Cool rock-history auction at eBay

[wackymother Senior Member Find all posts View Profile Close wackymother]

Ooh, the bid went up. Look at this guy's feedback! I'd be pretty anxious if I were the seller and my $155,401 bidder had a 68 feedback with two negatives and a neutral...

[taffy19 Gold Contributor Find all posts View Profile Close taffy19]

Anyway, we still have a turntable, although my DH is the only one who uses it (I always hated putting the needle down). And there's actually a crowd of music people who feel that vinyl has a warmer sound, so there's still a market for high-end turntables.

I have a very good one too but am scared to use it and the old records we have sound absolutely awful because you hear all the scratches with our Bose system. Some of them bring back so many memories. I wished I could have them on a CD. Most of them I was able to get but not all as they are from foreign countries. I am still looking for them today. Sigh.

Even the covers of these old records are worth money too today. It's amazing.

By the way, the auction has ended up for US $155,401.00.

[bigfrank Administrator Find all posts View Profile Close bigfrank]

I still have my two DJ tables and mixer from when I was a DJ. I should go through my records to see if I can find something of value.

[mshatty Super Moderator Find all posts View Profile Close mshatty]

I still have my two DJ tables and mixer from when I was a DJ. I should go through my records to see if I can find something of value.

A couple of gold chains and you're ready to go!

[Tom52 Member Find all posts View Profile Close Tom52]

Velvet Underground ???

Never heard of um. Strange, since I grew up in the 60s listening to rock music. An aquaintence of mine in NYC owns the original acetate "Hey Joe" by Jimi Hendrix. Now that Jimi guy, I have heard of him!

[Glitter Brunello Super Moderator Find all posts View Profile Close Glitter Brunello]

Never heard of um. Strange, since I grew up in the 60s listening to rock music. An aquaintence of mine in NYC owns the original acetate "Hey Joe" by Jimi Hendrix. Now that Jimi guy, I have heard of him!

Lou Reed was in the Velvet Underground, you have probably heard of him. They were a very "insiders NYC" band, produced by Andy Warhol.

This is the only auction I've watched lately where the final bid price went down rather than up in the end... I wonder if the winner is happy or freaked out at the fact that the higher bids got canceled?

[wackymother Senior Member Find all posts View Profile Close wackymother]

Here's the latest on the acetate, from CNN. I looked on eBay but couldn't find a new listing for it. I bet it will go for much, much less this time around.




NEW YORK (AP) -- The cyberspace saga of The Velvet Underground's 40-year-old first recording was to continue after fetching a false eBay bid of more than $155,000.

The vintage Velvet was to be auctioned online again starting Thursday afternoon. The original bid bit the dust earlier this month when a young man in California e-mailed the seller and confessed he doesn't have enough money to buy the rare recording.

"Seriously, I can barely afford gas for my car to get to work," reads part of the message the seller says he got via eBay.

The first auction ended December 8, with eBay showing a final bid of $155,401 for the recording of music that ended up on the influential New York band's first album, "The Velvet Underground & Nico." Warren Hill, a collector in Montreal who owns the acetate LP, says he bought it at a flea market in Manhattan's Chelsea neighborhood for 75 cents in 2002.

The $155,401 bid was confirmed Wednesday by eBay spokeswoman Catherine England. She told The Associated Press, however, that eBay has no way to verify whether the bid is legitimate because "the transaction is between the buyer and seller."

The bidder has seven days to close on a deal, which is legally binding. After that, the seller -- Saturn Records, of Oakland, California, representing Hill -- may report a false bidder.

"I'm not going to sue him," a weary-sounding Hill said Wednesday in a telephone interview from Montreal. "I just want to sell it."

Copyright 2006 The Associated Press.