Recent auction ending prices

[Guest micksmith]

Chuck Jackson - Hand It Over - Pye International £ 330

Del Larks - Job Opening ) pt. 1 & 2 - Queen City Demo! £ 4091 

Mary Saxton - Take My Heart - Quality £ 910

Troy Dodds - Try My Love - El Camino £ 859

Edwin Star - S.O.S. (Scotts On Swingers) - Ric-Tic demo £ 386

Masquaders - That's The Same Thing - Soultown £ 960

Ernest Mosley - Stubborn Heart - La £ 1364

Thelma Lindsey - Prepared To Love You c/w Why Weren't You  - Magic City £ 291

Sam Dees - Fragile, Handle With Care - Atlantic £ 130

Eddie Foster - I Never Knew - In £ 357

Jack Montgomery - Don't Turn Your Back On Me - Barracuda  £ 389

Cautions - No Other Way - Shrine £ 1309

Bobby Sheen - SomethingNew To Do - Warner Bros £ 271

James Brown and His Famous Flames - Night Train - Parlophone Demo £ 22

Frank Wilson - Do I Love You (Indeed I Do) - Tamla Motown £ 181

O.C. Smith - On Easy Street - Columbia £ 140

Carol Anderson - Taking My Mind Off Love c/w I'm Not Worried - Whip £ 359

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[Guest micksmith]

it's great-got all these keep them prices climbing.

just sold a copy of e/mosley for £500-dame sold it too cheap.

[Guest micksmith]

I bid on a record on there and won it for what I thought was the 'right' price, so i'd say they probably do exist.....

And you can probably bet they are the same ones who say they picked the record up for a couple of $s in a detroit basement, just to look like they are a top digger...

WOOF!

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YOU'RE THE ONLY PERSON I KNOW WHO'S BOUGHT SOMETHING OFF HIM.

ANYBODY ELSE GOT ANYTHING OFF HIM-OR ARE YOU TOO SHY TO TELL US.

[Guest Dan]

I bid on a record on there and won it for what I thought was the 'right' price, so i'd say they probably do exist.....

And you can probably bet they are the same ones who say they picked the record up for a couple of $s in a detroit basement, just to look like they are a top digger...

WOOF!

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To be fair, I bought Gwenn Douglass off his auction at an inflated price a year or so back (£300 but I've loved it for years and rarely if ever saw one so was prepared to pay it) and I also tried hard to get Johnny Rodgers until it went totally mad. So some of the bids obviously are real.

But I just can't believe that EVERY record he sells gets these prices...if you stuck them on ebay, which must have a much bigger market, you wouldn't get £271 for Bobby Sheen (great record though it is IMO) surely?

And it's not like the people who are bidding on Manship auctions i) haven't got computers ii)) haven't heard of eBay iii) have never seen or heard of another Bobby Sheen being offered for sale.

Just weird IMO.

Edited November 18, 2004 by Dan

[Pete S]

Those auctions don't have a fixed end time either - every time a bid goes on, the end time is extended

[jimmy clitheroe]

just curious,any body know which u.s auction site frank wilson went for $33000

[Guest cC B]

just curious,any body know which u.s auction site frank wilson went for $33000

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I think this whole thing was just a joke. Read the full story somewhere.

[Godzilla]

just curious,any body know which u.s auction site frank wilson went for $33000

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I think it was Record Collector Mags "Gulliblestories'r'us.com"

[jimmy clitheroe]

i read it in the record collector magazine a couple of months ago,i think r searling did the article,no sure though,good stitch up

[Guest]

I don't think these people really exist, myself.

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They do exist, or at least I actually got the money for a couple of records he auctioned on my behalf some time back. Troy Dodds at £859 would be a bit steep even before they turned up, and now after quite a few copies surfaced? The Cautions on Shrine at £1309(!) that has sold SEVERAL times on ebay in the last year for less than £500. I don't understand how a discrepancy of over £800 is possible, how can a record that has sold more than a few times at £400 - £500 suddenly sell for £1300+, especially weird when at least I think there are more copies where these came from.

Edited November 18, 2004 by Guest