Crazy Priced Vinyl On EBAY

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Yeah, and that's just the Virgin Records edition.

Mark G, Tuesday, 10 May 2011 15:31 (twelve years ago) link

even now it would be easy to make one of these...

haha yeah that's exactly what I thought when I saw the pic. looks kind of not from the right time or place tbh

ban this sick stunt (anagram), Tuesday, 10 May 2011 15:46 (twelve years ago) link

It went for £2275 in the end.

Right, where's those acetate blanks....

Mark G, Monday, 16 May 2011 10:12 (twelve years ago) link

"My ex Brother-in-Law's shit record collection..." http://bit.ly/iXMUvq

Barnaby, Hardly, Saturday, 28 May 2011 13:00 (twelve years ago) link

There's some great stuff there but had to say I was laughing so much I had tears rolling down my face.

Cluster the boots (Billy Dods), Saturday, 28 May 2011 14:13 (twelve years ago) link

Amazon not ebay, but still:

Experiment IV / Wuthering Heights
Kate Bush (Author) | Format: Vinyl

1 used from $7,897.10

http://www.amazon.com/Experiment-Wuthering-Heights-Kate-Bush/dp/B003MC4NOM/ref=sr_1_2?s=music&ie=UTF8&qid=1307310295&sr=1-2

Other copies go down to $5.

xhuxk, Sunday, 5 June 2011 21:48 (twelve years ago) link

"My ex Brother-in-Law's shit record collection..." http://bit.ly/iXMUvq

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Mark G, Monday, 6 June 2011 08:40 (twelve years ago) link

Right, I have found it.

Lol, appparently. (sigh)

Mark G, Monday, 6 June 2011 08:54 (twelve years ago) link

three months pass...

has anyone heard these Milton Wright lps? i heard 'spaced' today because i was curious why it was 1500$ and it was so boring. i have so many dollar soul records that are better than this.

http://www.popsike.com/php/quicksearch.php?searchtext=milton+wright&x=0&y=0

jaxon, Friday, 16 September 2011 05:40 (twelve years ago) link

Was his records played by the later northern soul dj's? The guys who now write a lot of the liner notes for the kent soul comps? I like a little modern soul, but most of it sounds like bad philly knock-offs.

JacobSanders, Friday, 16 September 2011 05:52 (twelve years ago) link

i guess one of his songs ended up on one of those strange games and funky things comps. and had that whole 'burned up in a factory fire, only a few survived' stories.

oh, i've heard this one (from the album before 'spaced')

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rGEcvm5EMIA

jaxon, Friday, 16 September 2011 06:10 (twelve years ago) link

Not sure about the £4.00 standard delivery charge here. For this kind of outlay I'd want it delivered to my door by a fucking unicorn.

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Sex-Pistols-God-Save-Queen-Original-1977-A-M-7-PROMO-BOX-/260857651148?_trksid=p4012.m1374&_trkparms=algo%3DPI.WATCH%26its%3DC%26itu%3DUCC%26otn%3D12%26ps%3D63%26clkid%3D3128614179864208049

Science, you guys. Science. (DL), Thursday, 29 September 2011 20:17 (twelve years ago) link

Not sure about the £4.00 standard delivery charge here.

Heh. Well, since a year or two eBay has made it difficult for a seller to put in more as standard delivery. That's why you mostly see the lowest shipping charges in the automated listing, but people in their description adding "soz shipping is way higher but ebay won't allow me to enter it lol".

Young Swell (Le Bateau Ivre), Thursday, 29 September 2011 20:37 (twelve years ago) link

http://collectorsfrenzy.com/Details.aspx?id=200653572256

scott seward, Friday, 30 September 2011 00:29 (twelve years ago) link

Heh. Well, since a year or two eBay has made it difficult for a seller to put in more as standard delivery. That's why you mostly see the lowest shipping charges in the automated listing, but people in their description adding "soz shipping is way higher but ebay won't allow me to enter it lol".
― Young Swell (Le Bateau Ivre), Thursday, September 29, 2011 8:37 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

i put "please contact me for shipping costs" pretty clearly in an auction for a book recently (i don't know generally how much books cost to send like i do for records). but the guy who won paypall-ed me immediately after winning the cost of the book and what ebay allowed me to put for shipping. it was a few bucks under for shipping. i told him this and he was like "can you just let it slide, bro" and i was kinda in a good mood and let it slide, but apparently i'm still bitter about it because i wasted 2 minutes to write about it on an internet forum.

jaxon, Friday, 30 September 2011 00:55 (twelve years ago) link

aw :-)

This happens to me regularly and I can tell you, the "I'll let it slide bro"-feeling goes away pretty fast. It all adds up, too. So it makes for extra hassle getting back in touch to cough up the actual shipping costs. Most do pay up though.

Young Swell (Le Bateau Ivre), Friday, 30 September 2011 09:31 (twelve years ago) link

"Please Note ** Sorry But I Will NOT Ship To Italy**"

!?!?!

mark e, Friday, 30 September 2011 09:58 (twelve years ago) link

Yeah, Italy has a bad rep for people going "hey where's my item?" and reclaiming off paypal/ebay.

This could be the buyer pulling a fast one, or the Ital postal service being bad/insecure, who knows.

Mark G, Friday, 30 September 2011 10:06 (twelve years ago) link

Having said that, I've posted stuff all around the world, and only had one occurance of items not arriving.

Posted the same day to two different countries, you do the detective work....

Mark G, Friday, 30 September 2011 10:07 (twelve years ago) link

Ital postal service being bad/insecure

this is the received wisdom

whiney g. aimhouse (electricsound), Friday, 30 September 2011 10:26 (twelve years ago) link

yeah it has a notoriously dire postal service in general

I don't think I've ever lost anything there but I only really sell cheap CDs so maybe either ppl can't be arsed to quibble over a few euros or they don't look interesting enough to get opened by il postino

the green manalishi (with the big boobies) (DJ Mencap), Friday, 30 September 2011 10:38 (twelve years ago) link

Well, I mostly send LP sized packages, handwritten addresses...

Mark G, Friday, 30 September 2011 10:52 (twelve years ago) link

four months pass...

3. Please stop sending me Email telling me what it worth, you never seen the record in person.

Thank You all for interest in this record, it will remain at the same price until sold.

Johnny Fever, Wednesday, 8 February 2012 01:46 (twelve years ago) link

hahahahahaha

Bo Jackson Overdrive, Wednesday, 8 February 2012 01:54 (twelve years ago) link

What is this Alexander's store label she is focusing on? Is that really something notable?

Evan, Wednesday, 8 February 2012 05:55 (twelve years ago) link

i think it's just the price tag

hilare appendage (electricsound), Wednesday, 8 February 2012 05:57 (twelve years ago) link

That's all though? Just making sure there isn't some kind of rock history at "Alexander's" that collectors would get excited over.

What a dolt, I mean:

http://collectorsfrenzy.com/Details.aspx?id=350513102384

Evan, Wednesday, 8 February 2012 06:07 (twelve years ago) link

I might have had one of those myself.

From http://www.eskimo.com/~bpentium/beatles/intro/intro.html

Covers for the stereo issue that list Love Me Do and P. S. I Love You, among the two columns of tracks on the back, are almost always fakes. Only a couple of authentic copies of these versions are known to exist.

Mark G, Wednesday, 8 February 2012 10:25 (twelve years ago) link

Also, here is a very similar one (same shop pricetag) to prove it is definitely a fake.

http://www.ebay.com/itm/INTRODUCING-BEATLES-SUPER-RARE-VEE-JAY-STEREO-RECORD-1964-/270903229447?pt=Music_on_Vinyl&hash=item3f13173c07

Mark G, Wednesday, 8 February 2012 10:32 (twelve years ago) link

three weeks pass...

Not vinyl, but something of note (Melvins tour van with murals painted by Kurt Cobain)

http://www.ebay.com/itm/150771070206#ht_500wt_927

van smack, Monday, 5 March 2012 22:05 (twelve years ago) link

It probably smells awful inside.

Tuomas, Monday, 5 March 2012 22:22 (twelve years ago) link

aptly-named thread revivalists of our time

Sylv_ebanks (DJ Mencap), Monday, 5 March 2012 22:43 (twelve years ago) link

you know, i don't really care too much about melvins or nirvana, but that's kinda rad. its the kind of thing you'd think the rock & roll hall of fame (something else i don't really care about) would spring for.

scott seward, Monday, 5 March 2012 23:58 (twelve years ago) link

It probably smells awful inside.

don't look at the carpet, I drew something awful on it...

Paul, Tuesday, 6 March 2012 00:52 (twelve years ago) link

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/O-SEIS-SUICIDA-APOCALIPSE-PRE-OS-MUTANTES-GARAGE-PSYCH-TROPICALIA-BRAZIL-/320864768413?pt=Music_on_Vinyl&hash=item4ab507d19d

just for interest: It's got 7 days to go, it's already £500

Mark G, Tuesday, 13 March 2012 15:17 (twelve years ago) link

Oh shit thats Joel! I just saw him yesterday at my store. He's a nice guy, always good at making room in our vinyl section by buying a good chunk of it. Comes in all the time. Though I just put in my two weeks notice so he's another regular I won't get to see as often, yet I foresee myself spending lots of time there as a customer again.

Evan, Tuesday, 13 March 2012 17:39 (twelve years ago) link

two weeks pass...

quite possibly the stupidist thing i've seen in my entire life

Stormy Davis, Sunday, 1 April 2012 20:34 (twelve years ago) link

well, other than Republican opinions about Treyvon Martin. Those are obviously the stupidest. or, really, anything from a Republican. But this is clearly second.

and I thought my Wolf Vostell lp was valuable..

Stormy Davis, Sunday, 1 April 2012 20:36 (twelve years ago) link

at least it got that high through bidding, it wasn't a buy-it-now.

my father will guide me up the stairs to bed (anagram), Sunday, 1 April 2012 20:36 (twelve years ago) link

i really want that uncle acid album tbh and would love to have it on LP but fuck that noise imo.

omar little, Sunday, 1 April 2012 20:57 (twelve years ago) link

from the mps3 i heard -- sure, it's a good record. Not as good as any of the 4 Kyuss records. And i don't even like Kyuss that much.

One thousand bucks.

You could get half the Black Sabbath catalog on orignal Vertigo Swirl vinyl for that

Stormy Davis, Sunday, 1 April 2012 21:34 (twelve years ago) link

four weeks pass...

Mark Kozelek 'White Christmas' & 'Little Drummer Boy' test press:
http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=400294346807

Buy It Now: US $2,999.99

Barnaby, Hardly, Monday, 30 April 2012 09:23 (twelve years ago) link

two months pass...

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=360473125077

$4999? Bargain!

The Eyeball Of Hull (Colonel Poo), Friday, 13 July 2012 07:57 (eleven years ago) link

Convince me that it is (or isn't) ok for me to spend £50 on an LP...

only NWOFHM! is real (krakow), Friday, 13 July 2012 08:24 (eleven years ago) link

It's OK, if you can afford it. But what will you do with it once you have got it?

I get a bit dispirited when I've paid proper money for an LP which ends up getting 3 plays and going on the shelves with the rest. That seems to happen too often.

Tim, Friday, 13 July 2012 08:33 (eleven years ago) link

(These days I have more fun scouring the cheap bins for £1 or £2 LPs which look unfamiliar. I'm just as likely to find something amazing that was as shelling out £££ for things other people seem to want. But that's hardly the point of this thread so feel free to ignore me.)

Tim, Friday, 13 July 2012 08:37 (eleven years ago) link

I've never spent more than £25 on an LP but I could be persuaded to go to £50 if it was something REALLY AWESOME, but that's because I'm OK with just having things on CD (or even mp3) if they are hard to find on vinyl.

The Eyeball Of Hull (Colonel Poo), Friday, 13 July 2012 13:01 (eleven years ago) link

Thesedays, those hard-to-find things get sold on once I've listened and either 'saved' or decided not worth it.

Mark G, Friday, 13 July 2012 13:04 (eleven years ago) link


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