kuisis Posted September 17, 2004 Report Posted September 17, 2004 I have a friend with about thirty mosaic sets. He is offering them to me before anyone else. We are just trying to work out a fair price. Does anyone know of a guide to the value or rarity of these sets. Any help would be appreciated. I bought the Grant Green Blue Note for forty bucks the Thelonius Monk Black Lion for twenty-five. They were cds. Quote
doubleM Posted September 17, 2004 Report Posted September 17, 2004 I'd stick with the current pricing points and you'll do just fine!!! Quote
wolff Posted September 17, 2004 Report Posted September 17, 2004 Why do want 30 Mosaic sets? They suck. Have your friend contact me and I'll see if I can find some fool to take them. Quote
BFrank Posted September 17, 2004 Report Posted September 17, 2004 If you list them, someone will surely be able to price them out for you. Quote
Jazzmoose Posted September 17, 2004 Report Posted September 17, 2004 At those prices, your grammar is incorrect. Instead say "I had a friend..." Quote
vibes Posted September 17, 2004 Report Posted September 17, 2004 I can't believe you just spent $65 on those sets. They're worthless. Quote
David Ayers Posted September 17, 2004 Report Posted September 17, 2004 (edited) Don't kid this guy! Kuisis, The price of new sets is generally $16, sometimes $17 per CD. The price of OOP sets on ebay is almost always higher, sometimes very high indeed. A few sets are very much in demand (Nat King Cole, Basie, Andrew Hill) but I doubt whther your friend would ask you for fancy collector's prices. Edited September 17, 2004 by David Ayers Quote
Tony Pusey Posted September 17, 2004 Report Posted September 17, 2004 I recently won several out of print sets in an English auction, I paid 20 pounds a cd, which was the reserve price. Several sets remained unsold. Does that help? Quote
Rooster_Ties Posted September 17, 2004 Report Posted September 17, 2004 Give your friend $25/CD. Depending on the sets, I'd go more like $21 or $22 per CD. (Something to be said for getting a volume discount, if you're buying a whole hell of a bunch of sets -- all at one time.) But, again, that's depending on what sets we're talking about, clearly. (And so then maybe $25 is better, guessing that there's some older sets we're talking about here.) (I almost said $20 at first, but forgot that Mosaic bumped their prices up to $16 a year or two ago, hence my $21 or $22 statement up above.) Quote
RDK Posted September 17, 2004 Report Posted September 17, 2004 It depends on whether you want to give him a fair price or if he's willing to give you a bargain. For oop sets, $10/disc would be a steal, $15/disc would be a bargain. It doesn't begin to get fair until around $20+/disc. On the open market (Ebay, for example), some of these sets command $40 or more/disc. Quote
kuisis Posted September 18, 2004 Author Report Posted September 18, 2004 I found this forum through the Klipsch website and I like the humor of the responses! I also like the information on the values. Here are the ones he has, I am fairly new to the jazz genre and so far am liking a bunch of the hard bop(?) on blue note and some dixieland. The seller is a close friend of mine, older, who turned me on to jazz so I don't want to be unfair to him. If any of you have suggestions about the following ones I'd appreciate it. 102 Gerry Morgan 109 Hall/Johnson/De Paris/ Dickenson 110 Sidney Bechet 120 Paul Desmond 122 Chet Baker 136 Stan Kenton 144 Buck Clayton 152 Eddie Condon 157 George Shearling 166 Curtis Fuller 168 Jack Teagarden 172 Thad Jones 175 Chico Hamilton 176 Jimmie Guiffre 185 Kenton Presents 190 Django Reinhardt 198 Gerald WIlson 200 Johnny Hodges 206 Condon Mob 221 Gerry Mulligan I don't want to go crazy, but I think I could buy these at a rate of one or two per month. I really like the first two and have heard good things about mosaic in general. Quote
BFrank Posted September 19, 2004 Report Posted September 19, 2004 (edited) Some of those are still in print, so you could check the Mosaic website and make him an offer based on what you could get it for new. Thad Jones and Curtis Fuller are on the hard bop side, if you want to get those. They both went OOP about a year and a half ago and are 3CD sets (orig price $48). They typically sell on ebay for between $70-$100. [update] - There's a Thad Jones on ebay now that's up to $150, but I think that's an aberration. Edited September 19, 2004 by BFrank Quote
Brad Posted September 19, 2004 Report Posted September 19, 2004 The ones above 200 are still in print so it shouldn't be more than what you can get from Mosaic. The others are going to be more expensive for sure. For example the Buck Clayton has gone for around $250 so that's $40 a cd. I'd say for the Desmond, that's probably going to be in that area. It's hard to give a real good answer because the market (ebay) goes up and down. Checking ebay and their completed auctions may be helpful. BTW, do you know about the Mosaic web site. It's mosaicrecords.com Quote
kuisis Posted September 23, 2004 Author Report Posted September 23, 2004 I wanted to thank everyone who replied to my thread. I worked out a deal to buy them all. If I don't like them, but I doubt I will, I will put them up for sale here first. Quote
Free For All Posted September 23, 2004 Report Posted September 23, 2004 I'm quite sure you won't enjoy them at all. We'll be waiting. Dibs on the Baker and Desmond. Quote
Tony Pusey Posted September 23, 2004 Report Posted September 23, 2004 Free For All-The Baker is available from Crazy Jazz in England. See my post on oop Mosaic. Quote
BERIGAN Posted September 25, 2004 Report Posted September 25, 2004 Free For All-The Baker is available from Crazy Jazz in England. See my post on oop Mosaic. I couldn't find that web site, at least as you had it listed on the other thread.... Quote
Tony Pusey Posted September 25, 2004 Report Posted September 25, 2004 (edited) Berigan, I will try again http://www.crazyjazz.co.uk You willprobably have to e-mail them since these sets are no longer listed. Good luck! Edited September 25, 2004 by Tony Pusey Quote
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