To the Person Who Just Dropped 3k on Ebay for Hartford '98 Poster

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  • Mr. Fixer
    Mr. Fixer Posts: 593
    BF89905 said:
    $3,000.00 for a concert poster is obsurd
    I know, it is completely krazy
  • Zod
    Zod Posts: 10,982
    To be fair it's a collector's item.  Collector's item's are generally out of wack with reality :)

    There's only so many Yield tour posters that survived thumbtacks, horrible frames, and 20 years of moving around.   Back then no one knew the would become collector's items.  Take all the survivors and them subtract how many of them live in collections where they'll never be sold.  Only leave so many.  If you saw a tour in '98 and you really want the poster.   You either live without or compete on price with a number of other people who want the same thing.
  • Cridder
    Cridder Posts: 165
    Zod said:
    To be fair it's a collector's item.  Collector's item's are generally out of wack with reality :)

    There's only so many Yield tour posters that survived thumbtacks, horrible frames, and 20 years of moving around.   Back then no one knew the would become collector's items.  Take all the survivors and them subtract how many of them live in collections where they'll never be sold.  Only leave so many.  If you saw a tour in '98 and you really want the poster.   You either live without or compete on price with a number of other people who want the same thing.
    Supply and demand.  Get ready for the lock....
  • pjl44
    pjl44 Posts: 10,707
    Except we haven't seen one sell for that much yet. A couple have sold for a lot but not 3k. Just more exercises in artificial inflation.
  • PB11041
    PB11041 Earth Posts: 2,845
    If someone is willing to pay for it, end of story.  I have just five posters from shows that I just really liked the posters and shows, only 1 is really "valuable" - Ward S Randalls Island 1996.  The others Jones Beach 2000, Albany 2003, MSG 2003 and Ottawa 2005 are ones I just really clicked with.  

    In 1998 when I toured I just did not want to be carrying around a poster every night, I liked Barrie ok, liked Pitt ok, loved the Cleveland, was meh on Camden and the NY/NJ poster.   I thought I will see if someone has an extra sometime or pick up off tenclub newsletter when they used to sell APs that way.  I got lazy.  Then it got crazy, I was never going to spend more than 4x the show price for a poster.  

    But shit, if someone has the cash to burn on a collectible is what it is.   
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  • deadendp
    deadendp Northeast Ohio Posts: 10,434
    Your lil Grey Poupon money burning dude just about made me choke on my cereal. :rofl:
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  • Hobbes
    Hobbes Pacific Northwest Posts: 6,438
    deadendp said:
    Your lil Grey Poupon money burning dude just about made me choke on my cereal. :rofl:
    Grape Nuts?
  • Mattchew
    Mattchew Posts: 1,345
    pjl44 said:
    Except we haven't seen one sell for that much yet. A couple have sold for a lot but not 3k. Just more exercises in artificial inflation.
    True, it is crazy, but that's what you get when one pops up for sale after a few months to a year.  Especially if someone has been searching for years.
  • 100 Pacer
    100 Pacer Toronto, ON Posts: 9,336
    pjl44 said:
    Except we haven't seen one sell for that much yet. A couple have sold for a lot but not 3k. Just more exercises in artificial inflation.
    Not artificial when demand far exceeds supply.
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  • pjl44
    pjl44 Posts: 10,707
    100 Pacer said:
    pjl44 said:
    Except we haven't seen one sell for that much yet. A couple have sold for a lot but not 3k. Just more exercises in artificial inflation.
    Not artificial when demand far exceeds supply.
    Artificial in the sense that people are reporting on or discussing sales that never occurred
  • pjl44
    pjl44 Posts: 10,707
    This thread has produced:

    - Discussion of a Hartford sale that no one has pointed to
    - Links to 2 auctions from an account with 0 feedback
    - Both were 98 posters listed well above their highest reported sale
    - Both were ended in a couple days without a sale, one being relisted with a higher price

    All fishy, zero data points
  • SweetDaddyLou
    SweetDaddyLou Posts: 1,391
    100 Pacer said:
    pjl44 said:
    Except we haven't seen one sell for that much yet. A couple have sold for a lot but not 3k. Just more exercises in artificial inflation.
    Not artificial when demand far exceeds supply.


    As the kiddies like to say nowadays, 'true dat'! haha

    I totally agree with Pacer.

  • dankind
    dankind Posts: 20,841
    Hobbes said:
    deadendp said:
    Your lil Grey Poupon money burning dude just about made me choke on my cereal. :rofl:
    Grape Nuts?
    Deez Nuts!!
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  • SweetDaddyLou
    SweetDaddyLou Posts: 1,391
    pjl44 said:
    This thread has produced:

    - Discussion of a Hartford sale that no one has pointed to
    - Links to 2 auctions from an account with 0 feedback
    - Both were 98 posters listed well above their highest reported sale
    - Both were ended in a couple days without a sale, one being relisted with a higher price

    All fishy, zero data points

    Whoa!? I wasn't aware. Ultimately someone spent $3,000 (which I don't have) for an awesome poster (which I wish I had)! Personally I would find it very difficult to drop that kind of cash on anything without seeing/touching/inspecting it in person, just saying. Hopefully all works out!
  • tempo_n_groove
    tempo_n_groove Posts: 42,162
    tommy boy said:
    I actually purchased some Amazzzinnng Reproductions of said poster  on heavy stock paper from "SCHMamazon" last year because I , like you, wanted one for my collection, then posted  the others on SCHmebay  but got shut down by the Gustapo... Ask Shumway, I believe I gave him a freebee in Good Diplomatic Ties to strengthen US/Canada relations a while back...LOL....Then there was the fake pitt that was allowed...
    Nothing is amazing about a repro, sorry.
  • PJ_Soul
    PJ_Soul Vancouver, BC Posts: 51,020
    edited March 2019

    SweetDaddyLou said:
    pjl44 said:
    This thread has produced:

    - Discussion of a Hartford sale that no one has pointed to
    - Links to 2 auctions from an account with 0 feedback
    - Both were 98 posters listed well above their highest reported sale
    - Both were ended in a couple days without a sale, one being relisted with a higher price

    All fishy, zero data points

    Whoa!? I wasn't aware. Ultimately someone spent $3,000 (which I don't have) for an awesome poster (which I wish I had)! Personally I would find it very difficult to drop that kind of cash on anything without seeing/touching/inspecting it in person, just saying. Hopefully all works out!
    Did someone ultimately spend $3K though? I think his point is that there is no evidence that this sale being discussed ever happened, in which case, we really should acknowledge that, or prove it to have happened, because right now it seems possible that the only thing artificially inflating the price for that poster is this thread.
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  • pjl44
    pjl44 Posts: 10,707
    PJ_Soul said:

    SweetDaddyLou said:
    pjl44 said:
    This thread has produced:

    - Discussion of a Hartford sale that no one has pointed to
    - Links to 2 auctions from an account with 0 feedback
    - Both were 98 posters listed well above their highest reported sale
    - Both were ended in a couple days without a sale, one being relisted with a higher price

    All fishy, zero data points

    Whoa!? I wasn't aware. Ultimately someone spent $3,000 (which I don't have) for an awesome poster (which I wish I had)! Personally I would find it very difficult to drop that kind of cash on anything without seeing/touching/inspecting it in person, just saying. Hopefully all works out!
    Did someone ultimately spend $3K though? I think his point is that there is no evidence that this sale being discussed ever happened, in which case, we really should acknowledge that, or prove it to have happened, because right now it seems possible that the only thing artificially inflating the price for that poster is this thread.

  • deadendp
    deadendp Northeast Ohio Posts: 10,434
    Hobbes said:
    deadendp said:
    Your lil Grey Poupon money burning dude just about made me choke on my cereal. :rofl:
    Grape Nuts?
    Cocoa Krispies.  :smiley:  
    tommy boy said:
    I actually purchased some Amazzzinnng Reproductions of said poster  on heavy stock paper from "SCHMamazon" last year because I , like you, wanted one for my collection, then posted  the others on SCHmebay  but got shut down by the Gustapo... Ask Shumway, I believe I gave him a freebee in Good Diplomatic Ties to strengthen US/Canada relations a while back...LOL....Then there was the fake pitt that was allowed...
    As an artist I scream DO NOT PURCHASE REPRODUCTIONS!  Whether you realize it or not, you are screwing the original artist who crafted the piece.  I know it doesn't seem like a big deal, but it is.  Please do not do this.  
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  • densan
    densan Posts: 563
    As a person who collects I see copies as taking food or income to live on from someone. When it's your living or passions no one should be that disrespectful or uncaring. All I can do is pass it on. Not cool at all. 
    How come no one has said anything about the Dallas 98 that appears to have sold for 3k recently. I may be missing something, but I watched it sell. I think I did at least. I may have been tricked. Dammit! This is not a link that has anything to do with me. Please do not think that.
    Here is a link:
    https://www.ebay.com/itm/1998-Ames-bros-Pearl-Jam-Poster-Artist-Print-79-350-Signed-By-The-Artist-Framed/163554001132?hash=item26149400ec:g:3vIAAOSw~9JcbLC8
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  • densan
    densan Posts: 563
    Im not the poster police. I've bought my share of boots. Not judging for me it's not cool. It's a personal thing. Disregard. 
    Be different & make a difference. Decency & kindness @ a grassroots level works.

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