The Velvet Forum

wow! looks like its gone to someone called 'mechadaddy' for $155,401.00.

i don't think i've ever heard of a record going for more money. that is just insane. wonder if there'll be any more news on it now the auction is over...

Ack Ack Ack wrote:wow! looks like its gone to someone called 'mechadaddy' for $155,401.00.

i don't think i've ever heard of a record going for more money. that is just insane. wonder if there'll be any more news on it now the auction is over...

Yeah... I think we have a mystery plot still going on. Stay tuned, folks!

Yes.now the lottery starts:who's gonna pay for it?For sure the seller has to pay the auction fee(few thousand $) I have a suggestion:He 'd donate the acetate to the Velvet Forum & it'd go to one of us by lucky draw

Ok, own up. How many people have written to mechadaddy and asked for a CDR?

For several reasons, I think there is about zero chance anyone is actually going to pay $155,000 or even a fraction thereof for this acetate. There were way too many suspicious looking bids, by too many people, to make any sense.

Something like this would normally get sold in a live auction like a Christie's or Sotheby's.

The "seller" ordinarily sells bootleg recordings via a web site. In the auction, there is a link to yet another boot site where they are selling a VU DVD. The link, which was called a "review," takes you right to an online shopping cart.

But the seller really has nothing to lose from the phony bids. If the "winner" doesn't pay within seven days, the seller can report him/her as non-paying and eventually cancel the sale. Then, they can make a Second Chance Offer to the runner-up bidder... and so on, until they find someone willing to pay.

I totally agree.But even if he goes backwards on the bids,nobody's gonna buy it as there are other suspicious bids in between.

Let's see what happens next...

Today's Globe and Mail has the latest wrinkle - the winning bid was bogus!

"On the weekend Saturn received an e-mail from the supposed winner who said a friend, unbeknownst to him, had, as a lark, bid on the acetate using his (the supposed winner's) computer at work and account number. "Ohmigod, I'm so sorry," the e-mail read in part. "I can barely afford gas for my car" let alone more than $150,000 for a 40-year-old disc of acetone-covered aluminum."

The owner of the disc didn't disclose what he planned to do next.

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