Mellotronists

> From: "bob.snyder" <bob.snyder@...>
   > Date: Wed, 25 Jun 2003 21:28:09 -0700
   > 
   > There has been a bit of discussion lately about what trons are
   > worth, etc.
   > 
   > It is interesting to note regarding a couple of items that were
   > recently offered up on ebay:
   > 
   > Draw you own conclusions, but coupled with others reporting high
   > prices, it would seem that these things are getting more and more
   > valuable. The days of finding a bargain price on a Tron or
   > Chamberlin would seem to be gone for good.

I don't think it's reasonable to draw conclusions from eBay prices.  

Auctions naturally show high prices because the whole point of an
auction is to take advantage of a bidding frenzy.  And when you have
eBay's features like hidden reserves and the ability to spoof bids,
you're going to see a lot of unrealistically high prices.

Further, any situation where the cost of presenting the item for sale
is zero or near zero, there's a great inducement to float a high price
for an item with attitude of, "hell, maybe somebody will pay this
extra high price and I'll win big.  It costs me nothing to try."

The items you mention never actually sold, right?  I would only base
conclusions about price on actual sales.

  -- Don

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Don Tillman
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