But I wonder, I never auction my soundtracks, even if I get a better edition (I kept my old version of Aliens and Total Recall). I see people get a soundtrack on Monday, rave about it and then sell it almost immediately

This raises some interesting questions:

1. Are soundtrack fans that fickle? How do you love a score on Monday and part with it in less than a week?

2. Do people buy soundtracks, burn them and then immediately try and recoup the cost on Ebay? Somebody once told me that they did exactly that with bootlegs and it makes me wonder if others do it with brand new scores.

3. If you walked into a music store and saw five copies of a rare score at a discount price would you buy all of them and then sell them on Ebay to your fellow collectors at an inflated price? I know it’s perfectly legal, but it just seems a little unfair to everybody else who might like to make a fabulous find that makes their month.
(I'm not talking about people who do this for a living, I'm talking about Joe Blow collectors)

Now me personally, I buy alot of stuff, and I'm not always thrilled with it. So I'd try and trade or sell it off, after it was released about 2 days ago. But I never come off saying the score was good.

I've also used trades to get rid of stuff I didn't care for: I got, I think, RAISE THE TITANIC! in exchange for Kamen's JACK. You won't hear me complaining about that.

In London a few weeks ago I saw a sealed copy of Manfredini's DEEP STAR SIX, very cheap. I thought about getting it solely for a quick eBay sale (hell, that's where I got my original copy - but then I remembered that I didn't pay that much for it...)

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Originally posted by TimT:
I think when you see something like that, people either have more than one copy of the CD, or just never intented to keep it to begin with. Especially if its a rare score.
Think about it, the last Dinotopia CD went for about $60 on eBay. But when you ask where people found the CD most say it was in a used bin.
knowing it was rare, and would make a lot of money, they most likely bought all copies that were there for about $5 and perhaps made a CDR for themselves. Then posted them.
They come online saying that the score is good and all that, but I think its just to arouse intrests, a setup for the eBay link they'll post tommorrow.
And maybe these scores are good like they say, but not good enough to pass up $60-$70 on them.

Now me personally, I buy alot of stuff, and I'm not always thrilled with it. So I'd try and trade or sell it off, after it was released about 2 days ago. But I never come off saying the score was good.

NP- Unfaithful - Jan A.P. Kaczmerek

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Well seeing as you are talking about ME, let me clarify a few things.

I LOVE the Dinotopia CD. I bought mine and posted it was available on the board. Then I got e-mails and requests about where to get it. Being the smart capitalist that I am I went back to the store and grabbed the remaining 3 copies. All were brand new and still sealed. They were not notched, punched or marked promo in any way. I then posted that I was auctioning them on e-bay for anyone who was interested as distribution looked spotty and figured I could make some money to pay for all these great club releases from Varese and FSM. So shoot me.

I NEVER buy a CD, make a CD-R and then sell off my copy.

Ya know...I work damn hard at finding things and I don't always get things that are out there. I don't have a lot of the connections that a lot of these other posters have. No agency promos come my way. No composers send me their CDs. I have to pay. Sometimes a lot...sometimes a little. So that's my story.

By the way...my first auction closed at $61 and my second at $31. There are others that closed higher. One at $86.00 and that was to an actually record dealer as the winner had to pay Calif. Sales Tax.