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

definitely get tracking. and insurance. you gotta cover your butt. i charge 15 bucks flat worldwide but if a record sells for over a hundred i pay the extra shipping to send it priority with tracking. which is like an extra 15 bucks usually. i don't mind paying the extra money cuz the last thing you want is have someone say they didn't get a $$$ record. because there is nothing you can do about it and ebay/paypal will just take the price of the record from you. you have no rights in that case.

yeah, i mean, if yer sending a hundred dollar record it makes sense. i am not abt to pay $15 extra for something that only sold for $25 tho. ya know whattamean? there goes all the profit.

no i never do that. but i've learned the hard way to send pricy shit securely.

ebay does not do anything to help the seller. My dad has been stuck a couple of times selling internationally, but fortunately not for anything too expensive.

you can always ask someone: look would you pay an extra 15 bucks or whatever to make sure it gets there? some will. if they don't want to, then you'd better do it yourself. discogs is good for that. you can negotiate with people and ask them what they want to pay for before they send you money.

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=330811577399

tired of discogs

everyone watch it and tell your rich hippie friends plz

least favorite thing:
getting outbid notice in the email after getting you did not win notice.

today's victim: a scarce-but-not-expensive nicholson's players 78.

really hope this phish record gets a couple more bidz

14 bids is a lot of bids!! I'm sure it will.

or maybe...

whoops

probably should have set the reserve so i would break even hahaha

this is how we learn guys

you should never try to out smoke a phish fan.

The cover has been taped on the bottom and has some sort of liquid stains on the bottom and the record has some scratches and is a bit dirty and needs to be cleaned.

Chubby Checker's "Your Twist Party" on Parkway Records. record has some scratches, a couple are deep on one side, so don't know if it will play or not. THERE IS NO COVER FOR THIS ALBUM!

http://www.ebay.com/itm/Chubby-Checker-Your-Twist-Party-Parkway-P-7007-NO-COVER-/271093790626?pt=Music_on_Vinyl&hash=item3f1e72f7a2

$10.78 Economy Shipping

oh jeez. i won an auction for a Roxy Music 2lp bootleg at a good price (no other bidders). the guy had shipping listed at $8.75 or something. i emailed to see if the standard $4 media mail was an option, and he wrote back that he's not familiar w/ that but he'd check at the post office. a week went by, and he then replied that the post office told him they cannot accept anything w/ an LP's dimensions as media mail... so i gave up, and just went w/ the $8.75 shipping (lp was at a good price). three weeks pass, nothing. i write to the guy, and he said he was waiting on record mailers, but since i wrote, he figured i must be in a hurry (!) so he packaged it in a different box. i feared the worst. lp arrived last week, actually packaged well (it better be, for $8.75) BUT ONE OF THE LPS HAS A BIG SCRATCH THAT SKIPS.

kinda boring story, i know.

no no i was on the edge of my seat

i'll be sure to report back soon w/ the thrilling story of how i resolve my feedback on this transaction.

i am waiting for a japanese guy to pay me for a funk 45. then i can buy more 78s.

"ATTENTION: THIS IS PICK UP FROM ME ONLY (IN LONDON, UNITED KINGDOM)...BEFORE ORDERING SEND ME A PM TO MAKE ANY ARRANGEMENTS TO PICK THIS UP IN PERSON IN THE COMING MONTHS...DO NOT ORDER WITHOUT DOING THIS AS THE ORDER CANNOT BE COMPLETED THROUGH POSTAL / PAYPAL CHANNELS...THERE WILL BE NO DEALING WITH THIRD PARTY CLOWNS FOR THIS..."

now i'm picturing a hungover clown driving to his third little kid party of the day. a clown's life. its no picnic.

i was really hoping to swing by and pick of the record afterward, but NO

http://pds.joinsmsn.com/news/component/mdtoday/201208/14/20120814142014_5029e00ec7949_1.jpg

really hope this phish record gets a couple more bidz

― 69, Sunday, October 21, 2012 3:39 PM (2 weeks ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

14 bids is a lot of bids!! I'm sure it will.

― JacobSanders, Sunday, October 21, 2012 4:01 PM (2 weeks ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

or maybe...

― scott seward, Sunday, October 21, 2012 4:43 PM (2 weeks ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

whoops

― 69, Sunday, October 21, 2012 4:48 PM (2 weeks ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

probably should have set the reserve so i would break even hahaha

― 69, Sunday, October 21, 2012 4:48 PM (2 weeks ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

this is how we learn guys

― 69, Sunday, October 21, 2012 4:48 PM (2 weeks ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

postscript:

dude never paid, i moved it back over to discogs for $700, and it sold the same day. lady was stoked, paid immediately, and i shipped it fully insured today.

i hate deadbeat ebayers but that dude was a blessing in disguise~

i had one dude who didn't pay on a $5 underworld 12" and then claimed he did pay and actually had received the record, but i still had it! it was like something from 'lost highway'. record nerd versh.

That's awesome pete!!

:D

what are your guys' policies on shipping with insurance?

always? sometimes (monetary value/international destination)? never?

Or better yet, does USPS raise an eyebrow if you declare an item for $10 on the customs form and then insure it for $50-100?

Here's the story:
I've got a guy in Germany claiming he hasn't received a $75 45rpm I shipped from USA 4 weeks ago. He has a 1000+ ebay rating. I sent it uninsured.

ask him to wait a few more days.
i had a guy in spain email me because he hadn't received his records in a month and they turned up the same day he wrote to me. this seems to happen often/

Thank you for the reply Ian.

But back to the first question, now I'm paranoid and feel like I should be insuring every overseas package, what's your guideline?

USPS normally doesn't care what the custom form says so "Vinyl record" and "$10" should be fine but someone tell me if I'm wrong when the insurance variable is in the equation?

Otherwise don't attribute any issue to custom form details- I've only heard of issues when it goes to Brazil, personally.

there is no postal law that says you can't insure a ten dollar package for more than ten dollars.

Do you always use insurance Scott?

Is that a threat?

Seriously though I feel like you can write anything you want on those customs forms insurance aside.

i usually only insure stuff if its pricy. or if someone asks for it. but hardly anyone ever asks for it. if i'm sending something that is $100+ to somewhere in the states i will pay for priority shipping + delivery confirmation or signature confirmation. that's usually good enough. if its to europe and over a hundred bucks i'll sometimes pay for faster/trackable shipping and insurance. would never send anything $$$ overseas without tracking/insurance after a couple of bad experiences years ago.

is it appropriate during the paypal dispute process to tell someone that, while they seem to be completely truant about mailing records, you really like their new record a lot?

see, this is what it's all about. bringing joy to people in england. or something:

Hi,Record arrived today only six days after paying you. Thats what you call excellent service from the other side of the world. The record and sleeve is better than a great copy it looks like i have just bought from my record shop back in 1977 such perfect condition very happy, I tried to win god save the queen that would have been nice never mind.I will now leave 105% feedback.Thank you,

Or better yet, does USPS raise an eyebrow if you declare an item for $10 on the customs form and then insure it for $50-100?

Here's the story:
I've got a guy in Germany claiming he hasn't received a $75 45rpm I shipped from USA 4 weeks ago. He has a 1000+ ebay rating. I sent it uninsured.

― Jersey Al (Albert R. Broccoli), Monday, January 7, 2013 2:17 PM (3 weeks ago)

He got it today, 2 months to the day after I shipped it. Major relief on my end.

http://www.ebay.com/itm/Calexico-Spiritoso-LP-NEW-2013-Record-Store-Day-Release-Ltd-Ed-3-500-w-CD-/251266311602?pt=Music_on_Vinyl&hash=item3a80a3a5b2

imo it's weird to have the price sticker still on the LP. weirder to be attempting to flip it for a mere $5 profit.

Funny, they should have only spent $21 - $24 on it retail though.

This stuff is so silly:

" VOYAGER " by SPACE NEEDLE

WOW!!! In researching this little gem on the net, I was pleasantly surprised that it is a true RARITY that seems to be on everyone's TOP MOST WANTED LP LIST. This album is a LOST TREASURE in the genre of INDIE LO-FI POP, EXPERIMENTAL, PROG, POST-PUNK. I repeatedly found nothing but PRAISE for this home-recording effort by the duo of JUD EHRBAR (vocals, keyboards, drums) & JEFF GATLAND (guitar), a product of NYC's ZERO HOUR label with connections to SCARCE & VARNALINE.

Are all of the words in caps from the second sentence down entered madlibs style into some ebay-vinyl-seller program that processes this thing at the end?

From this:

http://www.ebay.com/itm/SPACE-NEEDLE-VOYAGER-LP-1995-NY-indie-duo-Lo-Fi-Pop-SUPER-RARE-vinyl-SCARCE-/370806974250?pt=Music_on_Vinyl&hash=item5655d1672a

got my first unhappy punter. apparently i sold him a bootleg. ha.

refunding him, but trying to decide whether to have him post it back too.

how much would he have to pay to post a properly packed record from the US to germany?

$18.50 or so.

ugh. thanks.

guess i didn't realise how lucky i am with deutsche post. costs me €4 to send 2 lps.

buy my crappy funk, dylan second pressings and youngbloods records! http://www.discogs.com/seller/caek.

don't sell your youngbloods records!!!!!