ILV clubhouse

sounds fair to me

Why are so many people fake bidding on reggae records?

it's a thing...

see also: boogie, frenchmen

i sell a lot of reggae to france. lots of high-priced reggae. they are mostly fine.

okay, that ebay idea of mine was stupid. all i can really do is block locations i ship to. i can't stop people from bidding. and fake people don't care if you don't ship to where they live. cuz they were never gonna pay you in the first place. there's gotta be a way!

there must be an ebay computer program that blocks users with no feedback. or really low feedback. if they bid...

it's my life's work now.

holy f@$k!!! when did technics start costing almost a thousand dollars? when i bought mine back in 96 i paid $1200 for two. i was thinking about buying a new one but geez

fully-rehabbed used ones are around oakland for like $350

i have done so much rehab work on mine through out the years but now there is a low hum and too much static, and the other one just plays too low

you should just get a real turntable. do you deejay?

i mean nothing against technics. but you can get a really sweet audiophile-quality table for under a thousand bucks.

i used to dj but those days are long gone, what do yo recommend

oh where to start...

Music Hall MMF-5

you will think you have died and gone to heaven after using Technics for 15 years

there must be an ebay computer program that blocks users with no feedback. or really low feedback. if they bid...

it's my life's work now.

― scott seward, Monday, April 9, 2012 5:39 PM

pardon if you've tried this already but:

What are buyer requirements?

You can block buyers from bidding on or purchasing your items by specifying buyer requirements. You can block buyers who:
Don't have a PayPal account
Have unpaid items recorded on their account
Have a primary shipping address in countries you don’t ship to
Have reportedly violated eBay policies
Have a Feedback score lower than the number you specify
Are currently winning or have bought 1-100 of your items in the last 10 days (you can specify the number)

To select buyer requirements for all your listings:
Go to My eBay.
Click the Account tab, and then click the Site Preferences link on the left.
In the Selling Preferences section, scroll to Buyer requirements, and then click the Show link.
Click the Edit link.
On the Buyer Requirements page, select your requirements.
Click the Submit button to save your requirements.

To specify buyer requirements for a specific listing, follow these steps:
In the Sell Your Item form, scroll to the Other things you'd like buyers to know section.
If the Buyer requirements option isn't displayed, click the Add or remove options link.
In the pop-up window, under Buyer requirements, select the Block certain eBay users from buying my items checkbox, and then click the Save button.
In the Sell Your Item form, click the Add buyer requirements or Change buyer requirements link.
Select the checkbox next to the requirements you want, and then click the Save button.

i do all that. i think. you can't actually block people with 0 or 5 or 10 feedback rating, i didn't think? you can block people with NEGATIVE feedback which is pointless because you can't leave negative feedback for people anymore.

i had a fake bidder attack some of my auctions yesterday and their account had been started...yesterday. they had no paper trail or violations or anything. they sign up and get an account to fuck with people and then they just abandon the account.

this makes it seem like you can block people with any amount of feedback:

"Have a Feedback score lower than the number you specify"

which is news to me. but i'll check it out. it would basically solve all my problems.

yeah i checked. you can only block people with negative feedback.

this is why i thought i could do what i did. my buyers requirements state that i can block bidders who:

"Have a primary shipping address in countries that I don't ship to"

but now i know that's not true. because i tried it and it didn't work.

i dunno it says

You can block buyers who:
Have a Feedback score lower than the number you specify

but i've never tried or had to do any of that

ebay seems weirdly stuck in the past sometimes. kinda cool in a way, same ugly layout but also could really use some basic things like the stuff you're talking about

"Have a Feedback score lower than the number you specify"

the only options you can click are -1, -2, -3.

even if i could have blocked them the way i wanted to, its too confusing to real people. i'm just gonna do buy it nows from now on i think. seems safer. though i've heard of people fake buying a zillion buy it nows too. which is why a lot of reggae dealers end up giving up and selling elsewhere.

i still like doing auctions! hardly anyone ever does anymore. i think they are fun as long as you aren't selling reggae.

"Have a Feedback score lower than the number you specify"

the only options you can click are -1, -2, -3.

ok yeah that makes no sense

where else do people sell? i guess discogs has a marketplace. amazon?

here's the completed dreamachine btw

http://oi39.tinypic.com/2qvzczq.jpg

best night!

richard davis -- harvest (more amazing bill lee compositions)
don drummond -- greatest hits (thanks ian ca. 2006)
craig leon -- nommos
robbie basho -- song of the stallion
friends
beers
asparagus bread pudding (!)
strawberry lemonade cake + strawberry ice cream (!)
new 30 rock
oh shit forgot to watch the office
thunderstorm (!)
cighs and weedh
so fun!

right right, the thunderstorm was why we didnt watch the office.

and why 30 rock had such an open ending

sounds ill except for the asparagus bread pudding? i am skeptical.

gotta say dudes, record store day is a d-r-a-g.
so much stupid bullshit to deal with.

is it today?

no it's in 10 day or so... not this coming weekend, but next.
but there is a lot of preparation for it. ordering things, paying for things, receiving things, pricing things, finding room to display everything. and it all succcccccccckkkks.
and people are calling everyday asking about what we're getting. and the lines are gonna start early. and we're opening early (not my idea) and it succcccckkks.

in other news,
i am listening to helen's keiji haino records and that is awesome.

i tried to watch killing of a chinese bookie last night but i fell asleep...
someone brought in a bunch of highbrow/foreign/art stuff to academy so i am trying to learn about film. o_O

chinese bookie is good. watch it when you aren't tired.

anyway, now you know how people in real stores feel around christmastime.

yeah, i enjoyed the first hour and a half, but i got too cozy and napped.
will finish it later on. got some other cassavetes shit too. i think the only one of his i've seen before is husbands, which i liked a lot.

i hate christmas too fyi.

Man the asparagus bread pudding was srsly the best part. No one could stop eating it.

I am in a WEBINAR all day learning about cataloging sound recordings and scores. It is actually p awesome.
I just ordered some Pasolini films for my academic library! I like highbrow art films, even if I don't always get them or how to talk about them.

you can just look at them. and hear them.

you haven't lived until you've spent an entire (gorgeous, sunny) afternoon inside, putting together a bed from Ikea.

ikea kan kinda make you wanna die.

I love putting together furniture
I kinda feel that way about the store though, but that's also a lot of stores

you know what is sad? when you go to an estate sale and you dig through all a dude's crap and you know that you would really enjoy hanging out. but he's dead. and his kids don't even want to keep his electric vibraphone

ok granted it does take up a lot of room

oh hey scott, by the way i saw THE BIZARROS last week

I spent the gorgeous sunny afternoon wrestling with a 5.5 HP rototiller, it was muddy but I think I'll get it all done tomorrow.

First time I've tilled by machine in the 12 years I've lived here. We were breaking new ground for some roommates and tilling up spots we'd cleared for ourselves. Tomorrow I'm gonna work on the beds we already have and redo the new plots. The sun is supposed to stay until early on Monday.

My arms hurt and I'm gonna go listen to some early Clock DVA.

you know what is sad? when you go to an estate sale and you dig through all a dude's crap and you know that you would really enjoy hanging out. but he's dead. and his kids don't even want to keep his electric vibraphone

wow. that IS sad and poignant. i've actually been thinking about things like this recently... my kids won't want my records/jah wobble autograph/70s ludwig drum sets/first Orange Juice 45 w/ flexi etc. etc. etc.

also, i love the bizarros. are you saying you saw them live, or you saw the lp?

live, not sure how many of the members were original. they were all old guys though

where? where they good?

DC. they were really good, but Syracuse's THE PENETRATORS were even better. Penetrators had some Reagan babies as ringers though