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goN' LPs at $10, I can buy for $0.18

I just wonder who would buy the piles of LPs listed in the classified that are common stuff. I can buy (and HAVE) many of these $10 wonders. I paid around $0.23 or $0.18 each for these LPs.
I mean stuff like Hall & Oats, Cars...(I got them all at $0.18 each)
I have like 2,000 LPs I paid under a quarter each for, as mint as can be! I COULD start listing them, trying to make a killing (as some seem to be trying to do), but I would be listing them at $1.00 and STILL feel I was robbing the blind.
I can understand the rarer MFSL etc, but the classifieds ads should have a charge for being placed, even $0.50, to cut the flood of junk filling the LP classified!!!
elizabeth
brianw
373 posts
 
To answer your question, jsonic, most people that have the disposable income to drop $5k for a turntable, 15-20K on a pair of speakers and a couple of g's on interconnects are too busy making money to spend time in Thrift Stores. They are simply too busy.

Those with the time can buy records for a dollar. Those with little time can buy them here at their leisure for $10.
jes453dc3
65 posts
 
Elizabeth: It's great that you have plenty of free time to scour the thrift stores. For those that are busy making money, $10/record may be a bargain. Yours is a completely different mind-set, try to comprehend this.

Cheers!
elizabeth OP
6,726 posts
 
I can comprehend that overcharging appears justified to some because:
These folks are loaded, so they won't care they are being overcharged.
These folks are too busy to know they CAN get most of these LPs lots of other places (not just thrift stores) for a LOT less.
The folks looking at these LP ads have a mind set that tells them that: "Of course these LPs are better, They must be, because they cost more!"
However these reasons are the same BS that makes $300 wooden volume knobs appealing.
It sucks and I just wanted to say so. I "comprehend" just fine, it's my 'moral compass' that may need to be reset to swollow this stuff?
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justlisten
489 posts
 
i am feeling the same way about tube sales here....

since the masses have begun to experiment with tubes, i have seen a great many here earn a pretty penny.....don't get me wrong, there is nothing wrong with letting the marketplace determine the value, however i agree with Elizabeths' observation "of course these LPS are better, they must be, because they cost more!", ...when looking at what tubes are selling here for, the bar is being raised by the uninformed, sort of a DOTcom boom in tubes.
jes453dc3
65 posts
 
Seems like I struck a nerve with you, Elizabeth. Nowhere did I equate $300 wood knobs (They're actually $485, just so you know) with a $10 record. Nor did I state that their loaded, so take advantage of them. (You're really reaching there). What I did state is that some people work very hard so they don't have to get filthy digging through Thrift Stores. Their time is worth much more than the $9.82 that you saved. They value time, where you value your pennies. It's really a different mindset, one that I don't think you'll ever understand. Those that do, can afford the nicer things in life.

Best Wishes.
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