A giant garage sale hoax this morning.

And ad was put up on Craigslist yesterday for a garage sale at Port Royal.
It pictured numerous very valuable collector records (some $1000+) and a lot of other high dollar stuff.  And all the records would be priced at a dollar each.
The ad said that the seller would meet everyone who showed up at the gate to Port Royal at 8 AM to walk them back to the property where the sale would be.  
Record collectors and dealers from all over the south tried to contact the seller through the craigslist messenging system but got no response.  So they came from afar and lined up at the gate before 8.  
At about 8:15,  someone from the Port Royal property owner's association came out to tell us it was all a hoax.  She said she was an avid garage sailor herself and had tried to run it all down but could find no evidence that any of it was real and concluded it was all a hoax.  
It was a good one though.  And nobody knows what the motive was.  
Actually it's a good thing it was a hoax. Because if it had been real, a riot would have probably broke out down there when the sale started. lol

The lady who came to tell you all to leave probably bought everything.  

For those who aren't aware of this here's a little bit of record collecting trivia for you.

One of the items pictured in the Craigslist ad for $1 was what we record buffs call the Beatles "butcher cover".

When the Beatles first released their Yesterday and Today LP in 1966,  it actually had a cover photo of the Beatles wearing butcher clothing and holding the dismembered body parts of babies (who knows what they were thinking when they did this) ...



Almost immediately after it was released, the shit hit the fan over that cover photo.  So the butcher cover LP's which were already out there but hadn't yet been sold were shipped back to the record plant to have this replacement cover pasted on top of the butcher photo...



And then shortly after that the cover was made with the benign photo on it and no butcher underneath.
Consequently the butcher covers are in very great demand.  The ones which got sold without the pasteover are called "1st state" butcher covers.  Here's one that sold on ebay for $12,500...

http://www.ebay.com/itm/THE-BEATLES-YESTERDAY-TODAY-AUTHENTIC-MONO-BUTCHER-COVER-FIRST-STATE-MINT-/140988796564?hash=item20d3964e94

The ones that started out with the butcher cover and then had the benign cover pasted on are a trip too.  Because collectors use some very sophisticated methods to remove the newer cover and get them back to the butcher cover.  Those are called "peeled" butcher covers.  lol

Bob wrote:For those who aren't aware of this here's a little bit of record collecting trivia for you.

One of the items pictured in the Craigslist ad for $1 was what we record buffs call the Beatles "butcher cover".

When the Beatles first released their Yesterday and Today LP in 1966,  it actually had a cover photo of the Beatles wearing butcher clothing and holding the dismembered body parts of babies (who knows what they were thinking when they did this) ...



Almost immediately after it was released, the shit hit the fan over that cover photo.  So the butcher cover LP's which were already out there but hadn't yet been sold were shipped back to the record plant to have this replacement cover pasted on top of the butcher photo...



And then shortly after that the cover was made with the benign photo on it and no butcher underneath.
Consequently the butcher covers are in very great demand.  The ones which got sold without the pasteover are called "1st state" butcher covers.  Here's one that sold on ebay for $12,500...

http://www.ebay.com/itm/THE-BEATLES-YESTERDAY-TODAY-AUTHENTIC-MONO-BUTCHER-COVER-FIRST-STATE-MINT-/140988796564?hash=item20d3964e94

The ones that started out with the butcher cover and then had the benign cover pasted on are a trip too.  Because collectors use some very sophisticated methods to remove the newer cover and get them back to the butcher cover.  Those are called "peeled" butcher covers.  lol

that's fucked up bob, the butchered baby cover.  

Bob wrote:And ad was put up on Craigslist yesterday for a garage sale at Port Royal.
It pictured numerous very valuable collector records (some $1000+) and a lot of other high dollar stuff.  And all the records would be priced at a dollar each.
The ad said that the seller would meet everyone who showed up at the gate to Port Royal at 8 AM to walk them back to the property where the sale would be.  
Record collectors and dealers from all over the south tried to contact the seller through the craigslist messenging system but got no response.  So they came from afar and lined up at the gate before 8.  
At about 8:15,  someone from the Port Royal property owner's association came out to tell us it was all a hoax.  She said she was an avid garage sailor herself and had tried to run it all down but could find no evidence that any of it was real and concluded it was all a hoax.  
It was a good one though.  And nobody knows what the motive was.  
Actually it's a good thing it was a hoax.  Because if it had been real, a riot would have probably broke out down there when the sale started.  lol

 

Oh my  ---how awful!

Well, if you look, the dolls in the picture are so obviously dolls that even though some  people may think it's royally  fucked up, I just think it's   a little distasteful. For goodness sake, you can see the dolls hinges where they hook their legs onto their torsos. It's just tearing up a toy and making a joke of it.  Maybe a sick joke, definitely a childish joke, but I don't think it means they were really "fucked up."
It's not even  done in a very sophisticated way.

You've got rock stars that eat live bats on stage. Now that is disgusting.
I'll even say that is definitely "fucked up."

I wish I had one of those covers. I'd sell it in a New York Minute. That's what I think about a lot of stuff on Antiques Road Show too.

EVERYONE who showed up refused to believe the old adage and thought they were smarter.

If something seems to good to be true...it is.

bluemoon wrote:Well, if you look, the dolls in the picture are so obviously dolls

That's true,  the "babies" are obviously dolls.  But the meat is also obviously real meat.  When you put the two together the image then becomes something different from just dolls.

from wiki...

former Capitol president Alan W. Livingston stated that it was Paul McCartney who pushed strongly for the photo's inclusion as the album cover, and that McCartney reportedly described it as "our comment on the [Vietnam] war"

and...

At the time, some of the Beatles defended the use of the Butcher photograph. John Lennon said that it was "as relevant as Vietnam" and McCartney said that their critics were "soft".[12] However, this opinion was not shared by all band members. George Harrison (who became a vegetarian) was quoted as saying that he thought the whole idea "was gross, and I also thought it was stupid. Sometimes we all did stupid things thinking it was cool and hip when it was naïve and dumb; and that was one of them.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yesterday_and_Today#The_.22Butcher_cover.22