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

Were you at least able to sell the record?

I canceled his bid at the last minute and the price dropped from $15.50 to $13.50, there were 4 bidders total so it wasn't a loss.

Afterwards I replied to be more careful in the future and that other sellers on eBay may not be as understanding as I am.

.. or even "around at the time"..

Wanna buy a record shop?

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/On-The-Beat-Records-A-Classic-Vinyl-Collectors-Record-Store-in-Central-London-/221305313500?pt=UK_B_I_Business_for_Sale_CV&hash=item3386d318dc

I think I've been in there.

Assuming you don't get the property itself, cos that alone would be worth way in excess of £300k in that location, that seems a little steep. I wonder how much the rent is.

The bar in that picture, next door to the shop for sale was an early-days London ILx late night hangout.

I thought that might be the case!

"If you’re at the stage in your life when you don’t have to worry about making money but can live the bohemian life"

trans. "loss making business for sale: £300k"

Then again, there was an article in this morning's paper about how Edinburgh's Unknown Pleasures has just had its best ever year due to mad Russians paying top dollar for all manner of common as muck 70s vinyl so maybe it's a good time to buy.

Ian Curtis' kitchen table anyone?

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Ian-Curtis-Singer-Joy-Division-Unique-Personal-Item-His-Kitchen-Table-/190959624297

I finally have my ebay sale up! http://www.ebay.com/sch/delriogirl/m.html?item=291011241002&ssPageName=STRK%3AMESELX%3AIT&rt=nc&_trksid=p2047675.l2562

some of those look great! weirdness with the last item though - says it's the holy modal rounders, but when you click on the link it's john hartford? migh justt be my computer being odd

ian curtis kitchen table - that is a very odd thing to want to buy

I just noticed that and fixed it, after listing 54 items my brain was hurting.

great looking set jacob!

Do you guys place a bid with your top price you'll pay for a record while it has days left? Or do you wait for the last few seconds? I've never don't the former and I'm always surprised by people placing bids by a few dollars, over and over and over. Aside from trying to drive the price up on a record, why bid early?

I should have bid a top price early on a Sun Kil Moon album I wanted. But that's only because it ended while I was away and disconnected from the internet.
Can't be bothered with bidding wars on the beach.

lol I wondered about that John Hartford cover as well.

Jacob, I am interested in the Augustus Pablo, my ILX email works if you wanna hit me up off-board.

I always bid late. I have no idea if there is any actual point in doing it, but that's what I do.

I never thought Lee Hazlewood & Ann Margret's 'The Cowboy & The Lady' would be the most watched record is my sale?? I haven't even listened to it, I guess I should?

If you listen to that one you also have to listen to all the polka.

My sale ends starting tomorrow morning, I'm excited to see what happens. These are records from the last three years digging in Pennsylvania, Oklahoma, Ohio, Louisiana, Maryland, Kentucky, Tennessee, and Texas. I actually had planned to sell 150, but I only ordered 50 record mailers. I don't think I could handle a sale larger than 50 yet.

It's looking my fellowminded japanese will be getting a lot of my records, anyone have tips on what I should charge for combined overseas shipping?

imo taking no profit on int'l shipping means $19 for 1st record + $3.50 per add'l

Thanks, that's what I was thinking, I put 20 in my postings, so I can recover a little handling/mailers cost.

yeah, i think thats the smart way to go!

HA! No one wanted the kiddie Oldfield's the Sallyangie, have to say that was one of the most disappointing records I have ever bought.

this is so cool...

http://gripper.com/records/records

ex-ilxor-related iirc

collector's frenzy is? i didn't know that.

or just the gripper thing?

or maybe they aren't connected at all. i just got to the gripper via collectors frenzy.

just gripper -- think s@nskr!t did something for it?

otm. still does I think.

https://twitter.com/gripper/status/383752870459224064

I suck at selling on ebay, all of the decent private xian records undersold, and the stuff I almost didn't sell did ok. Maybe the market for christian records has busted? I'm planning on putting up 45's, maybe those will do better.

re-list stuff that didn't sell.

also, don't hesitate to start things higher. at least make it worth your while. start everything at 9.95 at least. unless you are a constant seller who always has hundreds of records going in auctions it doesn't really pay to start things too low. unless you want to sell lots of records for 5 bucks. sometimes slightly higher prices for harder to find records are actually enticing to people. not TOO high though. unless you have something that EVERYONE wants. then it doesn't matter.

Yeah, it's whatever two people are prepared to pay for it..

Unless you price it high but fairly..

lol

https://www.ebay.com/itm/182841679894

I cannot find any information about the existence of this variation at all, nor can any of my Beatles expert friends.

free shipping tho, v generous

"Why would anyone go through the process of printing a boot cover, pay the extra expense to emboss the cover, only to put legit records inside — doesn’t make sense. Plus, we’d have seen them before. It must be real."

https://ci.memecdn.com/10737246.jpg

granted it's not ebay & it's $nz but yikes!!! (doesn't even seem to have the insert!)