The Kinks’ Dave Davies was surprised and upset when he saw his Rock and Roll Hall of Fame trophy being sold for $12,500 on eBay. The trophy ended up there after it was found in a storage locker auction.
Apparently, Davies hadn’t paid the storage fees for over a year, so the company auctioned off the unit. The trophy changed hands a few times before ending up with its current owners, Colony Records.
Davies thinks he might have lost track of it around 2004 when he had a stroke.
The rocker took to X to reveal that the listing was done without his permission:
“This auction makes me very sad. I lost track of my award years ago and didn’t know where it was. If the person bought it at a storage unit it may have been around the time of my 2004 stroke when I was incapacitated in UK.”
He added:
“I’m grateful to have made a full record from my stroke but it’s a shame that I wasn’t contacted. I’m assuming this is what happened.”
The Sellers And Davies Are Sorting It Out
The rocker then shared an update about the award on X. He wrote:
“We’ve written to the seller and are waiting to hear back. I don’t want to have to pay 12 grand to get my own award back. But maybe we can work something out more reasonable.”
The good news is that Davies and the sellers are in touch now. The sellers have since taken down the listing, the auction was ended early, and someone with the same name as an X user wrote to Davies. It seems that the two are trying to sort it out. Davies wrote:
“I have no problem with Colony Records, they bought it in good faith from a legitimate seller. It had changed hands many times. We are working something out so I can get it back when I’m done traveling. They have been very helpful and communicative.”