Mellotronists

Your range sounds about right to me.  Maybe $6500 tops.
BTW, I think you mean "Let's Make a Deal?" (re: contestants
dressing up).

My guess is, the $9000 figure came from the fact that Markus
charges that for a plexiglass one.  The thing he's missing
is, demand has gotta be absolutely zero for that.

Though $5200 is reasonable for a white one, and it's cool
they give you options for other cabinets.


--- In Mellotronists@yahoogroups.com, "mellotrongirl" 
<mellotrongirl@h...> wrote:
> 
> When I see items like this appear on eBay, I like to make a wild 
guess
> on what the winning bid would be, and I figured it would go for
> $5,000-$6,000. Like I was on The Price Is Right, competing with 
three
> other contestants. I'd be the one dressed up like an art 
critic...the
> old lady with the horn to her ear like on the cover of the Atomic
> Rooster album.
> 
> These eBay consignment folks tend to charge 25% to list items they
> estimate are worth over $50...at least around my neighborhood. The
> same shop lists rare record albums for a flat fee of five dollars
> each. That's a touchy situation there, since if you don't get the
> grading exactly right, a negative feedback falls back on the shop.
> 
> I'm glad somebody took the time to take some good hi-res clickzoom
> shots of the unit; highlighting the defects...in this case the 
cracks
> in the plexiglass. I wonder how a consigner handles a reserve price
> not met issue.
> 
> I've purchased a number of intricate items on eBay that looked like
> they were photographed with a frame grammer using a Fisher-Price
> PixelVision PXL-2000 toy camcorder, transferred via fax, and then 
scanned!
> 
> "is that a real poncho...I mean is that a Mexican poncho...or is 
that
> a Sears poncho?"