Ebay, Light Of My Life, Fire Of My Loins, My Sin, My Soul

it's always funny when i sort of gamely big $50 or something on a record, thinking i'm going to splurge, and then the winning bid is like $500.

biD $50, i mean

I had that the other day - really unexpectedly - bid on this Swedish indiepop 7" expecting to win it with a bid of like $30 - actually expecting to win it at like $10 - the fucker only went for $150.

what was it?

It was Youth Will Understand EP by Free Loan Investments. It was probably a good few months ago now, thinking about it. No idea it was that sought after. Some joker's been trying to sell that and the Pretentious Girl EP for £300 each, strangely no-one's biting.

i had an opportunity to buy that FLI 45 back in the day, but i thought they sucked :( oh well

I bought their other 2 releases, course they're not worth anything. Both still in print AFAIK

i don't think anybody knows that this auction site even exists.

http://www.mynotera.com/UNCOMMON--VINYL,category,1873,parent_id,categories

i went thru their listings and i saw, like, two records with bids. what if you gave an auction and nobody came?

That's how I got that Blur singles collection (the zip bag, all the CD singles, you know) for £30

An auction site that never actually took off.

fuck snipers. that's all

aww cmon dogg u dont mean that

fuck them

i mean it

i mean i sympathize w you on the negativity of LOSS but like you may as well hate fastrak

my first ever contact with hstencil in any capacity was about 12 years ago when I sniped him on a pair of Art Ensemble of Chicago lps on the America label ... good times!

he sent me an angry email afterwards

ah for the days when eBay exposed your email address...

i miss his mercurial presence

my first ever contact with hstencil in any capacity was when he cooked spaghetti for me in chicago and showed me his Superbowl Shuffle record. then when i joined ILX he emailed me. ah for the days when ILX exposed your email address..

well, thank you, thankyouverymuch...

http://cgi.ebay.com/ELVIS-PRESLEY-Rock-n-Roll-No-2-LP-1956-HMV-1st-Press-/260634014988?cmd=ViewItem&pt=UK_Records&hash=item3caeff750c

that cover is unreal.

I have one of those, but the condition is well off mint.

Playable but verray scratchy.

a guy just called me at the store to tell me that he is sending me a mailer in the mail to put his record in! that's a first. guess he's had a lot of bad experiences with the post office. can't wait to see it. must be fancy.

that's insane.

i mean i just sent a 200 dollar record to some dude in france and it got there fine and this guy lives in brooklyn. eh, whatever. i started selling records on ebay in 1999 and only once in all that time did someone get a damaged record.

he lives in brooklyn, eh? dare i ask what his name is? i might know him!

a guy just called me at the store to tell me that he is sending me a mailer in the mail to put his record in! that's a first. guess he's had a lot of bad experiences with the post office. can't wait to see it. must be fancy.

― scott seward, Saturday, July 17, 2010 9:30 PM (2 days ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

Yeah, I've had this happen a couple of times. Dude bought five or six albums, "whoa" prices, and sent one back as being 'less than mint' (churlish to argue)...

this guy has some cool stuff up--

http://cgi.ebay.com/Happy-Artie-Traum-Double-Back-/400137918315?cmd=ViewItem&pt=Music_on_Vinyl&hash=item5d2a14176b

^^ a favorite

http://cgi.ebay.com/Homegas-Self-Titled-1970-Hippie-Blues-Folk-Psych-/400137923230?cmd=ViewItem&pt=Music_on_Vinyl&hash=item5d2a142a9e

^^ this one too

http://cgi.ebay.com/Michael-Chapman-Fully-Qualified-Survivor-/400138685591?cmd=ViewItem&pt=Music_on_Vinyl&hash=item5d2a1fcc97

http://cgi.ebay.com/Merrell-Fankhauser-HMS-Bounty-Things-Psych-Orig-Label-/400138683333?cmd=ViewItem&pt=Music_on_Vinyl&hash=item5d2a1fc3c5

TONS of 'regular' rock records, but also cool psych & folk and some private pressings and stuff.

i know that vinylty guy, i've bought from him a buncha times. problem is, he has "fans" and watchers, so stuff that should sell for a lot cheaper ends up going for stupid prices, because idiots that watch his auctions get in bidding wars

i'm willing to bet i'm one of a small handful of ppl interested in his grayson & whitter LP, so i'm hoping i get that one cheap. i put in a comedy bid on the people's victory orchestra & chorus LP but i really don't expect i'll get that.

its sad when i see records that i sell for a buck or two in the store - and that sit there in the store for months - selling for 10 or 20 bucks on ebay. it's kinda why people pack in the store idea and just sell online. but whatever. but seriously, if you can get money for brian cadd or beans records more power to you. looking at the stuff that guy sells is like looking into my brain. i cringe at the idea of starting stuff at 99 cents. i really do. the thought of sending a dollar record to hong kong...yeesh, i would have to have an employee. you know? but it does work. that guy sells 98% of his stuff. and he averages like ten bucks. if i started all that stuff at five bucks i would only sell half of it.

and its funny cuz i don't know the seller - i rarely remember ebay handles - but i was watching one of his records for the last five days.

some pretty sweet stuff:

http://shop.ebay.com/chriscarnahan2/m.html?_nkw=&_armrs=1&_from=&_ipg=&_trksid=p3686

i probably shouldn't have posted that, now we'll be fighting over LPs.

a headscratcher:

http://cgi.ebay.com/Title-Blood-Sweat-And-Tears-Eric-Satie-/270613768055?cmd=ViewItem&pt=Music_on_Vinyl&hash=item3f01d66777#ht_500wt_1154

ha -- even more confusing, the actual record is cat stevens

that is funny.

and that funky guy has great stuff! that's a lot of money on those four pages.

hard to scan the list with all those "Title:"s and "By"s !

coolest cover ever?

http://cgi.ebay.com/COKE-Self-Titled-LP-Sound-Triangle-Latin-Funk-/330455361895?cmd=ViewItem&pt=Music_on_Vinyl&hash=item4cf0aca967

http://cgi.ebay.com/SLY-BOOTS-Notes-Journey-LP-rural-rock-folk-psych-/320572060961?pt=Music_on_Vinyl

^^ this is a nice record.

(so is the ron davie's record he's selling.)

i had that sly boots album for years, but didn't play it much so i traded it to my friend bob and it sat in his store for years and i was always gonna buy it back but i never did. i should have. probably dig it more now. always loved the cover anyhow.

i realize how fascinating that story is...

There's a cheaper copy on ebay now too, but with a beat up cover.

I play the track "Pass Through Like The Lightning" on my show pretty regularly tbh

http://cgi.ebay.com/Glen-Sherley-/200458737841?pt=Music_on_Vinyl

Photographs show the actual item.

It measures about 12 inches across the middle.

good to know.

HAW!

wow, i just held this in my hands.

http://cgi.ebay.com/Lula-Cortes-Ze-Ramalho-Paebiru-LP-ORIGINAL-PRESSING-/180546442612?pt=Music_on_Vinyl

! backstory?

person i know is selling it for a brasilian friend to help the both of them make some money and start pressing their own reissues of rarities down in brazil. worried about their lack of ebay feedback though. and i explained that there is no such thing as a perfect record. great shape though.