MultSanta@aol.com wrote:
quoted 8 lines that's not what I'm saying.
> that's not what I'm saying.
> What I'm saying is that they don't have to be sold for that high.
> Selling a record you got for $8 and selling it for $32 is still a great
> turnaround (4x). But the people are trying to push the edge and sell
> them up
> to $100, just because they know that some poor sap who wasn't as lucky to
> get
> them when they first came out would spend for them.
Huh?
If I decide I want to sell something, then why shouldn't I sell it at the
highest price someone will pay?
It's not an issue of turnaround; it's an issue of what the piece is worth,
which is agreed to when the buyer hands money to the seller and the seller
hands the piece to the buyer.
Let's say that instead of $8, you spent $30 for it. Would you then say
that $32 is reasonable, or should I be allowed to sell it for $120? It
doesn't make any sense. If the piece is worth $100, then the person who
bought it for $8 and the person who bought it for $30 should be able to
sell it for $100.
And when did you become the authority on how much turnaround is "enough?"
I've bought a lot of music that today isn't "worth" a broken shoelace. If
I ever decide to sell them, I'm going to lose money overall. Life is hard.
So why is it a problem for me to make as much money as I can on the music
that is still worth something? Is that "greedy?" I don't know; I know
that even when I've paid a lot of money for a piece of music that I really
wanted, nine times out of ten I'm happy that I did, and I don't consider
the other party "greedy" for asking for the money. It only seems "greedy"
if it's above what *you* are willing to pay.
I have no problem with someone selling a Joyrex for $100 if they can. I
can't afford to spend it, so I won't be able to buy it. That's my problem,
not the seller's. That's just the way things work in the collector's
market (which is where we are when it comes to some of this music).
Whining about it is useless.
And since I can't afford a Joyrex, I've managed to make a tape trade with
someone who owns them. So now I can at least listen to the stuff. I hope
one day to be flush enough that I can buy an original, or that I luck upon
one for cheap (it happens), but until then, I don't have one. I can deal
with that. *shrug* And I'm perfectly willing to do tape trades of the
rare music I own in exchange for tapes of things I want to hear. I care
more about hearing music than I do about owning the original, but I'd like
to own the original if I can. I just can't always afford it. It's like
anything else in life.
-- Adam J Weitzman -- Individual, Inc. --
http://www.individual.com --
"If there's been a way to build it, there'll be a way to destroy it,
Things are not all that out of control." - Stereolab, "Crest"