kirbypuckett Posted February 27, 2008 Share Posted February 27, 2008 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/08057/860565-100.stm?cmpid=news.xml Record Rama owner waiting for new offer By Scott Mervis, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette Paul Mawhinney, whose road to retirement seemed to be paved last Thursday, is now playing the waiting game. The owner of Record Rama has closed his 41-year-old Ross store and is hoping for offers from two potential out-of-town buyers who visited on Monday. Mawhinney is hoping they'll come in with an offer on his warehouse of nearly three million LPs and CDs that the collector estimated to be worth nearly $50 million. On Friday night, he and agent J. Paul Henderson learned that the winning bid of $3,002,150 from "jopsoup" on eBay was a fraud, as were the other five bids. Henderson said today they will not re-list the collection on eBay until after they hear from the new suitors. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dante3000 Posted February 27, 2008 Share Posted February 27, 2008 God, that's a bummer. You know what's sad is he probably has a few items in there he could just up and sell and make that much money, but no one wants the whole set. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
j4m35 Posted February 27, 2008 Share Posted February 27, 2008 happy b-day dante! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jawbreaker Posted February 27, 2008 Share Posted February 27, 2008 God, that's a bummer. You know what's sad is he probably has a few items in there he could just up and sell and make that much money, but no one wants the whole set. I saw a picture of the guy with a Rolling Stones album valued at 10 grand. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
brennan Posted February 27, 2008 Share Posted February 27, 2008 yah. i assumed he would screen the bids pretty thoroughly for something like that. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mystic84 Posted February 27, 2008 Share Posted February 27, 2008 i guess that collection will hardly get sold, because just some billionaire guy could buy it. and there aren't so many billionaires who love vinyl so much that they'd buy those millions of records. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cosmonaut Posted February 27, 2008 Share Posted February 27, 2008 It pisses me off that these bids were not sincere. The government should buy the collection and start a museum/library of American music. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
flood Posted February 27, 2008 Share Posted February 27, 2008 It pisses me off that these bids were not sincere. The government should buy the collection and start a museum/library of American music. they have one, its called the library of congress. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
voodooramen Posted February 27, 2008 Share Posted February 27, 2008 It pisses me off that these bids were not sincere. The government should buy the collection and start a museum/library of American music. they have one, its called the library of congress. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cosmonaut Posted February 27, 2008 Share Posted February 27, 2008 It pisses me off that these bids were not sincere. The government should buy the collection and start a museum/library of American music. they have one, its called the library of congress. True, but this collection would make a stellar addition to, or at least a dedicated music branch of, the LOC. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jon720 Posted February 27, 2008 Share Posted February 27, 2008 This was on the news yesterday. It's said there's a buyer lined up and is paying more than the 3 million from Ebay. The new owner is making it a museum and digitally recording all the stuff to be available online. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mcm1610 Posted February 27, 2008 Share Posted February 27, 2008 Wow that's kinda cool. Let's see the RIAA jump all over that, though. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
forgeagain Posted February 27, 2008 Share Posted February 27, 2008 I'm guessing he is only going to release the old stuff that is now in the public domain. I don't see how you could feel bad for this guy. It's not like he bought 3 million records on accident. If he was smart he would take the time to go through and sell the records that are worth a fortune and just kick the rest of the shit to the dollar bin. $1 x 2.5 million still sounds pretty good. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Admin Posted February 27, 2008 Share Posted February 27, 2008 wow, I would love to just have a day and go through all those records. could you imagine the gems in that warehouse? and the piles of shit? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
alejandroid Posted February 27, 2008 Share Posted February 27, 2008 this dudes gotta get a deadformat list or somethin. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zak138 Posted February 27, 2008 Share Posted February 27, 2008 looking into the aisles of records reminded me of the end of Raiders of the Lost Ark. It looked like it could go on forever. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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