Crazy Priced Vinyl On EBAY

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

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".

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

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.

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.

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

!?!?!

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.

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....

Ital postal service being bad/insecure

this is the received wisdom

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

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

http://www.ebay.com/itm/Beatles-introducing-Beatles-LP-Sealed-/330524746292?_trksid=p4340.m1374&_trkparms=algo%3DPI.WATCH%26its%3DC%252BS%26itu%3DUCC%26otn%3D7%26ps%3D63%26clkid%3D6172686349591087745

Haaaaaa

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.

hahahahahaha

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

i think it's just the price tag

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

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.

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

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

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

It probably smells awful inside.

aptly-named thread revivalists of our time

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.

It probably smells awful inside.

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

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

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.

http://www.ebay.com/itm/UNCLE-ACID-AND-THE-DEADBEATS-Blood-Lust-DIE-HARD-Lim-50-Electric-Wizard-Ghost-/170807262762?pt=UK_Records&hash=item27c4e7fe2a#ht_500wt_1132

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

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..

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

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

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

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

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

$4999? Bargain!

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

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.

(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.)

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.

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

I'm with Tim.... finding obscure nuggets in the midst of crap in bargain bins is my biggest pleasure in record buying....

I'm with Tim.... finding obscure nuggets in the midst of crap in bargain bins is my biggest pleasure in record buying....

this is my world.

tis the best part of music buying ..

What genres do you guys get the best success doing that with, though?

Old house music, you can find gems for $1

you can get great country records for a buck or two apiece.

Yeah, 1970s country keeps on giving the value. It continually amazes me how good some of the records by neglected c-listers can be. You have to be prepared to buy some stinkers though, they're often indistinguishable from the gems.

When I started collecting records, getting on for 30 years ago, 1970s reggae was similarly proper cheap. I wish I'd had a bit more money back then.

man, the idea of cheap seventies reggae just thrills me. i wish. almost all reggae records, save some classics that have been pressed/booted a million times, are just plain hard to find in the states.

i love when people stumble upon my reggae 45s. its like they are dreaming. where am i, they say? pinch me. i could just put it all up online and make more money, but i'm nice.

you kinda have to be a reggae dude to appreciate them though. and those people don't come around every day.

around here i'm forever picking up weird and wonderful post-punk and new wave stuff for a euro or two...

shame i'm not into soca, as a local shop has recently dumped hundreds of soca 12"s in their bargain section for a euro a pop (correction, probably a good thing i'm not into soca..)

I didn't buy it. Yet.

I greatly enjoy trawling secondhand collections for gems amidst the mundane too, but this instance is in the obsessive completism category, which is rather different.