What's your spending limit for a single CD?

[Chalupa]

I bought Noah Howard's, "Black Ark" last January for $80 on Ebay. I found out a week later that it was being re-issued so I flipped it w/ a "buy it now" of $125. That was a nice little profit.

I just checked my email and i had the amounts wrong. I actually did better - bought it for $105 and sold it for $225. Ka-ching. :rsmile:

[AndrewHill]

Doesn't anyone consider the difference between Blue Note, Sony, etc and the guys like Ermite, Okka and the rest?

Your money might make a difference.

Someone unloaded 5 Erimite titles at a local Half Price books once. I bought them all for $6 bucks a pop, along with snagging a William Parker Erimite in the $1 bin. Not to mention that there was also Brotzmann Okka (Stonewater) there later on for $6 sealed. Of course, I bought that one too. When I compare those prices at Half Price to the BN's and Columbia's they carry, it turns out that used copies of those are also about $6.

[Chuck Nessa]

Great.

[clifford_thornton]

Doesn't anyone consider the difference between Blue Note, Sony, etc and the guys like Ermite, Okka and the rest?

Your money might make a difference.

Still, single Okka and Eremite discs are around $20 - not expensive at all!

Where the heck are you buying 'em? Or are you getting them for free?

Okka and I sell their discs for $13 and a check of the Eremite site seems they are well below $20.

Some for free, some bought, so you are right, my law of averages is kinda skewed!

[jlhoots]

If there's a Venus CD I want, I'll buy it from Hiroshi for approx. $25 US.

[clifford_thornton]

Doesn't anyone consider the difference between Blue Note, Sony, etc and the guys like Ermite, Okka and the rest?

Your money might make a difference.

Someone unloaded 5 Erimite titles at a local Half Price books once. I bought them all for $6 bucks a pop, along with snagging a William Parker Erimite in the $1 bin. Not to mention that there was also Brotzmann Okka (Stonewater) there later on for $6 sealed. Of course, I bought that one too. When I compare those prices at Half Price to the BN's and Columbia's they carry, it turns out that used copies of those are also about $6.

I have no problem buying used CDs if they are out of print or otherwise horribly hard-to-obtain.

That said, in the age of the internet and small labels that could use a dime, Chuck's point should be taken. Doesn't take long to figure why Eremite may not have put out a new release in some time: $$$ ...

[EKE BBB]

I paid about $35.00 plus shipping for a Japanese CD edition of a Tete Montoliu disc (no domestic edition at that time)... to discover that it was reissued a few months later, and that I would have been able to get it for $14.00.

[Tom Storer]

I don't have a price limit. It all depends on how much I want the record. I think I've gone as high as $40.

Here in France, if I had a $20 limit I'd be unable to buy anything except second-hand or special promotions.

[LAL]

$25 - $30 for an OOP item by a small and/or defunct label. $18 for a new disc, maybe a couple more $ if the disc is a 2-for-1.

[Brownian Motion]

I spent 60.00 for Larry Coryell's Le Sacre du Printemps but that was after a year's search for a less expensive copy--in fact 60.00 was the "less expensive" copy. I've sold a few dozen CDs for 30 to 50 bucks a pop, mostly early titles on the Classics label.