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³ BW> The *vast* majority of 45's are worth about $2-3.  It would help if    

³ BW> you told us what you had.                                              

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³It's a relief to hear someone else on the echo who's "realistic" about this 

³(If you've followed us here for a while you may recall some discussions 
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³had with some people who got rather upset at me for saying this stuff isn't 

³valuable as a lot of people seem to think.)                                 

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I'm pretty new to the echo, but I've been buying and selling records for
twenty-five years; I've lost count of the unplayable, scratched-up 
"treasures" I've had to diplomatically debunk to their proud owners.
The worst was a woman who brought in one of the old Sun Elvis 78s.  It 
was a dinner plate: gray, no grooves left, looked like it had been 
played with a fork.
She asked me what it was worth to me, and I said "Nothing."  She was 
*furious!*  Accused me of trying to rip her off (by NOT buying the 
record!?), and insisted that she had played it that morning and that it
sounded "perfect".  I shrugged, put it on our turntable, and the needle 
just skittered, didn't track at all.
She ripped it out of my hands and stomped out of the store.  I got a 
call later from one of the other shops in the area; she'd apparently 
been trying to sell this thing all over town, with no more luck that 
she'd had with me.  One dealer offered her $10 so he could lacquer it 
up and hang it on his wall, and she replied that if she couldn't get 
$100 for it she'd keep it.
I assume she kept it.
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