skeith Posted December 9, 2004 Report Share Posted December 9, 2004 (edited) No kidding there is a guy standing on the sidewalk at 6th avenue and 22nd street in Manhattan selling these right now for $5.00 a piece out of a large cardboard box sitting on a fold up card table and he has a lot of titles. They are sealed copies! I did not buy one, but looked closely at them and they look real to me. I am not associated in any way with this deal. Edited December 9, 2004 by skeith Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bluesForBartok Posted December 9, 2004 Report Share Posted December 9, 2004 I can confirm this. I just saw the same guy myself. Some good titles there! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brad Posted December 9, 2004 Report Share Posted December 9, 2004 Did you guys get me any . Come on, man! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
7/4 Posted December 9, 2004 Report Share Posted December 9, 2004 Too bad I'm working from home today! One of my customers is a few blocks from there... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Son-of-a-Weizen Posted December 9, 2004 Report Share Posted December 9, 2004 Damn, and here I thought Chris A's 'Bessie' book sales were enough to keep him afloat. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Leeway Posted December 10, 2004 Report Share Posted December 10, 2004 He was last seen running towards Central Park with some Tactical Unit officers close behind Seriously, what are the chances of this stuff being legally obtained and legally sold? Also, as there is often talk on this board about artist's getting what they are owed from their recordings, do you think any of the $$ this guy gets is going back to the artists or their estates? Hell, I love a bargain too, but from experience, I know that stuff like this sold on the street is often stolen (usually working in conjunction with a shoplifting team or dishonest store employees). And there is always the choice (slim I admit) that you can get caught up in a stolen property bust, as the cops will surveill these vendors before making a bust. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chuck Nessa Posted December 10, 2004 Report Share Posted December 10, 2004 It's probably Universal's marketing director. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
garthsj Posted December 10, 2004 Report Share Posted December 10, 2004 At one point a giant French Hypermarket here in Houston (now closed!) was selling these for $4.98 .... I loaded up on them at the time. As I recall, the price in Europe at the time of the first edition, based upon the current value of the U.S. dollar was equivalent to about $8.00 ... One friend in New Zealand(!!!) sent me copies (the rare Chet Baker etc.) that he had purchased there for the equivalent of about $4.00! I guess that there is quite a lot of dumping going on ... I wonder what the size of the production run was? Garth. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
etherbored Posted December 11, 2004 Report Share Posted December 11, 2004 I guess that there is quite a lot of dumping going on ... I wonder what the size of the production run was? very, very large. i'm just back from europe (france/germany/austria/spain) and these titles are available everywhere at prices ranging from 4 - 7 euros. owning the box, i was curious if broken wing and other regarded titles from the first 75 were still available. seems as if they were... -e- Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bill Nelson Posted December 11, 2004 Report Share Posted December 11, 2004 Yeah, they're all over the streets at $5 each (even less in EU currency) but where 'Jazz in Paris' AIN'T is Dusty Groove (those bastards!). Of the 35 JIP titles they carry, Dusty ONLY HAS TWO presently in stock. Maybe those DG Chicago boys need to make a 'buying trip' to the sidewalks of NYC. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sidewinder Posted December 11, 2004 Report Share Posted December 11, 2004 Still a fair number of these in the UK shops at about £5 each. I see the Grapelli disks all the time. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
brownie Posted December 11, 2004 Report Share Posted December 11, 2004 Same here. But that Chet Baker 'Broken Wing' CD (volume 08 of the series) 'disappeared' couple of years ago and has not been seen around these part since... The new DeLuxe boxes are well displayed in the stores by now. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ejp626 Posted December 12, 2004 Report Share Posted December 12, 2004 Of the 35 JIP titles they carry, Dusty ONLY HAS TWO presently in stock. Maybe those DG Chicago boys need to make a 'buying trip' to the sidewalks of NYC. They do have one of the big 75 CD Jazz in Paris boxes in store, or at least they did a couple weeks ago. They never did get the follow-up box though. I did manage to track down Broken Wing, but not in a regular store ... and not on the streets of NYC either. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dmitry Posted December 13, 2004 Report Share Posted December 13, 2004 I drove by 6th and w22nd today. The dude is still there. He also has dvds. I asked the wife if we could stop [having just come out from the semi-annual ARC cd/lp sale on White Street], but she gave me that ray look, so we proceeded to the Met, as planned. Gilbert Stuart exhibition is not to be missed.. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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