It's a beautiful accordion. I have the post card of it that came with the raffle tickets. I don't think it is worth anymore than a new ACADIAN or BON CAJUN of any other type of wood though. Good luck bidders.
Starting at $2000? This is bad ebay strategy - if you start with too high of a initial bid it tends to keep people away. They should have started off much lower, and hoped to get the low bidders hooked on auction fever and keep bidding up. There is a psychology to auctions that they seem to be unaware of.
It is a very nice looking accordion, but it won't be getting any bids from me!
There's a strategy to it... A certain psychology...
Of course, I've had my eye on that Soileau & LaFleur 78 on there...
And it goes without saying that for a paltry $306.53 I coulda had a Dennis McGee "Disez Goodbye A Votre Mere/Allons A Tasson", too...
2 bids, up to 1625 now. I emailed Larry on the 12th suggesting that they lower the starting bid to get a bidding war going. I wonder if at 2 grand the reserve will still not be met now that the starting was lowered by 400.