Missing sleeve AND missing insert plus the 'special seller fee' for Rattleheadsovdat wrote:
But seriously, why did this copy sell for only 1/5 of the previous one, only because of the missing sleeve??
Yeah, it's a ridiculous price gap. See my thread 'The Price of Picture Sleeves' for more on this phenomena. I understand that a copy with sleeve and insert is worth more than a copy without, but I don't get why the difference is so huge. I could easily see a 50% price drop, but often it's more like a 75-90% price drop. The MdS dropped 80%, and several sleeveless copies of this single have sold for around $150, a 90% drop (and just so no one thinks the drop is inflated by Rattlehead's copy selling for a crazy price, there's at least 2 other copies archived on popsike selling for 800-900 GBP, which is about what Rattlehead's copy brought).
I've seen the Baseline 7" drop 90% with a photocopied sleeve and the Ricochet 7" drop 93% w/ a copied sleeve instead of the original (which half the copies came without in the first place). The conclusion is that the cover is worth much more than the actual record.
