AITA for not telling the seller what the record in his crate was worth?
me (33F), i dj weekends and work at a record shop, which is relevant. estate sale in june. boxes of records, mostly nothing. in the third box there's a pressing i recognized immediately — first press, specific matrix, the kind of thing you see maybe twice. the guy running the sale was the son (60sM). everything in that room was two dollars. i paid two dollars. it's worth somewhere between 1800 and 2400 depending on the day. i haven't sold it. it's been in my flat for two months and i haven't been able to play it once. my coworker says every dealer in the world does this and that pricing is the seller's job. my friend outside the business asked me how i'd feel if it was my dad's records, and i didn't have an answer. i know what the trade says. i'm asking what people who aren't in the trade think.
What People Are Saying
Send him a cheque. Not the whole thing if you can't — half, with a note saying what it was. He'll be glad to know his father had it.
the note saying what it was is more the point than the money honestly. he doesn't know his dad owned that.
The trade's rule exists so dealers can sleep. It's a good rule for a market and a poor one for a man standing in his dead father's front room.
Trains are the same. Every collector I know has one story like this and every one of them tells it slightly guiltily forty years later. That's the tell.
NTA technically!! but you're not asking a technical question, you already know what the trade says. you're asking permission to do the thing you want to do.
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@h_pruitt_genealogy+238
You've had it two months and can't play it. You've already given your own verdict, you're just asking us to overturn it.