Unnumbered Benaroya Hall Vinyl??

The numbering was only hand written anyways, so they all started out without numbers. It doesn't suprise me that either:

1) They had a few spares over the 2000 they pressed (maybe test pressings?) or
2) They didn't bother to number all of them (the ones with low numbers seem harder to find.. given out to friends/family/charities)....

P-Town-P-Jam-Fan wrote:

Thanks guys!

Are you bidding? If you are, good luck that is a great price if you can win it for that.

Has anyone caught the Benny on Amazon for $3000.00...the seller describes it as new, excellent condition and sealed in original shrink-wrap, yet shows it spread out like a $10 whore...wtf... :fp:

I have sold off 90% of my collection. Outside of the first 5 albums, Binaural and Benaroya are the only albums I have kept.

pjradio wrote:

mine is unnumbered

Mine to

As even a long time collector, i had one of these in my cart when 10 Club sold them. I was at work (i'm a nurse in a Dublin government hospital), and a patient called me away from the computer...when i got back, someone had x'd off my screen, so i had to start again, and they were sold out!

I can't remember how long after-i'm guessing a few years, maybe? I saw one on eBay. It had no box or poster-it was the four coloured albums in their sleeves and shrink-wrapped in plastic (they could have been shrink-wrapped by the seller though). My first thought was: is it a bootleg? I can no longer remember if i asked the seller, and if i did, what the explanation was for the absence of the poster and box, but i was later informed by another collector that he had an idea on why the box and poster may have been missing: he said that when those sets were numbered, the fan club noted which member got which number. As the rule was: "if you resell this we reserve the right to boot you out of the fanclub", my collector pal said maybe that was why. Superficially, it makes sense...but i think you could eBay it for a lot more if the buyer doesn't rat you out and you don't put the box number on your eBay photo of the item. I still am not 100% sure what the real story is, but it crossed my mind that maybe they pressed a few copies slightly wrong? I have never played mine (not big on that show as a listen-at-home experience, really), but now the subject has come up, i might play all of the records this week and see if i am right. Ireland was still in the throes of gluttony that was termed the "Celtic Tiger", so i had the dough back then, and if it was a bootleg, it wouldn't be a huge deal if i kept to my maximum bid and no more...and it ended up that i did win it. Oh, and the price i payed for the set (WITH sleeves and WITHOUT box and poster?) It was, if memory serves (and my memory often sucks,) but i *think* i got the set for about $170 US (postage to Ireland from the US was quite a bit extra!).

Rands

^^^ Surprised to hear that 10C said they'd kick people out of the club if they sold their Benny, as though they were treating it like ticket scalping.... They obviously changed their minds on that one!

Zod wrote:

The Waiting Trophy Man wrote:

It was a Xmas present from my dad and it has been at my parent's house since about 2007. I live about 3,000 miles away. They have all my vinyl. I forgot I had Riot Act, too. I forget these things because #1 I don't have them with me and #2 I have never played them before. But $1100 or so, eh? Wonder if the price will go up soon since the show is almost 10 years old :think:

Prices seem to be falling on it. They were starting to go above $1500 for a sealed copy. Then a number of new copies arrived on the scene (from the 10c event in Seattle last year). I think they sold around 40 copies they were still holding in inventory. It seems to have put downward pressure on prices.

There was a while where you could go for weeks or months without seeing a benaroya listing on ebay. I'm guessing because people put serious effort into collecting them and less and less were circulating. Now there's usually 1 or 2 up on ebay at any given time.

I suppose once these fresh copies start landing in more permanent homes the price might go up again as the opportunity to bid on them becomes less frequent.

I can't find a single Benny on ebay at the moment... maybe the extras are drained from the market again.

Horse2345 wrote:

$1100 is high end 3 of last 5 were sold in $700s

Really? For sealed ones? I've never seen a sealed one go for that cheap (could have just not noticed though, obviously). That seems like a reasonable price for used ones though, not new ones.