Comments on: Buy the World’s Greatest Music Collection

By: steve

steve — Tue, 04 Mar 2008 17:20:38 +0000

i wanna see a track list…hahahaha…

By: Kent Higgins

Kent Higgins — Fri, 29 Feb 2008 02:06:25 +0000

Is not the interesting part of this story not the collection itself and whether or not it is worth $3 million, but the idea that a forum exists on which such a collection could be listed, examined, and discussed, all without our ever having seen the collection?

I never cease to be amazed by the offerings on eBay!

By: Higgins

Higgins — Tue, 26 Feb 2008 22:27:21 +0000

JJ – the auction was legitimate, but it appears that the winning bidder’s account was hacked. So I would be careful to say that the bid was fraudulent, not the whole thing.

By: JJ

JJ — Tue, 26 Feb 2008 05:28:28 +0000

THIS HAS BEEN EXPOSED AS A FRAUD AND NOTHING MORE THAN EBAY TRYING TO HYPE THEIR SITE DURING THE BOYCOTT… THE BUYER jopsoup NOW CLAIMS THAT HIS ACCOUNT WAS HACKED… SO MUCH FOR EBAY’S RECORD SALE!!! LOL!!!

By: Scott Neuman

Scott Neuman — Fri, 22 Feb 2008 17:11:01 +0000

The collection was appraised by Forever Vinyl at an average value of $50 million dollars. The collection has a charity donation value of $50 million and what should happen is that the cream of the collection should be sold off and the rest donated to charity for a nice tax write off. We offered to complete the appraisal but Recordrama couldn’t take advantage of the tax write off. The new owners can.
Scott Neuman President of Forever Vinyl. As it stands. He got around 6 cents on the dollar for the collection. Way below a donated value of dollar for dollar.

By: Jack

Jack — Thu, 21 Feb 2008 15:19:44 +0000

I’ve been to his store; you’re likely to get at least 1000 copies of Al Hirt or Sinatra and such. Probably 90% filler, 10% killer. Waste of plastic and space.

By: Moon

Moon — Thu, 21 Feb 2008 01:25:03 +0000

Does it have the “Wild Man Fischer” album on it?

/If not, it’s bogus! BOGUS!

By: Andy

Andy — Wed, 20 Feb 2008 23:00:57 +0000

If you’ve invested in a collection of over three million records there has got to be all kinds of good stuff in there. He operates a music museum for pete’s sake! I agree you have to have a healthy degree of skepticism, but vinyl collectors, as a rule, are pretty preoccupied with finding worthwhile records.

By: Melissa

Melissa — Wed, 20 Feb 2008 21:07:49 +0000

It sort of raises some red flags for me that neither in the auction listing nor on the website is there even a partial listing of the contents. While I wouldn’t expect him to list millions and millions of records, if he’s the music expert he presents himself to be, he would know some of the highlights that might be noteworthy to mention and could write a decent list that would be representative of what the collection actually contains. No list. No pics close enough to make any of the titles recognizable, except for that circle of records, with no claim that they are included in or representative of the mix or quality of the collection, so he could just say that they are an artistic representation of a history of records). Those could be the only decent dozen records in the lot and the rest be tons of duplicates of unsold stock of no-name artists and irrelevant bargain bin stuff. Could be a handful of cool records and a bunch of yard sale reject junk. Sounds way too good to be true. And usually, when it sounds that way, it is. Not that I have 3 million bucks, but if I did, I’d want it, but I’d be way too wary to bid on it.

By: beth

beth — Wed, 20 Feb 2008 21:04:24 +0000

Amazing! And I thought we had alot of records!