MARGARITAVILLE

My husband, Mark told me months ago to Ebay his old LP's. I laughed! Who is going to buy those? Who still has a turn table? HA! Well, it seems there is a market for old LP's. I don't know why I should be surprised since I've sold a doll with the head off and live Koi fish on Ebay. Ebay is like something out of a fiction book. Things of seemingly no value here on planet earth, have value in Ebay's world.

Since there were so many LP's, my husband grouped them by music style. The first group listed, happened to be all by the same artist: Seven Jimmy Buffett albums. Most of them were not in the best condtion. Meaning, many of them had a faded ring imprint on the cover from where the album was pressing from years and years of storage. All the covers had some form of rubbing to the edges and corners. They did though have their original jackets, but most of the jackets were just plain without any type of song lyrics or graphics. All the records looked in perfect condition, so I believe they could of been played without any problems.

Within 24 hours we had received a bid of $2.50. Not too exciting, huh? However, shortly after that bid, this auction entered the Ebay Twilight Zone. The bidding went up and up and ended at $82.53! Of course, I screamed "What!". Who would buy these when they could buy the CD?? Mark reminded me that one of those albums was made before he was famous. However, when we saw how well the auction did, we decided to do some Googling research. We found you could buy it in CD form. So what gives? If you look closely at the songs on both the LP and the CD, you see that there are 3 songs that were not recorded on the CD. I'm sure this is what drove the bidding.

So, next time you pass up that box of LP's at a garage sale or Goodwill, you might want to flip through them and see if you can find "Before the Salt".

Later this week, I will let you know what happened to the rest of my husband's old LP's.

Rock on...