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Phonofreak wrote:I'm going to throw in a curve ball. Here are my pet peeves:
1. An Edison Diamond disk on a lateral cut machine.
2. A lateral cut record on an Edison Diamond disk machine.
3. Someone leaving a cylinder on the mandrel, especially if it's a wax one. This is all I can think of now, but I'm sure that I'll come up with more.
Harvey Kravitz

Surely nobody here did this in a featured phonograph photo? Or are these simply phonograph pet peeves in general?

epigramophone wrote:Here's mine, entitled "how not to play a record"......

It's the Australian model, mate!

I agree with Pete, an estimated range should not be difficult to come up with. Plus, there are enough seasoned professionals
on this Forum to correct or suggest what an adequate range might be if the original poster is slightly off target.

The whole issue comes across as a tad sinister (not singling anyone out BTW). One take on it can be that because many collectors
often sell machines as well, they don't want to pigeon hole themselves at a value if there's the slightest possibility they could make more.

Not suggesting that anyone who doesn't post a price is guilty of this, I probably wouldn't post a price because I honestly don't know what
the value of some of my machines are.
As a new-ish collector, the reluctance to share estimated values is part of the reason why I have no clue.

But I've learned to live with it and find my own ways of gathering this information, unfortunately it's made me question whether I should
share it with others.

Back to not putting a value on the machines, isn't it anyones guess. Do you use what machines sell for on Ebay, at phono shows, auctions, private sales, east coast, west coast etc. ? I do know when I was looking to buy a Credenza a couple of years ago the prices were all over the place. There doesn't seem to be many in my area so prices tend to be higher even on very common models. Price is so subjective. For those that are able to attend most of the phono shows and phono auctions I'm sure they are better able to determine current prices.