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It appears like history repeated itself vis-a-vis the Farmer-Golson set ---- ack. I have good oops Mosaics to trade for anyone with an extra or one they are looking to get rid of.

Hans -- Isn't all this stuff on the Ellington Complete RCA box?

Sorry I'm a day late and a dollar short to comb through 500 pages of this Hysterical Mouse thread, but which Clusone 3 disk did you pick up? I have Soft Light and Sweet Music, and like that one quite a bit. I should add that I'm not familiar with the other Clusone titles-is it the Rara Avis one? Yup, "Rara Avis" (title mentioned in the post you quoted, but I didn't bring together titles and artists...). The other one, "An Hour With" is still around, too, but "Rara Avis" had been listed as OOP for years and now suddenly it isn't - probably they found another box of it somewhere... I only with the first McPhee solo ("As Serious as Your Life", hatO 514) would turn up again, too! Also Shipp's "Multiplicator Table" I missed, but at least I got a CDR of it... I also miss Gregorio's "Ellipsis" and Mat Maneri's "Acceptance" but I'm less sure I need these. I can hook you up with a bonafide Multiplication Table -- PM me when you have a moment. Dan

There is a MR set on eBay with no bids yet and less than an hour to go with a starting bid of $79 with no reserve. I know that several people on the board have expressed an interest so I thought I'd give a heads up to those who are interested. http://cgi.ebay.com/THE-COMPLETE-MERCURY-M...1QQcmdZViewItem Good luck!

Marco is a fine drummer! I heard him with Liebman's quartet a few years ago.. Randy, I'll pass along your kind words, Randy -- he really is a monster; he plays in numerous bands in the central PA area (Scranton/Wilkes Barre) area including a rock band called Mere Mortals. He is also on the teaching faculty at PSU. This version of Liebman's quartet has been a work in progress for a few years now and they seem to be more empathic each time I hear them.

Vic plays in Dave Liebman's current working quartet with my buddy Marko (Marcinko) who currently occupies the drum chair along with Tony Marino on bass. For any of you who live in the NYC/NJ/central PA area and who haven't had the opportunity to hear this band, by all means track them down -- they are currently performing in the area but I don't know exactly where they are right now. I suspect Dave has the dates posted on his website.

Still waiting to hear from Kurt regarding my last email to them in which I told them that I know that others have been told that their transaction will go through -- seems promising though. I love this "we're losing THOUSANDS of dollars" business that they complain about -- likje anyone is gonna buy this set for the $200 something dollars they'll be selling it for........

Brad, Got my eBay reply today as well (from "Lachlan" -- what's with these interesting names?) -- reads the same as yours. Sounds like they don't have a leg to stand on but...... Anything else I can do to turn up the heat??

Well, I fired the first salvo -- I have this sick sense of justice when it comes to screwing the little guys (read: us) regardless of what's at stake when I feel I've been wronged. It will be interesting to see what happens. eBay loves to market itself as this community of fairness and caring. Let's see if they'll stand up for us. Report problems with other eBay members > Problems with sellers > The problem you're having with your seller isn't listed Member or Item being reported: 4703199739 Message: Hi, I won the above item at auction less than a week ago. I received an invoice from the seller and paid for the item several days later. Yesterday, I received an email from the seller saying: Due to an internal error, your recently purchased box set of BILL EVANS, Complete On Verve 18-CD Box NEW Jazz Piano was listed with an incorrect Buy-It-Now price. Your order has been canceled and a refund is currently processing for your payment. We apologize for this error, and will have this item for sale again in our store shortly at the appropriate pricing. Thank you for your understanding regarding this matter. Please include the original message in all replies. Thank you for contacting us. Kurt Customer Support universalmusicstore@umusic.com Universal Music Store I have tried twice to contact them regarding this, telling them that this is no way to do business. I have received only form responses. They sold at least 8-10 sets (and perhaps more) at this price and, as I know some of the other auction winners as fellow jazz lovers, at least one or two winners received their merchandise at the agreed upon price. Therefore, if it was a mistake, it didn't seem to stop them from listing numerous sets over the past 2 weeks. I am merely requesting that they be subject to the same binding contract I as the buyer assumed when I purchased the item. If a mistake was made on their part, it is their right to correct it and offer future items at the corrected price. However, for those of us who won the item at auction fairly and submitted to the explicit contract eBay includes with each and every auction, the seller should be required to provide the item to those winners at the agreed price. Thanks for your attention, Daniel Isaac P.S. I don't have my hopes up but I guess we'll see. And Kevin, let me second Brad's statement regarding bringing this to their attention -- they went on like this for 2 weeks selling these sets at $100 a pop and my feeling was, as yours, that they we're just trying to get rid of them. Given their utter ignorance and form letter responses, it seems as though they'd be too asleep at the wheel for your email to have been their wake-up call!!

I think it might be most prudent to get those who got shafted together and write a joint email to eBay's customer service department -- I bet we'd have a much better chance this way. UMG has a feedback rating of 15000+ ;; you think it would hurt them a bit if eBay suspended their selling privileges?? I do. Rolf, Brad and others: thoughts?

The beat goes on -- the complete correspondence......... Dear Kurt, This is completely ridiculous -- did you even read my previous email? I am going to give you and your people at UMG another opportunity to respond to me in a manner that makes it clear that my grievance is being heard and attended to. I plan on contacting eBay and making sure that the others who were treated in this fashion regarding this item do so as well. UMG does a tremendous amount of eBay business and I am sure that they would prefer not to have their reputation sullied by behavior such as this. Daniel Isaac -------------- Original message -------------- All Bill Evans box sets have been removed from the store due to an incorrect listed Buy-It-Now price. This is being corrected within our system and as soon as it is corrected the item will be re-listed at the correct pricing. As soon as this error in all listings for this item was identified we immediately canceled all auctions and began the refund process. We appreciate your understanding regarding this matter. Please include the original message in all replies. Thank you for contacting us. Kurt Customer Support universalmusicstore@umusic.com Universal Music Store -----Original Message----- From: disaac68@comcast.net [mailto:disaac68@comcast.net] Sent: Friday, February 25, 2005 5:33 PM To: UMG Auction Customer Support Truition Subject: Re: Error in listing - order canceled To whom it may concern, This is not the appropriate way to do business. I bid on this item on eBay -- my bid was a binding contract to purchase the item at the agreed upon price. I even PAID for this item and had my receipt go through and now, DAYS LATER, you are trying to renege on what, to me, is a clear and binding contract. Please do the right thing and process my order. I should not be made to pay for a mistake that was clearly beyond my control. Thanks in advance, Daniel Isaac -------------- Original message -------------- Due to an internal error, your recently purchased box set of BILL EVANS, Complete On Verve 18-CD Box NEW Jazz Piano was listed with an incorrect Buy-It-Now price. Your order has been canceled and a refund is currently processing for your payment. We apologize for this error, and will have this item for sale again in our store shortly at the appropriate pricing. Thank you for your understanding regarding this matter. Please include the original message in all replies. Thank you for contacting us. Kurt Customer Support universalmusicstore@umusic.com Universal Music Store SentMail: Email 1 of 72

Has anyone received one of these? Due to an internal error, your recently purchased box set of BILL EVANS, Complete On Verve 18-CD Box NEW Jazz Piano was listed with an incorrect Buy-It-Now price. Your order has been canceled and a refund is currently processing for your payment. We apologize for this error, and will have this item for sale again in our store shortly at the appropriate pricing. Thank you for your understanding regarding this matter. Please include the original message in all replies. Thank you for contacting us. Kurt Customer Support universalmusicstore@umusic.com Universal Music Store Btw, I replied that my bid was a binding contract to purchase the item for the agreed upon price and my payment was even accepted days ago and NOW you're going to try this?? Uh-uh. Not in those words, of course.