Today's disgusting eBay story: I'd had a very rare piece of illustration art up twice - and the second time I lowered the price and put a best offer on it with an accept any offer over the lowest I was willing to go, which was the usual twenty percent under what I was asking. I got an e-mail from a guy - very interested, asking questions, all of which I'd answered. He tells me he wants to make an offer. Great. Auction closes. He e-mails and says he really wants to make an offer but he has to consult with the wife and can I please relist it. I don't really want to at this point, but I do - for three days. Meantime, I get another e-mail from someone else asking questions, which I answer - nothing from him again. Auction is one hour from finishing this morning. First guy finally makes his offer, which is literally 80% less than I'm asking. I'm surprised he didn't just ask me to give it to him. I countered with my lowest price which was what I had on the Best Offer as well as asking him if he was really serious making an offer like that. Needless to say, he strung me along for two weeks and never upped his stupid offer and the auction closed and I am never relisting it again. I'm also somewhat convinced he was a dealer or gallery and had I sold it to him I guarantee you he would have been asking triple what I was actually asking for it. I've had it. I really though he was going to make me a reasonable offer and it would have certainly made life easier for the next few months. But nooooo.
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Quote from: bk on October 14, 2018, 02:56:16 PMToday's disgusting eBay story: I'd had a very rare piece of illustration art up twice - and the second time I lowered the price and put a best offer on it with an accept any offer over the lowest I was willing to go, which was the usual twenty percent under what I was asking. I got an e-mail from a guy - very interested, asking questions, all of which I'd answered. He tells me he wants to make an offer. Great. Auction closes. He e-mails and says he really wants to make an offer but he has to consult with the wife and can I please relist it. I don't really want to at this point, but I do - for three days. Meantime, I get another e-mail from someone else asking questions, which I answer - nothing from him again. Auction is one hour from finishing this morning. First guy finally makes his offer, which is literally 80% less than I'm asking. I'm surprised he didn't just ask me to give it to him. I countered with my lowest price which was what I had on the Best Offer as well as asking him if he was really serious making an offer like that. Needless to say, he strung me along for two weeks and never upped his stupid offer and the auction closed and I am never relisting it again. I'm also somewhat convinced he was a dealer or gallery and had I sold it to him I guarantee you he would have been asking triple what I was actually asking for it. I've had it. I really though he was going to make me a reasonable offer and it would have certainly made life easier for the next few months. But nooooo.That's crap! Is there a local auction house that you could bring it to (if you'd still actually like to sell it)? Or some store where it can be sold on consignment? On Antiques Roadshow, they always say that the retail value is higher than the auction value, and insurance value is higher than retail.
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DR TCB are you on stage as the narrator or offstage reading?
Here's a Sunday kind of question for the likes of DR Elmore. It's not of earthshaking importance, but...This PC score, as far as I know, is what's still sent out. Is it likely the same handwritten copy -- except for the added orchestral cues, and the note about them on the title page (click to enlarge) -- that I would have first seen in the early 1960s? I just wondered because I'm seeing this copy for the first time in years. I've only had my published score to look at, which btw doesn't include "Ballad of Dependency".
All of them favorable!
