No, I'm not saying it will never sell that high again. My point is that prices can fluctuate widely, but people tend to assume that the higher price is the 'correct' one b/c those auctions and sales make a big impression on us. A record sells for a lot on ebay, and in many cases you start seeing more copies turn up b/c the owner thinks, "hey, i want that much for my copy too!". The high-dollar auctions get archived in places like popsike and this very thread, but folks don't often report, record, or remember the low-dollar auctions. This can skew the amount that people think the item is worth.
If 10 Limozines sell for $70 each and one sells for $10, then $70 is the 'correct' price and the $10 buyer just got lucky. But if 10 Limozines sell for $70, $70, and the other eight for $10 each, some people will only notice the two $70 copies and thus they will think that $70 is the 'correct' price.
The seller of the $10 Limozine clearly thought that the record should bring ~$70 since he had seen that $70 auction. He wanted others to also think the record was worth $70, as he included a link to the $70 auction in his listing as proof of that value. But this $10 copy won't be archived on popsike and it never showed up on Collectors Weekly, so a future seller or buyer isn't likely to know about this sale. Instead, he/she is likely to keep using the $70 sale as a reference point for the record's value.
The 'message' I referred to in my orig. post is just that buyers (and sellers) should be careful about assuming a record is worth $X just b/c they saw one copy sell for $X. I guess it comes down to an issue of sample size: what does one auction tell us? This is exactly why I ask long-time collectors and dealers for their opinions regarding rarity and value; popsike + my own experiences often don't yield enough copies to get a good grasp on what a 'reasonable' price is for the record in question. Folks that have dealt with more records than me have a larger data set, which helps identify which record consistently sells for $70, and which record only brings $70 in rare instances.
Hope that clarifies my orig. psot.
"I'm sorry Sam, we had real chemistry. But like a monkey on the sun, our love was too hot to live"
-Becky
