# $10 trillion jazz album CD **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [October 7, 2013, 2:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/10-trillion-jazz-album-cd/670554 "2013-10-07T02:41:42Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 18\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Quimby](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/22d042/32.png) [@Quimby](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Quimby)\ **Post date:** [October 7, 2013, 6:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/10-trillion-jazz-album-cd/670554/21 "2013-10-07T18:51:57Z")
Not to be a Buzzkill (because it is funny) but the reason stuff like this happens is they have a program that compares their prices with a competitor and automatically adjusts accordingly which somehow gets messed up. I posted an article about it on Cafe Society when someone found a book about flies selling for millions of dollars. ---
**Author:** ![simster](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/simster/32/1047_2.png) [@simster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/simster)\ **Post date:** [October 7, 2013, 7:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/10-trillion-jazz-album-cd/670554/22 "2013-10-07T19:00:33Z")
> [@Quimby](#): > > Not to be a Buzzkill (because it is funny) but the reason stuff like this happens is they have a program that compares their prices with a competitor and automatically adjusts accordingly which somehow gets messed up. I posted an article about it on Cafe Society when someone found a book about flies selling for millions of dollars. except there is only 1 of these - you’d think the developer of said program would have accounted for that possibility - … or maybe they did… ---
**Author:** ![simster](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/simster/32/1047_2.png) [@simster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/simster)\ **Post date:** [October 7, 2013, 7:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/10-trillion-jazz-album-cd/670554/23 "2013-10-07T19:08:22Z")
> [@cochrane](#): > > Bleh. Can’t compare to the vinyl. I’d bid on it if it were an LP. I think the Illuminati own the reel(s). ---
**Author:** ![MoodIndigo1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e8c25b/32.png) [@MoodIndigo1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MoodIndigo1)\ **Post date:** [October 7, 2013, 9:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/10-trillion-jazz-album-cd/670554/24 "2013-10-07T21:12:36Z")
> [@cochrane](#): > > Bleh. Can’t compare to the vinyl. I’d bid on it if it were an LP. Damn, I came into the thread to post this. :mad: ---
**Author:** ![Joey\_P](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/919ad9/32.png) [@Joey\_P](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Joey_P)\ **Post date:** [October 7, 2013, 9:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/10-trillion-jazz-album-cd/670554/25 "2013-10-07T21:14:59Z")
> [@simster](#): > > except there is only 1 of these - you’d think the developer of said program would have accounted for that possibility - > … or maybe they did… Supply and demand. ---
**Author:** ![Chefguy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chefguy/32/138_2.png) [@Chefguy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chefguy)\ **Post date:** [October 7, 2013, 10:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/10-trillion-jazz-album-cd/670554/26 "2013-10-07T22:06:01Z")
Actually, the listing is for ten _quadrillion_ dollars, so we’re talking real money now. ---
**Author:** ![Quimby](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/22d042/32.png) [@Quimby](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Quimby)\ **Post date:** [October 8, 2013, 1:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/10-trillion-jazz-album-cd/670554/27 "2013-10-08T01:11:55Z")
In case anyone is interested, I found the article I was talking about [here](http://www.michaeleisen.org/blog/?p=358). ---
**Author:** ![StGermain](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/stgermain/32/2868_2.png) [@StGermain](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/StGermain)\ **Post date:** [October 8, 2013, 2:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/10-trillion-jazz-album-cd/670554/28 "2013-10-08T02:00:22Z")
> [@Chefguy](#): > > Actually, the listing is for ten _quadrillion_ dollars, so we’re talking real money now. Still not going over $3 billion. StG ---
**Author:** ![simster](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/simster/32/1047_2.png) [@simster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/simster)\ **Post date:** [October 8, 2013, 2:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/10-trillion-jazz-album-cd/670554/29 "2013-10-08T02:20:37Z")
> [@Chefguy](#): > > Actually, the listing is for ten _quadrillion_ dollars, so we’re talking real money now. how much is that in quatloos, newcomer? ---
**Author:** ![pulykamell](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pulykamell/32/3166_2.png) [@pulykamell](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pulykamell)\ **Post date:** [October 8, 2013, 5:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/10-trillion-jazz-album-cd/670554/30 "2013-10-08T05:03:37Z")
> [@Chefguy](#): > > Actually, the listing is for ten _quadrillion_ dollars, so we’re talking real money now. No, it’s ten trillion (US). Check your zeroes again. I see: “1 used from $10,000,000,000,000.00” counting from the right, every three zeroes to the left of the decimal point: “thousand, million, billion, trillion. 10 trillion.” Or, better, 1x10[sup]13[/sup]. ---
**Author:** ![pulykamell](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pulykamell/32/3166_2.png) [@pulykamell](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pulykamell)\ **Post date:** [October 8, 2013, 5:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/10-trillion-jazz-album-cd/670554/31 "2013-10-08T05:05:59Z")
Also, perhaps it’s in [Zimbabwean dollars](http://www.worldpapermoneymart.com/images/zimbabwe/zimbabwe-10000000000000-dollars-2008-p88-10TR-wpmm.jpg). (Yes, quite literally, a 10 trillion dollar note, although they’ve revalued their currency since then [2008].) ---
**Author:** ![Colophon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/f05b48/32.png) [@Colophon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Colophon)\ **Post date:** [October 8, 2013, 1:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/10-trillion-jazz-album-cd/670554/32 "2013-10-08T13:42:45Z")
Anyone notice the CD release date? > [@](#): > > Audio CD (September 11, 2001) It’s all part of the conspiracy, man. ---
**Author:** ![Chefguy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chefguy/32/138_2.png) [@Chefguy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chefguy)\ **Post date:** [October 8, 2013, 3:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/10-trillion-jazz-album-cd/670554/33 "2013-10-08T15:40:54Z")
> [@pulykamell](#): > > No, it’s ten trillion (US). Check your zeroes again. I see: “1 used from $10,000,000,000,000.00” > > counting from the right, every three zeroes to the left of the decimal point: “thousand, million, billion, trillion. 10 trillion.” > > Or, better, 1x10[sup]13[/sup]. Damn, now I have to cancel that check. ---
**Author:** ![Idle\_Thoughts](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/838e76/32.png) [@Idle\_Thoughts](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Idle_Thoughts)\ **Post date:** [October 9, 2013, 12:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/10-trillion-jazz-album-cd/670554/34 "2013-10-09T00:07:27Z")
Moving to CS. ---
**Author:** ![Chicagojeff](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/b19c9b/32.png) [@Chicagojeff](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chicagojeff)\ **Post date:** [October 9, 2013, 3:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/10-trillion-jazz-album-cd/670554/35 "2013-10-09T03:13:40Z")
Thats not the one I’m looking for… had a Larry Coryell vinyl live at Winterland or Montreux… it was Larry in a three piece setting… Bernard "Pretty{ Purdie was the drummer… he did “albert” in the set… it was damn good… been looking for it… no hippy family on the cover… Fairyland? maybe… ---
**Author:** ![Chicagojeff](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/b19c9b/32.png) [@Chicagojeff](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chicagojeff)\ **Post date:** [October 9, 2013, 3:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/10-trillion-jazz-album-cd/670554/36 "2013-10-09T03:14:51Z")
[http://www.google.com/imgres?imgurl=http://www.bsnpubs.com/tennessee/mega/mega607.jpg&imgrefurl=http://www.bsnpubs.com/tennessee/mega/mega.html&h=338&w=344&sz=33&tbnid=ewYipjbomG72JM:&tbnh=92&tbnw=94&zoom=1&usg=\_\_\_Graa2J0mGidjepIkrQpOLxFcwo=&docid=ADgZIs6NOLnuLM&sa=X&ei=D8pUUuiZBpDc8ASqxIHoCQ&ved=0CDUQ9QEwBA](http://www.google.com/imgres?imgurl=http://www.bsnpubs.com/tennessee/mega/mega607.jpg&imgrefurl=http://www.bsnpubs.com/tennessee/mega/mega.html&h=338&w=344&sz=33&tbnid=ewYipjbomG72JM:&tbnh=92&tbnw=94&zoom=1&usg=___Graa2J0mGidjepIkrQpOLxFcwo=&docid=ADgZIs6NOLnuLM&sa=X&ei=D8pUUuiZBpDc8ASqxIHoCQ&ved=0CDUQ9QEwBA) thats it. ---
**Author:** ![ftg](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ftg/32/2801_2.png) [@ftg](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ftg)\ **Post date:** [October 9, 2013, 5:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/10-trillion-jazz-album-cd/670554/37 "2013-10-09T17:44:04Z")
Unlike the usual $10k for a $20 item Amazon listings, I wonder if there is some other reason for this. E.g., 1. List an obscure item for a ton of money. Make some initial posts around the Net about it so it starts to get some attention. Let it go viral. 2. People click on the listing. Start clicking on the seller’s other listings and related pages. (Does Amazon pay affiliates for clicks?) Maybe even start to see your Amazon store rise in Google listings. 3. Profit. ---
**Author:** ![GrandWino](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/grandwino/32/67_2.png) [@GrandWino](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GrandWino)\ **Post date:** [October 9, 2013, 6:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/10-trillion-jazz-album-cd/670554/38 "2013-10-09T18:35:23Z")
> [@ftg](#): > > Unlike the usual $10k for a $20 item Amazon listings, I wonder if there is some other reason for this. E.g., > > 1. List an obscure item for a ton of money. Make some initial posts around the Net about it so it starts to get some attention. Let it go viral. > > 2. People click on the listing. Start clicking on the seller’s other listings and related pages. (Does Amazon pay affiliates for clicks?) Maybe even start to see your Amazon store rise in Google listings. > > 3. Profit. Maybe Larry Coryell posted it himself in some kind of publicity gambit. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/10-trillion-jazz-album-cd/670554.md?page=1)