Yesterday was a day of frustration but also learning and some ok finds. I had looked some items up on my Samsung Moment phone the day before, knowing they would be on sale the following morning. I stayed up until 3am the night before, researching new ways to look up items including scanning barcodes to compare prices on Amazon.com for books and cds. This is something I'd never done before and was now very possible with my Samsung Android powered phone.
However this story actually starts two days before this, I was most excited about a record that I spotted two days prior. I went through a stack of 45 rpm records and picked out some I thought were interesting. I took pictures of them to look up later (instead of looking them up on the spot like I should have). I went up to the counter with the records I decided to buy, Pat Benatar Hit Me With Your Best Shot (for my personal collection), The Gray Things on Laurie, and a blank labeled record with "The Jacksons" written on it. They were only 29 cents! My gut feeling was to go back and get the other records I thought were interesting because they were so cheap. I opted to wait though, and when I got home I got busy with other stuff and forgot about them.
So two days later I looked at the photos I had taken and realized one of the records, a group called Quadrangle on the Philips label, was rare and worth somewhere between 30 and 100 dollars! I was hoping it would still be there the next morning.
So as mentioned I was up till 3am the night before, and somehow I managed to turn my alarm off in my sleep and did not get up until an hour later than I wanted, well after the store had opened. I was frustrated with myself but crawled out of bed and into my truck to see if there was anything left. Luckily almost everything I wanted was still there, except that darn record! I looked through the stack 3 times to make sure, every other record I saw was there except that one. Darnit!
Out of frustration for missing out on a deal, I decided maybe I should scan some CDs just for fun. There was another guy there buying a lot of CDs. I remember reading the night before that some jazz cds can be worth a little bit, and I just so happened to see one so I snatched it up intending to scan it with my new phone. The CD was Doc De Haven Jazzscapes. Unfortunately it didn't have a bar code, so I had to search for it by title on ShopSavvy. Boy was I surprised when it came back with the lowest used price of $15.99! Well that was enough to hook me and I ended up scanning about 40 cds with my phone. I ended up buying 6. It was fun! I've never sold on Amazon.com before but I figured it is certainly worth a try.
Here's a list of the day's finds:
Grumman F6F Hellcat Vintage Rubber Band Powered Balsa Model Airplane Model made by Comet 4.00
Lange Anthea Ski Boots 4.00
CDs
The Gourds present Heavy Ornamentals 1.00
Ladysmith Black Mambazo 1.00
Nancy Lamka 1.00
Doc De Haven Jazzscapes 1.50
Atmosphere 1.50 (Got home and realized the case was empty! Silly mistake!)
Great Recordings of Der Rosenkavalier George Szell Volume 1, no book but an extra cd 1.50
45 rpm records, they were on sale for only 15 cents!
The Robbs on Mercury
Mable John on Stax
Arthur Conley on Fame
And some LP classical records:
Mussorgsky and Prokofieff by Carlo Giulini on Deutsche Grammophon (often abbreviated DG or DGG) 2 of these, one was 1.50, the othe one a dollar
Hindemith by Gaetano Delogu on Supraphon 1.50
Chopin by Claudio Arrau on Philips 1.00
Schubert by Rafael Druian and John Simms on Mercury 1.00
Tchaikovsky by Dorati on Mercury 1.00
Although I was happy with my finds and excited about the new possibilities using ShopSavvy on my phone to help me find things to sell on Amazon, I was still frustrated about that record. I had it in my hands, and instead I bought 3 other records that probably aren't worth anything at all. I thought "The Gray Things" was an odd name, but I couldn't find any record of them so figured it was worthless. But believe it or not I got lucky again and found that one recently sold on ebay for $40. What a consolation prize. Here's the records I had purchased that day, with the Gray Things int the middle:
And here's a pic of the one that got away:
I'm not expecting too much money from these items, especially the Cds, but it will get me started on a new type of item to sell. All in all a fun day!
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