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plus, tell the buyer its cash only. fuck the irs.

I'm sure the winning bidder will AT LEAST inquire about how it's being shipped. At this price I imagine that kind of conversation eventually ends up a phone call and many emails. They likely have picked up on the fact that this guy may be pretty clueless...

i don't know clueless he is. yeah he was ready to take $4,000 but to be fair there is no standard to go by and $4,000 is gonna sound like a lot to someone. if i had found this in a box i would have known it was money but i never would have known how much money.

yeah to be fair he did start the auction at 500 bucks not 5. and he's at least conscious enough about condition to say "no" to all the people who are like "you need to play it once and record it," it's right to leave that up to the buyer imo.

When someone offers me $4000 for something I'm not sure of the value of, I'd google it before accepting any offer.

Yeah it's a clueless thing for someone to just accept an offer like that seemingly right off the bat. Saying it's because you "live close to where the artist is from" is especially flimsy as the only reasoning at that price even if you're a collector.

that's the thing, he wouldn't find a price if he googled.

wow...

HOLY SHIT

Have you figured out who the winning bidder is skot?

whoa. I looked at it with 8mins left and it was still at $16K. forgot to go back to the tab and missed all the fireworks. holy cow.

Hope it wasn't one of your kids mucking around on your account xp

uh. damn. wouldn't have guessed that high

i don't know who it was. maybe ian does.

http://offer.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewBidderProfile&mode=1&item=300969625287&aid=j***e&eu=&bidtid=872656441020&view=NONE&ssPageName=PageBidderProfileViewBids_None_ViewLink

Is this the highest an online auction for a record has ever gone?

I guess "david" is kicking himself for not offering the $4k up before that first bid more than ever at this point.

hoooo boy.. that'salottamoolah.

no idea who the winner is. if i find out, i'll be sure to let ya'll know..

Christ, along with his other auctions he made $40.000!

dude on facebook is saying tefteller bought it, but i wouldn't want anyone to quote me on that just yet...

told ya

yup, same feedback number

yeah. hoo.

i imagine we'll get a cd reissue on the next volume of "the stuff that dreams are made of" or somesuch similar reissue.

i figured he wouldn't let that go. and he has very deep pockets.

he will DEFINITELY go get it and take a look at that dude's storage lockers!

yeah, totally. teft may score big, but the seller is gonna make mad bucks.

everyone wins except other 78 collectors

"Put it somewhere safe, i'll be right there. To the Teftmobile!"

what do you bet he already bought his plane tickets before the auction ended

hi dere

http://tefteller.com/images/john_t_78.JPG

everyone wins except other 78 collectors

― ian, Wednesday, September 25, 2013 9:59 PM (56 seconds ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

because now ppl are gonna be selling all their 78s for more money?

if i have any beef with tefteller its just that he can get a hundred dollar buy it now price for something i'd be lucky to get 20 bucks for on ebay. cuzza his name. but hey that's not his fault. he's got the rep.

pete -- i just mean in the sense that he's probably gonna scoop up a lot of other records from this dude that other ppl will never even have a chance to bid on, if he goes to visit him and checks out his storage units.

my friend adam once tried to bid on a sleepy john estes record that tefteller was selling on his site and got a really snide reponse back being like, "you're never going to win with a bid so low! you should bid more! the investment value of these records blag blh blah

spend more money, dummy!

pete -- i just mean in the sense that he's probably gonna scoop up a lot of other records from this dude that other ppl will never even have a chance to bid on, if he goes to visit him and checks out his storage units.

Especially since the seller's wife wants him to "DOWNSIDES."

Haha. I think by DOWNSIDES he was saying that he wanted to buy storage lockers to flip the contents and his wife said there were DOWNSIDES.

SEE DISCRIPTION

I assumed he meant downsize ("Get rid of all that crap, George!").

I re-read and you are probably right!

Ok so who is tefteller??

http://www.tefteller.com/

I've never heard of that guy, but I have a Maddox Brothers and Rose record that he's asking $250 and a Reno and Smiley one for $200! I had no idea those king country records were worth money?

he's a bit crazzzzyy and definitely gets more money for some records than they're worth. also depends on the condition of course. 78 ppl are nuts about condition.. but less so with the post war stuff, i find.

Wow, watching this auction today and reading Tefteller's blog inspired me to put up my beloved VG- copy of Glass Houses on eBay today. Vinyl is the new stock market!

wtf gyg@x!

where u been bro??

he comes in with the tide.

anybody know where duder's $$$$ came from? certainly not from buying and selling records... must be nice to not actually have to make a living doing your "job".

no kids, i assume? where will these records go when he kicks it?

he very definitely makes his money selling records.

he does his own blues auctions

http://www.tefteller.com/html/current_auction/Tefteller-October-17-KIller-Blues-auction/Tefteller-October-17-Killer-Blues-auction-pix-pg1.html