DCC McCartney anyone?

[Dave]

I recall someone on the forum here wanting this self titled McCartney album.

Well here it is and at a half decent price..............so far.;)

http://cgi.ebay.ca/aw-cgi/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=1508155961

[btomarra]

You're right. Still a decent price. But as usual on Ebay, with 5 minutes to go in the auction, all the bidders strike and the price goes through the roof! Maybe not. I'll keep my eye on that!

Thnaks for the heads up, Dave

Brian

:)

[Kevin Sypolt]

No wonder. No "DCC" in the title. You might be able to "steal" this one as long as no one else knows. (Shhh, we won't tell anyone) :) Luckily, I already have a MINT listening copy as well as the sealed "back up" copy...

[Jeff H.]

You never can tell how eBay bidding is going to go. I recently bought Elvis' "24 Karat Hits" for $25, because no one else bid on it. The next time I saw a copy of the same title sell the bidding had run up to $125!!! Insane! The DCC version of "McCartney" is the best version of that album available. I'd love to find a copy of "Ram" at a reasonable price. Anyone know where I might find one?

[Michael]

I ALWAYS get sniped on ebay, Now I bid my the exact amount I will spend once and don't bother bidding again hoping it's high enough to win.

[btomarra]

That's exactly what I do. Once I was bidding on a baseball card worth about $10 in Mint condition. I watched as the last minutes unfolded. It went for $40. I thought to myself....I hope you're happy you won, you just got ripped off!

I just set it for as much as I'm willing to pay. I bid once, and hope I win!


:)

[Michael]

It was amazing how a sniper can get in a bid in or about 2 seconds? I was blow away. I would be staring a the monitor and all of a sudden the price would jump up at the last 2 seconds. It would REALLY frustrate me then I said NO more and adapted my highest bid policy and I have been happy ever since. LET THEM SNIPE!

[Gary]

I just saw several copies of Red Rose Speedway for $55.00 Canadian. Sealed. In a local store (local means within easy commute of the city.... .

Sorry, nothing else in this neck of the woods.

[Metralla]

Just curious - do members think sniping is wrong?

eBay auctions (and other on-line auctions like AudioGon etc) are different to a conventional auction where the bidders are all in the one place (including representatives of phone bidders) and the auctioneer controls when the bidding stops.

I think the timing aspects of on-line auctions add a new twist to bidding.

I've been sniped a few times, but I've also won in the last second. I try to combine sniping and using the proxy bidding system to get the item at the best price. I have no idea if there is any sense to this technique and I'm interested in the strategies that other forum members adopt on eBay.

There seem to be arguments both ways. However, if folks here really think that sniping is anti-social I'd be prepared to use other tactics.

Regards,
Metralla

[Dave]

I just ran across an ebay auction where at the bottom it had an auto-snipe program that you could try for free for a few times, but of course they want you to pay for it after about six uses. You can set this sucker to bid for you up to 1 sec. before the end.

So in all reality there are the unfair advantages out there.

The ole gotta pay to play really apply's here.:(

[btomarra]

You'll notice that with 30 hours to go, the price is at $30. Wonder what it will be with 30 minutes to go/

Sometimes it stays reasonable and other times you get the Donald Fagen Nightfly scenario.

To add insult to injury, often times the descriptions are exagerated. I've bidded on a mint copy of a CD and have received it with lots of scratches.

Brian

;)

[Dave]

Brian,

Well I hope you left that seller with a nasty negative feedback.:(

I've purchased approx. 100 DCC/MFSL cd's from ebay and have only gotten a scratched one once. Under normal light you couldn't see them but under a 100w white bulb there they were tons of minute scratches.

You gotta check the sellers feedback (any negatives I'll check and see what the buyer is complaining about). Be sure to mail the seller and confirm their definition of "mint" and explain you're just severely picky. No response=no purchase.

Chances are if they're a large volume seller with more than 6 negatives, I'll avoid them as there are alot of very good sellers who mean what they say ie. Tom Port (Better Records), Jim DeBlois, and alot of the smaller sellers as well.;)

[joachim.ritter]

A lot of audiophile CDs I bought at eBay were
in (much) worse condition than described. And sometimes sellers are not willing (or not able)
to understand that their grading was not correct!

Well, it helps to buy sealed copies - if they are not re-sealed ...

Joachim

[Patrick M]

Originally posted by Metralla
Just curious - do members think sniping is wrong?

I always hated sniping, as a buyer and, sometimes, as a seller.

I still don't "like" it, but I do it, simply because I have no choice if I really want something.

I've watched a VG+ mono MMT slip out of hands with a few seconds left, I've placed the first and only bid on a CD with 6 days left, only to miss it with 10 seconds left when somebody pops up out of nowhere. As a seller, I feel sorry for people who bid on my stuff, only to get outbid by $0.25 in the last minute.

On a slow dialup connection, it's hard to guess when I need to place a bid in order to have a chance. Many times I've missed something because I waited a few seconds too long to bid. Other times, I've become distracted doing something else and then miss the auction by a few minutes. If I know I'm not going to be around when the auction is over, I know I'm screwed. Friday, I had to bid 2 hours before a CD went off auction. Sure enough, I was outbid - again - at the last minute.

It also defeats the purpose of having a 10 day auction when all the action is in the last minute.

It's stressful, annoying, and a pain in the ***. It's also asinine, because so often people avoid bidding all week to save a nickel, then you watch the item go through the roof at the end. What's the point?

I wish ebay would put in a provision that the auction had to be bid-free for a period of, say, five minutes before the auction ended. I don't think it will ever happen, though.

[MikeD]

Originally posted by Metralla
Just curious - do members think sniping is wrong?

Sniping is totally appropriate. NOT sniping is wrong. All these non-snipers are just running up the price. If you're not around then buy some sniping software. Non-snipers - now that oughta be outlawed.

BTW, I just sniped an item with 20 seconds left. Then someone sniped me with 10 seconds left. :D

[Kevin Sypolt]

On eBay, I feel sniping is just fine. If everyone bids at the same time, usually in the last twenty seconds, it is the MOST fair. It is like submitting a sealed bid. You know what the item is worth to you. The other person knows what the item is worth to them. In the end, the one who places a "higher" value on obtaining the item will win. That is what "bidding" is all about. No frenzy, just one bid, and you are done. No time to say, "Oh Yeah!" and come back with a higher bid. I would not use eBay without sniping. Of course you had better be willing to pay for your snipe! :)

[jligon]

While Ebay prices seem rediculous to me, I continue to look for those (increasingly elusive) good deals. I (amazingly) picked up a sealed DCC Pet Sounds about three months ago from some guy in Hawaii for $24.99. I was the only bidder! The auction ended and 3 or 4 am Central time and I assume no one else was looking at that time. I really want McCartney (first Lp I ever bought) but I can't see spending more than $30-$35 for it. I hope it will eventually resurface at some point (DCC???) but I may be mistaken.

[Patrick M]

Originally posted by jligon
I really want McCartney (first Lp I ever bought) but I can't see spending more than $30-$35 for it. I hope it will eventually resurface at some point (DCC???) but I may be mistaken.

If you just want a dupe of it, get in touch with me. I managed to snag one years ago for cheap and I'm happy to share the wealth.

[btomarra]

Dave,

I sure did leave the seller negative feedback. I do look at the feedback. Unfortunately the ones that I've been ripped off on had zero negative feedback!

One guy sent me a sealed MFSl of the Moody Blues - A Question of Balance. It came broken and cracked under the shrink wrap. The CD fortunately had a scuff below the playing surface.

Mostly, my bad experiences have come from bidding on Baseball cards. The scans are such that they seem to hide creases (bright scan, low contrast). The CDs that I have bid on haven't been as negative.

Thanks for your good suggestions, as always!!!

Brian

:)

[btomarra]

Dave,

Well, I won the bid on the McCartney DCC. I got it for $36.00. Not too shabby a price, I think!

Sorry for all that panic about them bumping up the bids on that one!

Thanks for the heads up!!!

:cool:


Brian