20:55 EST

Honestly, since he was getting lowballed for what amounts to a tremendous amount of history, I think this is good really. Maybe a museum or collector can get this guy what this is really worth.

Tenno