Foolish People: clueless ebay record sellers

If he knows enough about it to know it's an original pressing, then he's familiar with its provenance; and if he's familiar with its provenance, then he knows it's trivial to mention it's an original pressing, unless he has some motive other than being flippant for mentioning it.
 
Outside_Lookin_in said:
If he knows enough about it to know it's an original pressing, then he's familiar with its provenance; and if he's familiar with its provenance, then he knows it's trivial to mention it's an original pressing, unless he has some motive other than being flippant for mentioning it.
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A lot of people, including (and especially) hordes of eBay sellers, don't know the real story of this, the Huntsmen and Thee Wylde Maniacs. They think they're all from the sixties.
They don't frequent boards like this to learn about the records they hawk on the Bay. They just check things out on sites like Pipsike and Collector's Frenzy, which are filled with incorrect information about obscure (to the rest of the collecting world) records, when there even is any info aside from the selling price, which is what they primarily care about anyway.
How many non-knowledgeable sellers who use the results sites do you think actually look past the result listings for any records they "research"?

You can't project your own knowledge and familiarity onto others.
Especially clueless eBay sellers. Their interest is to sell a record, not become an expert on it. They don't understand all the nuances you describe.
It's unfortunate that the internet has opened the way for such people to step up and pass themselves off as record dealers, but that's the way of the times and we have to adapt. Which means it's more important for the buyer to be the one who has to be familiar, knowledgeable and alert, which is the case no matter what the seller is about.
In this instant, it's up to the buyer to know this isn't a 60s record and act accordingly. And believe it or not, there are people who know the truth about all three records and still want them anyway (though not at the price this seller is asking). In the end, it's all about the music.
 
Heitkotter77 said:
He's not lying. (It is the original press.)
He's just not telling the truth.

But he may not know the truth.
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i'm not sure, but looking at popsike, it seems that the seller already sold copies of this in past. in an earlier auction, this was described as 1966 garage punk. seller does not do that anymore, so somebody probably told him.

in the past, this already sold for a hundred bucks. that's the price you have to pay for not reading TBM , since this is well documented there in the bootleg section!
 
"Its not perfect and not priced at perfect. But this record is rare and if you want one of the last one's left, here is your chance."

Neither the record nor the seller's use of apostrophes are perfect.
 
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starfire103 said:
i'm not sure, but looking at popsike, it seems that the seller already sold copies of this in past. in an earlier auction, this was described as 1966 garage punk. seller does not do that anymore, so somebody probably told him.

in the past, this already sold for a hundred bucks. that's the price you have to pay for not reading TBM , since this is well documented there in the bootleg section!
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This seller sold two copies 3 years ago with the exact same description as the current listing. He never once said it was 60s, only called it original pressing, which technically it is.
I'd say he knew nothing back then and just recopied his old listing without any further checking.

These are his from 2011:

http://www.popsike.com/php/detaildatar.php?itemnr=250864046355
http://www.popsike.com/php/detaildatar.php?itemnr=260763785696

The October "VG+/1966" is not his.

http://www.popsike.com/php/detaildatar.php?itemnr=131327838175
 
He's not "excepting" returns on it either!

Don't they teach spelling in school anymore?

Some pet peeves of mine:
"repo" used instead of "repro" . Repo is short for repossession not reproduction. I've seen this hundreds of time.
And I don't know how many times I've seen "hugh lot"
 
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