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Reed College annexed by eBay Nation
by acdickson

Well, last night you Portlanders had your last chance to see the infamous AC Dickson: eBay PowerSeller seminar. Reed College is now eBay country.

The show was fantastic. Good crowd, good energy. As usual, I had 5 auctions end during the climax of the show. Historic Jazz concert handbills from New York City shows from the 1960's. The last auction to end had a major pop off in the last 10 seconds. The Thelonius Monk handbill from the 1967 jumped from $15 to $99. If seeing that with your own eyes live doesn't inspire you start selling on eBay, nothing will.

But the most insane pop-off action took place earlier yesterday afternoon during work hours on the East Coast (where all 5 handbills were purchased from). The hottest poster was a little number from a Ella Fitzgerald Duke Ellington show at Carnegie Hall that ended up being turned into a classic album. Around 2 pm Eastern Standard Time it jumped from $20 to $621 in about two minutes, which is what it eventually sold for. The buyer? Why the Carnegie Hall. It's going straight into their museum. Now isn't that nice.

Is there anyway this amazing piece of Jazz history would have found it's way home without eBay? I don't think so. And that's why eBay is so great. Not only it is lining AC's pockets, and allowing me to make my buyers happy happy people. but it's furthering the cultural heritage of the human race.

Now for the Portland folks that missed the show. Well, maybe in another life. But you can get a little AC in your life before I scamper back off to Los Angeles. As we speak, I'm auctioning off a thrift store tour of Portland to take place this Sunday. Believe it. It's a quick 3 day auction that ends Saturday night so get ready to bid, bid, buy.

For those outside of PDX, sit tight. We're working here at AC HQ on lining up shows across the globe. We're confirmed for a string of seminars in the UK, Nottingham, Glasgow and hopefully Bristol. Looks like Pittsburgh is going to work out and we'll mount the show to Los Angeles as well. And we're just getting warm. If you want to bring AC to your fair city, get in touch and we'll see what we can do.

Live long, live strong, and eBay.

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Comments

AC, you inspired me. I put an auction up tonight. I liked it when the lady behind us danced along.

Posted by: jason at March 3, 2005 11:28 PM

Also, a few people have posted pictures:

flickr.com/photos/tags/acdickson/

Posted by: Mikey at March 4, 2005 5:57 PM