Weird crazy-high price. Why?

[Dmitry]

https://www.ebay.com/itm/6-CD-Lot-Harry-Belafonte-Jelly-Roll-Morton-John-Coltrane-/333752999345?hash=item4db53a9db1%3Ag%3A2VMAAOSw7%7ERfhJch&nma=true&si=lxmqkl8ruRwFu1%252Bw8CmQ9jA06iM%253D&orig_cvip=true&nordt=true&rt=nc&_trksid=p2047675.l2557

Scratching my head here. Which one is the rare one here, Trane?

[Dan Gould]

If I had to guess it's gotta be the rarity of the "Manhattan Records" credit on the back of Blue Train.

That early digital transfer was da bomb.

Right?

[HutchFan]

I don't get it either. 

If I had to guess, I think it might have something to do with the fact that those RCA Harry Belafonte recordings are highly prized in some audiophile circles.  I'm wondering if that's what drove up the price.  Maybe they're rarities.

It also looks like the ebay dealer caters to audiophiles.  They're called "High-End Audio Auctions."

Just speculation on my part though.

 

[Kevin Bresnahan]

There's a sucker born every minute. That "Blue Train" CD is not hard to find.

[Dmitry]

This is the Steve Hoffman Forum area of interest...my guess.

[felser]

9 minutes ago, Dmitry said:

This is the Steve Hoffman Forum area of interest...my guess.

The Hoffman Forum - where every issue of every recording ever made is a rare and precious treasure.   BTW, the ebay listing is gone.

[medjuck]

I think it's because Roy Eldridge and Ben Webster are on a couple of cuts on  Belafonte Sings the Blues.  (If I knew how to add emojis I'd add one here.) 

[Dan Gould]

54 minutes ago, bresna said:

There's a sucker born every minute. That "Blue Train" CD is not hard to find.

Who knew CDs can be "Hot Stampers" too?

 

[Kevin Bresnahan]

It looks like collectors have driven the price up on those 3 Belafonte discs:

https://www.discogs.com/Harry-Belafonte-Belafonte-Returns-To-Carnegie-Hall/release/5988810 asking price $100.

https://www.discogs.com/Harry-Belafonte-Belafonte-At-Carnegie-Hall-The-Complete-Concert/release/8819899 asking price $400

https://www.discogs.com/Harry-Belafonte-Belafonte-Sings-The-Blues/release/9910565 none available

The Morton & Coltrane discs are throw ins. Why? Only the seller knows.

[Hot Ptah]

Pricing on ebay has no logic. Sellers will post any high price without any logical or factual basis. 

The ridicule of the Steve Hoffman Forum is inaccurate. There are a great many low priced jazz LPs and CDs for sale on Steve Hoffman right now. I often buy jazz CDs for $2 or $3 on Steve Hoffman. 

6 hours ago, felser said:

The Hoffman Forum - where every issue of every recording ever made is a rare and precious treasure.   BTW, the ebay listing is gone.

Not true. The Hoffman Forum has a great many jazz CDs for sale from $2 to $5. I buy there often. 

6 hours ago, Dmitry said:

This is the Steve Hoffman Forum area of interest...my guess.

Not true. There is no interest in these albums on Steve Hoffman. There are hundreds of jazz CDs for sale from $2 to $5 on Steve Hoffman right now. I often get great bargains there. Any stereotypical thoughts about the Steve Hoffman Forum are no longer true.

[medjuck]

8 hours ago, bresna said:

 

https://www.discogs.com/Harry-Belafonte-Belafonte-Sings-The-Blues/release/9910565 none available

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It's because of Ben Webster completists. (OK I'll shut up now. -- But one last  thing : it's not listed in the 300 page "Ben a Discography by Langhorn & Sjogren" ) 

[Ed S]

On 11/18/2020 at 11:17 AM, bresna said:

There's a sucker born every minute. That "Blue Train" CD is not hard to find.

 

Just checked my copy.  It's the Manhattan Records one.  I bought it back in the day.  Actually - I have never replaced any of the Blue Notes I bought back in the early days of CDs

[Dmitry]

Speaking of the Steve Hoffman Forum, I received a message from the forum, telling me that it was hacked and to get a better password. Now I can't log into my account there. Tried contacting the admin, but keep getting the message A server error occurred. Please try again later.

Anyone having issues there? Forum seems to be working, just not for me.

[jazzbo]

I had no issue getting there. . . got the same message from Steve's account itself, but had no problem accessing. Word on the forum is that Steve's account seems to have been hacked, but no further oddness appears.

[Dmitry]

After I received the message from Steve, or whoever hacked his account, I logged into my panel there, read the message and decided to change the password, just to be on the safe side. Now my password doesn’t work, I can’t log back in. Weird stuff. I’ll try again later.

[jazzbo]

My take on that was that the hacker wanted us to change our passwords, perhaps allowing him to see our incoming and outgoing passwords. I just left things alone. So far the board is acting as usual.

[Dmitry]

On 11/21/2020 at 9:48 AM, Ed Swinnich said:

 

Just checked my copy.  It's the Manhattan Records one.  I bought it back in the day.  Actually - I have never replaced any of the Blue Notes I bought back in the early days of CDs

Me too, Ed. I still have some old BN CDs. I even saved a long cardboard box from the 1987 Manhattan Records release of Freddie Hubbard's BLUE SPIRITS, which I bought in a record store on the outskirts of Staten Island, if memory serves my well, long after they'd long discontinued marketing CDs in those longboxes. 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Longbox

[sidewinder]

I also bought that ‘Blue Spirits’ with the long box, in 1989 - but didn’t keep the box. One of my very first BN CDs, still have it.

Edited December 20, 2020 by sidewinder