Has the bottom fallen out of the Mosaic market?

[king ubu]

are you the same guy?

 Well, it's been such a long time, who can tell? But, mostly, probably...Just as much a pain in the neck damn intellectual as ever.

must be the same guy then - heita!

[Simon Weil]

are you the same guy?

 Well, it's been such a long time, who can tell? But, mostly, probably...Just as much a pain in the neck damn intellectual as ever.

must be the same guy then - heita!

Thanks, Ubu. I even like South African music.

[AllenLowe]

I'm a much different guy than I was before.

[king ubu]

'course you are, so are we. same same but different.

[mikeweil]

Always changing ... good to see my namesake back! 

[JSngry]

Y'all seen my hat?

[Simon Weil]

Thanks, Mike.

Jim...???

 

http://www.scottishbooktrust.com/learning/teachers-librarians/schools-events-programme/jon-klassen-have-you-seen-my-hat

[Edit +6hrs] Actually, I finally worked out what you were talking about. Took me a while, FWIW.

 

Edited September 6, 2015 by Simon Weil

[Dmitry]

Was just perusing eBay for the prices on the Chaloff set, and I think it went down by much since I looked last , 5 or so years ago.

http://www.ebay.com/sch/i.html?_from=R40&_sacat=0&_nkw=chaloff+mosaic&LH_Complete=1&LH_Sold=1&rt=nc

[ArtSalt]

I am personally looking forward to the day the Nat King Cole set reduces in value and becomes affordable!

[Dmitry]

58 minutes ago, ArtSalt said:

I am personally looking forward to the day the Nat King Cole set reduces in value and becomes affordable!

 

I think it's selling for 1/3 of what it used to fetch 10 years ago.

http://www.ebay.com/sch/Music/11233/i.html?_from=R40&LH_Complete=1&LH_Sold=1&_nkw=cole+mosaic

[sidewinder]

Maybe there is a correlation between the current price of OOP Mosaics and the value against major currencies of the $US?   For us Europeans they have remained fairly steady in most cases. An indication of just how clapped out the US dollar used to be !

Edited May 9, 2017 by sidewinder

[Dmitry]

1 hour ago, sidewinder said:

Maybe there is a correlation between the current price of OOP Mosaics and the value against major currencies of the $US?   For us Europeans they have remained fairly steady in most cases. An indication of just how clapped out the US dollar used to be !

I think it's mostly because Mosaic customers are older and tend to die fairly often, so the used sets are hitting the market pretty regularly now. If anything, I think the prices will drop some more.

I'm just hoping the Chinese will start copying the Japanese, and become the next jazz-crazed nation.

[sidewinder]

Yeah - I think you might be right there. Lots of estate sales. The hipster/snowflake lot don't seem interested in them though, too busy buying original Blue Notes !

Edited May 9, 2017 by sidewinder

[ArtSalt]

1 hour ago, Dmitry said:

I think it's mostly because Mosaic customers are older and tend to die fairly often, so the used sets are hitting the market pretty regularly now. If anything, I think the prices will drop some more.

I'm just hoping the Chinese will start copying the Japanese, and become the next jazz-crazed nation.

Indeed, if the Chinese get into jazz on the scale of Japan we're back in business baby!

[Brad]

What seems to be happening is what's happened to other hobbies: no kids!  I don't mean that there aren't kids playing jazz but that there are no kids collecting jazz or interested in jazz (or so it seems) not to mention that it's us oldsters who still buy cds, which are slowly disappearing. 

Edited May 10, 2017 by Brad

[Scott Dolan]

CDs?! Hell, kids don't even buy downloads anymore!

 

[Tjazz]

10 hours ago, Dmitry said:

I think it's mostly because Mosaic customers are older and tend to die fairly often, so the used sets are hitting the market pretty regularly now. If anything, I think the prices will drop some more.

I'm just hoping the Chinese will start copying the Japanese, and become the next jazz-crazed nation.

But the Chinese tend to just copy the CDs.  Not exactly quality products.

9 hours ago, Scott Dolan said:

CDs?! Hell, kids don't even buy downloads anymore!

 

They have to spend money on the latest cellphone.

I like to buy the Maynard Ferguson 10-CD box set for about $100.

[David Ayers]

11 hours ago, Scott Dolan said:

CDs?! Hell, kids don't even buy downloads anymore!

 

 

I almost never have done, and I'm no kid. That's one I'm glad I skipped. I was about to make a joke about confederate dollars but I suspect they are quite valuable. Compared to downloads. 

[Scott Dolan]

I only buy downloads these days, unless it is a box set. 

I've never gotten into streaming. 

[Dmitry]

8 hours ago, David Ayers said:

 

I almost never have done, and I'm no kid. That's one I'm glad I skipped. I was about to make a joke about confederate dollars but I suspect they are quite valuable. Compared to downloads. 

I had, or still have an "original fake" CSA $20 bill [meaning it was counterfit during the bellum years], so I asked a collector about the value of CS currency. Some examples are valuable, most are not, according to that collector. What's your joke?

Edited May 10, 2017 by Dmitry

[sidewinder]

Not to forget also that the CD mastering technology has improved quite a bit since those earlier sets came out - although they still sound pretty good to my ears. Plus you are paying for 20-30 years of condition depreciation, in many cases.

Edited May 10, 2017 by sidewinder

[Ken Dryden]

I don't think most customers bought them with resale value in mind, I think they bought them because they treasured the music and printed content. I thought about selling my Lightnin' Hopkins/Otis Spann once after it became OOP but thought better of it. The only Mosaic I've ever sold was the single disc sampler, a gift from my mom. I already had all of the music on it.

[paul secor]

I may have sold a Mosaic - can't remember - but I always bought them because I wanted to hear the music, not as an investment.

[hbbfam]

1 hour ago, paul secor said:

I may have sold a Mosaic - can't remember - but I always bought them because I wanted to hear the music, not as an investment.

Exactly.  I would prefer my kids discovered jazz and appreciated the trove I have acquired, rather than sell.  but if they do they are alerted to sell on this site or Hoffman. 

[Ed S]

4 hours ago, hbbfam said:

Exactly.  I would prefer my kids discovered jazz and appreciated the trove I have acquired, rather than sell.  but if they do they are alerted to sell on this site or Hoffman. 

Hoping not to die too soon, but at age 60, you never know.....  

 

My will has a provision to let my sons pick my Mosaic sets in a "snake" format.  I hope they will keep and enjoy them but realize they will more than likely be put up for sale.  I don't care what they may be worth, I just know that I enjoyed the hell out of them!  Hope they will too.