Blue Notes--complete Rainbow and Paper Bag Sets

[kh1958]

I noticed that the Jazz Record Center is selling complete sets of the rainbow series (39 LPs, starting bid $825) and those brown twofers (16 sets, starting bid $300)--No takers yet:

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewI...p;rd=1&rd=1

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewI...p;rd=1&rd=1

[sidewinder]

Certainly would be ebay madness for those 39 single LPs at over $800 :- $20+ per LP is very high. You can usually pick most of them up for $10 to $15 each.

I'll bet they're in really good condition though, if the seller is the Jazz Record Center.

One for the Blue Note vinyl 'completist', perhaps?

Edited July 23, 2007 by sidewinder

[Eric]

Certainly would be ebay madness for those 39 single LPs at over $800 :- $20+ per LP is very high. You can usually pick most of them up for $10 to $15 each.

I'll bet they're in really good condition though, if the seller is the Jazz Record Center.

One for the Blue Note vinyl 'completist', perhaps?

Agree on the $20 being high. A couple of these sometimes go higher (the Hutchersons, Mother Ship), but $10 to $15 is about right for most of them.

Over the past year I have "filled in" my colection of Rainbows - now only missing one or two. I bet I had more fun tracking them down than the winner of this auction will!

[mikeweil]

I had about half of the Rainbows and sold them all - the CD masterings are much better!

[clifford_thornton]

This is probably from the same stock that Academy raided earlier this year. Many sealed jazz titles from the 1970s and 1980s. Cool stuff.

[kh1958]

Both lots sold to the same bidder, with zero feedback. There was only one bidder.

[clifford_thornton]

And yet nobody bought the sealed Unit Core of Indent?

[tjluke68]

I wouldn't doubt that the Booker Ervin is mine that I sold to them about 2 yrs ago...

[MartyJazz]

Both lots sold to the same bidder, with zero feedback. There was only one bidder.

And this bidder will probably hold on to the sets for at least a couple of years or so and then auction them off for at least twice the price. If not, i.e., if he's actually a newbie collector, then $1,125 is not a lot of money to get all of those LPs at once and thus save mucho time and incidental costs, e.g., traveling to record stores, tracking down all of these sides.

[sidewinder]

And this bidder will probably hold on to the sets for at least a couple of years or so and then auction them off for at least twice the price. If not, i.e., if he's actually a newbie collector, then $1,125 is not a lot of money to get all of those LPs at once and thus save mucho time and incidental costs, e.g., traveling to record stores, tracking down all of these sides.

With some of those OOP Fantasy CDs going for $80-100 each maybe this is good value?

What a daft world we live in.