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Post by Matt Brown on May 23, 2008 19:17:22 GMT -5
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Post by lukewarmwater on May 24, 2008 7:04:53 GMT -5
Matt -- Ironically, I've been laboriously searching Craiglist for the past two evenings. I'd only gotten through the L cities when I saw your post. Dang! An XVIII would sure look good in my living room! Especially for that price! Luke
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Post by Matt Brown on May 24, 2008 12:44:48 GMT -5
We should set a date each year to "cry in our beers" over lost machines. National "that jerk got there first" day. 5/24 each year. Going out to buy the beer now.  Man, I HATE when I miss out on a good deal by MINUTES. Matt |
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Post by maroongem on May 24, 2008 13:27:40 GMT -5
Matt, I feel your pain! Last month I was 2 days late on acquiring the below pictured machine on NH Craig's list. It was only 35 mins. away and the price listed was $700.00. I believe it was a Columbia BG which is rather a scarce bird. The horn appears to be silk covered (prob. a H&S), if the the pix I copied from the listing page is any indication. There was also a box of cylinders that went with it and I wonder if there were any 20th Century cilinders in there? I now check Craig's List several times a day!!!!!! Bill   |
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Post by lukewarmwater on May 24, 2008 17:16:22 GMT -5
Thursday I saw a brand new listing for an "Edison Home Model E" on eBay with a BIN of $750. It looked like a Triumph in the gallery photo and when I clicked on it, sure enuf it was, missing the crank and no horn, but with an O reproducer. I hit the BIN button, it rolled over, and damitall . . . croakinfrog got it! I missed a mahogany spearpoint horn to Ed Broyles the same way a couple of weeks ago. If you go to the Oshkosh-Appleton craigslist site right now, there is an L-door XVI or VTLA (can't tell from the photos) for $100! Luke
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Post by edisonfan on Dec 8, 2008 6:10:02 GMT -5
Gentlemen, If you'll notice, Croakinfrog's stuff on eBay just sits there month after month because his prices are more than what some folks would be willing to spend (or can afford to). Instead of piecing out a phonograph part by part, then slapping an expensive BIN price on it, why doesn't he just sell the entire phonograph at a reasonable price? Therefore somebody out there (even on fixed incomes) could have a chance at one and have something to enjoy, too? From the impression I got of Croakingfrog from watching his auctions, he don't mind sitting on all that stuff from now until h*** freezes over. As far as Craigslist, I haven't bothered trying to buy anything off of there because somebody else usually gets it first. As Thomas Edison once said; "Everything comes to him who hustles while he waits."  |
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Post by lukewarmwater2 on Dec 8, 2008 8:53:38 GMT -5
While I don't love the idea of perfectly good machines being disassembled and sold for parts, I think Mark's dear prices reflect the general distastefulness of the concept. Have you priced killers-for-hire lately? LOL. Look at his transaction count! No shortage of patrons! An antique dealer friend of mine used to say (only half-jokingly), "God wouldn't have made them sheep if he didn't want us to shear them".
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Post by 3victrolas on Dec 8, 2008 12:10:27 GMT -5
Look at his transaction count! No shortage of patrons! quote] I'll admit I've bought a couple of items from him. |
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Post by maroongem on Dec 8, 2008 12:59:06 GMT -5
Mark sets up at the shows I attend (Wayne & Danbury) and usually has someting I need and at what I have always considered a fair price. If a common machine warrants too much $$$ in repairs, it is better to part it out in my opinion and recoup what you may have spent on it originally and perhaps even do better than if you sold it "as is."
Bill
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Post by Edison Restorer 64 on Jan 5, 2009 14:45:51 GMT -5
It must be nice to have tons ogf mulah I feel i am in the lower cat. of the poorest of the poor
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Post by 3victrolas on Jan 5, 2009 23:53:49 GMT -5
It must be nice to have tons ogf mulah I feel i am in the lower cat. of the poorest of the poor I don't think so. If you saw my collection of machines, you'd see most of them are what I like to call common as dirt. |
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Post by Aaron on Jan 6, 2009 21:37:08 GMT -5
Gentlemen, If you'll notice, Croakinfrog's stuff on eBay just sits there month after month because his prices are more than what some folks would be willing to spend (or can afford to). Instead of piecing out a phonograph part by part, then slapping an expensive BIN price on it, why doesn't he just sell the entire phonograph at a reasonable price? Therefore somebody out there (even on fixed incomes) could have a chance at one and have something to enjoy, too? From the impression I got of Croakingfrog from watching his auctions, he don't mind sitting on all that stuff from now until h*** freezes over. As far as Craigslist, I haven't bothered trying to buy anything off of there because somebody else usually gets it first. As Thomas Edison once said; "Everything comes to him who hustles while he waits." All in all i must say Mark is a very nice guy once you deal with him a few times.And like most other i too wish that he wouldn't parts out MOST of his machines.If you contact him about a machine though he will tell you what he has and sell it too you complete and he has almost any machine you wont and definitely whatever part you need.And from what i have heard he has a collection with some very rare things in it.But like i said he is very nice guy... And i am with all of you with being mad at people for getting the deals... Right before Christmas i was bidding on a mahogany Edison standard.It need A LOT of work but i really wanted it...!!!! it was going to be my Christmas present too...And don't you know that it went for just a bit more then i bid.Anyone here win it?know who did? it was sold by phonobozo. I STILL REALLY WISH I WON IT!!!!! Aaron |
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