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I'm out, 10 was my top. Seeing that 5 minutes show up when I thought I had it for 7.75 was infuriating.

$33,748 if they had to pay Chicago sales tax.

I fixed the text they added to the pallet 🤣 "Test Presses from Various Artists such as: A Day To Remember; Thursday, Warzone, Atreyu, Bad Brains, Between The Buried And Me, Bayside, Broadside, Darkest Hour, Comeback Kid, Silverstein, Blood For Blood, Earth Crisis, Strife, Reverend, Horton Heat, Cause For Alarm, Snapcase, Jungle Rot & Others" "Test Presses from Various Artists such as: Awaken I Am, Carousel Kings, Conveyer, Dead Girls Academy, We Ride, Shattered Sun, Feed Her to the Sharks, Sister Sin, Fall City Fall, Wretched, Pathology, Grave Maker, Thieves and Villains, Islander, Continents, The Royalty, Tear Out the Heart, Colours & others"

That's bonkers. Adding in stuff from those new pictures, I've ID'd 80% of the pallet (I'll share the list after the auction ends). I hope this goes to a collector, because if it's somebody looking to flip them, they're gonna take a bath.

I've got all of them. Black Room is great, there's some good stuff in the Green and Maladroit demos too. A lot of the Green and Mala demos are similar to the demos we already have from those time periods. I was also pleasantly surprised with the Make Believe demos. I hate that record, but there was way better stuff that could've been on there.

Based on what I saw today, at least one of the boxes in the middle of the pallet is likely full of sampler CDs. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

I'm out on the pallet. It's up to $15K which is too rich for my blood. Hopefully the buyer enjoys all those Victory releases from the last five years that nobody's ever heard of.

It's the Tony Victory way!

For sure, I'm also more intrigued by the trunk, and am going to try and look through it a bit.

Based on what I find out later today (and where the prices go tomorrow), I'm still planning to bid, and can pay in full (full payment is required w/in 48 hours). I'd rent a small moving van and a jack to get it out, but boy would I love some help carrying it all up the four flight of stairs into my place! If I win, I'd look to move it out either this Friday the 11th, or next Friday. I'd most likely be limited to nights/weekends for sorting/organizing, but video chatting would definitely help move it along. It's a huge effort just to identify and reorganize the physical items, let alone digitize the records too.

Alan, can I ask that you only grant access to established board members who PM you about it first? If there're any potential bidders watching this thread remotely (and this is the second Google result for victory records auction), I don't want to be doing their work for them.

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That's also part of the difficulty with a group thing. I think everybody's interested in keeping some number of the tests. You could structure it so that every $X put in allows you to keep X number of tests, but not knowing what all's in there means there may not be any of what an individual wants. It also could impact the total profit by removing more valuable records from the sale pile. I'd be interested to hear (today) from the folks who have said they'd throw in a couple hundred bucks. What are you hoping to get out of this? What does success look like for you? God, that sounds like I'm at work, sorry. Agreeing on a single focus/plan of action may not even be possible. Alan, thanks for listing them out. I looked them up on Discogs yesterday too, and while it was mostly newer stuff (like Paul said), there are catalog numbers back into the early hundreds which is more in line with where the good stuff is.

As it all seems to be tests, my take is that the name of the game is re-selling them all. But the problem that presents with a Collective model is, it's gonna take a long-ass time to sell all that off. Some stuff will do really well; 4 tests of whatever new chud they pressed in 2018... not so much. And if everybody splits the profit proportionally, based on their original investment, everybody has to wait until the end to cash out. There's no way we can predict, or guarantee a certain amount of profit to everybody, because we're not Virgil. Frame of reference, there's currently about $1500 proffered by folks in this thread. I don't want to post the number publicly, but, if the numbers don't spike too much higher, I'd still lean toward buying them outright. I'm open to a group purchase, but is everybody content to wait for like a year until everything sells? Or Paul, do you see another way of the finances shaking out? I can't take January and February off to inventory and sell everything, so I'd have to spread it out. I just emailed the auctioneer to ask if I can physically inspect the pallet tomorrow. I'd be happy with looking in a couple of the top boxes, and picking up a couple more, just to gauge weight. I'd also like to snap some more photos of the catalog numbers. Their T&C explicitly say that inspections are encouraged, so we'll see!

I was hoping for a life-size poster of fist-pumping Tony Victory. Alas, it was not to be.

If you don't have enough time to go through everything you want to, let me know, and I can put in a request to tour it tomorrow. I live a 10 minute walk from their warehouse.

I'm interested to hear what all's in there. If those boxes are all full of test pressings, there's certainly profit to be made by reselling them. But if it's a mix of stampers and mechanical parts, it'd be nice to return them to the relevant bands, but that may turn into more of a break-even kind of thing than a profitable thing.

Chicago VC group buy? I'm only half joking. Edit: There are a ton of RIAA awards in the greater auction, as well, if that's your jam.

Thanks for sharing this. I was gonna hold off for a bit on this, but seeing that Shuga got an exclusive got me off the couch to buy one!

The Teal copy was marked down to $6 as a Cyber Monday flash sale. Just so ya know...

Thanks y'all. Grabbed some $10 Hot Water Music LPs from Rise, and a variety of stuff from New West and P&P.

Got my pile of records in from these dudes. They look good and sound better. Highly recommended! https://jrjuggernaut.bandcamp.com/merch

90 copies on teal ($15) available from the band. 100 copies on yellow ($6) available from MerchNow. 100 copies on pink ($6) available from MerchNow.

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My offer is still on the table for any Drop 3 (or Drop 2 or Drop 1) items you're still looking for. I'm going out this afternoon to get a couple things for folks, so I'll be shipping items out today too. Help me get rid of some mailers and PM me!