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I have really mixed feelings about owning these tapes.
1. If I had lost the auction and never had a chance to hear these recordings, I'd feel that my life wasn't complete and be nagging the winner relentlessly to share.
2. But, since I'm shelling out some major money and having to liquidate part of my DADL collection to pay for these tapes, If I freely share these tapes to be a nice guy and not be selfish, then the value of these recordings becomes worthless because anyone with a recording can freely distrubute it and I don't get compensated at all, making me stupid for paying so much for them in the first place.
I'm between a rock and a hard place.
If *I* had to decide how to sell the tapes next time, I'd consider having Audiories make CDRs of them and sell them just like Ten-Gallon-Hat. Or, I'd take sealed bids from the DADL and DAMB fans and see if it comes to enough money. That kind of happened this time, except with everybody kicking in $25, it was obvious that the consortium wasn't going to win the tapes and some bootlegger would end up with them which would be the ultimate bummer.....so..... what to do except find some partners who felt the same way and buy the tapes.
The only real snag is Terry's desire not to have the recordings become widely distrubuted.... I don't know how that could be controlled in an auction setting.
I don't like being a pig and hogging the tapes to myself, but I don't want to be a moron and decrease their value to myself and other partners and disappoint Terry either!
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Let's say the current high bid on an item is $15. You could raise it to $16 and when somebody else raises it to $17, you could raise it again to $18 to stay in the bidding. Doing it that means you have to keep watching and going back to incriment your bid. If you simply put in your max price to begin with, the ebay computer will automatically raise your bid for you as long as there is somebody else doing the same thing. Once the other person hits their max price, ebay will stop incrimenting their bid, and will raise you bid one more time, leaving you the high bidder, though still maybe not at your max bid price. If somebody else comes along and raises the bid, ebay will again keep raising your bid until it reaches your max price. That's how the TST tapes went from $350 to $820 in a matter of seconds. Two or more bidders entered large max prices and the ebay computer automatically genereated bids for all biders until there was only one bidder who's max price was higher than $820 and stopped there. You don't have anyway of knowing what the max bid was of the winner. Could have been $820 or could have been $1000. But since he was the only one whos bid was atleast $820, the bidding stopped there.
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I, Mark Prinsen, long time DADL'er am one of the three lucky dogs who won the TST tapes. I didn't know Jason's bidding name and didn't even realize that it was us that had won. I was really bummed until Jason called me. I started whining to him about some guy out of nowhere winning the bid and then he surprises me with the information that at the last minute he took on a third partner to increase our maximum bid. Yipee!!! I haven't talked to the third partner yet, but I think I'm going to be doing the conversion of the tapes to digital. That will be fun. I did a similar project about 6 months before it was announced that Horrendous Disc would be rereleased. That is my favorite DA recording and the only one I didn't have on CD, so I started buying up HD LPs on ebay in the hopes of finding enough good tracks to make a complete CD. I found the best LP from some going-out-of-business Christian radio station in Australia (as I remember), who I don't imagine even played the record because it was in mint condition. I then spent a lot of evenings editing the tracks to remove as many pops and ticks as I could before eventually burning them to CD. Then I spent a good deal of time reducing the cover down to CD size (hard to do when your scanner can't scan the entire LP cover at once), and had this wonderful one-of-a-kind-great-to-trade-on-DADL-for-nifty Swirling-Eddies-tooth-paste- for about one month before Larry rereleased HD himself. I always figured it was to just to spite me!!!The dirty rat!!!
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