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

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!!!!!

i'm selling everything :( moving to nyc with two suitcases.

oh well in that case, let's drink a beer when you get here.

cool. i will fill the suitcases with beer

are you prepared for american beer or are you a german beer only kinda guy

cuz we can get german beer here.
but it's probably not as good.

as at home.

If any place is going to work really hard at it though, it's Brooklyn.

ha yeah i've seen new york's beer gartens.

i love all beer unconditionally, with the fire of one thousand suns.

http://assets.nydailynews.com/polopoly_fs/1.190556.1314065329!/img/httpImage/alg-olde-english-102010-jpg.jpg

shipping like $100 worth of 5 1/4" dos games to germany this week

AWESOME!!!
INFOCOM????

Nah, I only have one original infocom game, and that stays on my "preserving our precious cultural heritage" shelf along with my marble box lucasarts

lucasarts lucasfilm games

Are you lazerwolf&*???

GOD DAMNIT PEOPLE OF EUROPE.
THE U.S. RAISED RATES ~MONTHS~ AGO AND YOU'RE STILL COMPLAINING ABOUT IT!

"how many items can i add for the same shipping cost?"

ZERO, BRO.

there are some nice country 78s on ebay right now...

http://www.ebay.com/itm/classic-1935-Mississippi-fiddle-NATIONS-BROTHERS-Bankhead-Blues-Vocalion-03118-/151077417137?pt=Music_on_Vinyl&hash=item232cea70b1

no, I'm not lazerwolf but I like that guy's style

woke up to a saved search email for BIG CHIEF HENRY'S INDIAN STRING BAND "Cherokee Rag"/"Banks Of The Kaney" on VICTOR. Underpriced by abour $120, buy it now for $80, of course it had sold...

EE- condition

I would of never guess this to be a $$$ record!?
http://www.ebay.com/itm/CYBILL-SHEPHERD-Vanilla-PRIVATE-PRESS-Peabody-LP-MINT-/380703398153?pt=Music_on_Vinyl&hash=item58a3b0d909

wild.. i know there's another cybil record that sells for, like, $20-30 sometimes, but that one i've never seen.
funny.

jamil nasser on bass! wow. and phineas newborn. cool.

i know, with those dudes i kinda wanna hear it...

imagine how much it would have gone for if you could read the f'in description. damn dude.

my dad used to take me to see jamil play with harold mabern and george coleman. he was so amazing. he's on some of my fave records. the stuff he did with ahmad jamal is great.

Damn it, my offer of $20 was rejected. What is wrong with this guy?
http://www.ebay.com/itm/310724923768?ssPageName=STRK:MEBOFFX:IT&_trksid=p3984.m1427.l2649

$899.00 and we'll talk

This kind of thing really angers me. At best this record would sell in an auction for maybe $10.00 with the top repaired by tape and it says more seams are split. It's a lounge record from New Orleans, no fuzz or psych moves. He says soul/funk, but come on. Frankie Brent had a few 45's on different major labels in the 60's doing R&B/popcorn that are mildly collectable. In the 70's played at hotels and bars, still playing 60's songs in a cheesy lounge style. I mean even one of the most sought after lounge records by JC Ann Trio only sells for $250 at best. The weirdo Jerry Solomon has sold for $1000, but those have been hyped by Paul Major since the 80's. What is this guy thinking. Does he even know his records?

i got a copy of this gem:

http://www.popsike.com/Nick-Apollo-private-lounge-psych-Woody-Allen-HEAR/170565038604.html

That looks good!

the shuga records dude is RIDICULOUS...

Ohhhh it's shuga. Yeah I wouldn't put any effort into that. And as far as genre description most sellers I see are a step closer than MySpace genre accuracy if anything.

what's up with people emailing you before an auction is even over to send you a lowball offer? like, just wait to see if it doesn't sell before offering me below my opening bid, dude.

and you know, if it doesn't sell, im happy to keep this ragtime record for my own self!

reggae people would always offer me half of what a record was worth. i ignored them.

But.. but I can give you $XX cash right now

Had a dude try this one last night with <6 hours to go:

"I wish to withdraw my bid please.. I just won a purchase for a similar item. Hope you understand, thank you."

His bid was eclipsed fortunately, but also thankfully eBay now has safeguards/seller protection to prevent shit like this from getting out of hand.

yeah, that's ridic -- don't bid on two copies of the same record until you know you've lost one. or if you're prepared to buy two copies.

(ebay ppl have it easy in that regard. there are two copise of the skillet lickers 'liberty' 78rpm in two different mail auctions right now -- and i want that record, cuz it's really great, but i'm not gonna bid on both copies cuz i don't want to own both copies.)