Retail is hell!! Depending on condition and finish (and how full Ron Haring?s trailer Is <grin>), I can get a VV-IX for $150 to $250. I recondition the soundbox, polish the hardware, clean, lube, grease the internals, clean and minimally recondition the finish(I have one on the project list to refinish to as close to original as I can get).
In my antique mall space, I ask $350 mahogany to $425 oak. I advise the customer of Victor Data Book information and what I have done to the machine. They also get 25% of the sales price value in ?free? records. A VV-VI is priced at $275 to $300 and a VV-IV $175 to $225. These prices are before discounts and sales. They don?t fly away, but are steady sales. LeRoy On 7/27/08 3:28 PM, "Walt" <waltsommers at comcast.net> wrote: > I know of no general antique shop that offers an antique phonograph worthy > of the often enormous price tag they paste to them. To see a price tag of > $600 on a VV-IX in one of the antique malls usually means that the "dealers" > have browsed the internet and seized on information like this very message > giving no thought to the context. >
