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In Reply to: RE: geez ... your type of guys posted by 3Fates on August 18, 2014 at 05:53:48
The vibe are the estate sales in my area is a big turn off. At one of the sales a few years ago I walked into a room with about 12 big boxes of records. There is a very large man going through them. Before I could even start looking into a box the man says to me very firmly, 'Do not touch the records'. I ignored him and started digging into a box. He got nasty with language and physically threatened me. I got out of there quickly.
Too many re-sellers - at least friday mornings when the slaes usually begin. One guy even told me he does not even own a turntable just sells on ebay. I ask how does he grade .. he answers if its not too beat up its NM.
The only purchases I do now are new lps from the various online retailers. Last ebay lp I bought was maybe 5 years ago. I have about 5000 lps and very careful about adding more.
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Cactus is right - I keep all the valuable records I find, I've never sold anything.
I rely on the stock market to make money, it's much better than used classical records!
Cactus is right and wrong, depending on which comment we're talking about. Focussing on the intimidation by the 'large guy', I don't put up with that crap in any kind of situation, and I'm a 99 pound weakling. I tell such doofusses (sp?) that if they want to make a scene, they'll end up in jail, and then I appeal to their sensible side.
In 3Fates case, if that approach didn't work, I'd have gone straight to the sale manager and had the guy thrown out. Unless the guy owns the records, he has no business telling other people not to touch them.
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I wouldn't let one bad experience sour the whole scene. Perhaps a good approach to that big guy who got there first would have been saying "No problem, what have you already looked through, I'll start there."
I guess I'm lucky in that there's not much competition here in Wyoming. At this particular estate sale, there was one other digger who got there before me, but he wasn't very serious about it. In my experience, most guys are looking for Beatles, Pink Floyd, Led Zep, Black Sabbath and that sort of thing.
I have never had anybody threaten me over records! But I teach Kung-Fu and look like someone who could handle themselves in a fight. Even so, that is not something I would be willing to fight over. If someone does threaten me, that is assault. I would pull out my cellphone and dial 911 ...
Dave
as Alaska hiatt accurately calls it. Whether at estate sales, yard sales, church sales, antique barns or thrift shops, it is not the way to get rich quick. Anything of real monetary value has often been cherry picked already, and condition of the LPs is seldom ideal.
I focus on classical LPs, because those tend to be the least popular, and that is the area I had most of my musical training. For years, at least in the USA, people hunted for RCA stereo "shaded dogs" and left most of the rest alone, especially mono LPs. That left a lot of great music to me at little or no cost. Eventually, collectors got wise, and the best of the rarest got snapped up, including mono.
Still, one occasionally finds interesting and unusual stuff. Just not especially valuable. Cactus cowboy finds more than most, because he has likely looked through well over a million records. So he has earned any good finds he has. But they aren't making him rich, either.
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