Davis/Evans Mosaic LP box...

[DrJ]

OK I probably should have put this under the "eBay craziness" thread but just had to single it out:

Davis/Evans LP Mosaic set

I was going to bid and was willing to overpay just a little bit for this - since I have the CD set and could sell it to make up the difference - but HOLY COW - $500+???

I was about to put in my "measly" bid when I refreshed and saw the $500 figure and just about fainted (for one brief panicked moment, I thought I had put that in by mistake!!!).

In looking at some online auction result listings I've never seen it go for more than about $300.

Am I out to lunch or is this selling price way higher than usual?

Edited April 8, 2005 by DrJ

[sidewinder]

$300 is about right for a mint(ish) set. That's about what I paid. I have the CD set as well but just occasionally its nice to pull out the Mosaic Davis/Evans and luxuriate in all of that Q-LP sound. To me, this set is priceless.

I saw this particular sale a couple of days ago when it was around the $300. It looked to be heading up big time even then. There was also a Nat Cole CD box that was already around $550.

I can never work out the pricing with Mosaics. It's like a yo-yo...

[clandy44]

All it takes is one determined buyer to alter the price landscape in an auction. I know you have that new table and are hungering for some new quality vinyl, but do what we all do-wait for prices to revert to the mean. I've been a buyer of lps lately, but try hard to pick my spots and not to pay up too much (right, sure, LOL). I too have just bought a new (well, 6 months old) table so I'm on the same slippery slope of insanity, straining ever so hard to lift up the sonic quality of my world.

[DrJ]

Yeah clandy, I know what you mean - but no worries, I'm a pretty disciplined buyer. Bidding that high was never remotely a possibility. In fact, the minute I saw that first $500 bid come in, my hand FLEW as far from the "enter" key as possible, for fear the seizure it induced might inadvertently lead to a bid!

Seriously, I am very patient with eBay buying. My observation is as you say - if you wait you'll eventually almost always get a decent price even on fairly rare/obscure stuff.

On that note, I was really fortunate to get a copy of the Plugged Nickel Mosaic Q LP set for a fair price not long ago, and I have to say that one absolutely torches the CD set - which while detailed and good sounding has an unpleasant harshness to the high end on prolonged listening. Not so for the LPs. Heaven.

A Davis/Evans LP box WILL eventually be mine - but not for $500!!!