Who Needs Enemies With Friends Like These,the Other Side

[billysbag]

This is a response from reg due to his computer being shagged.

just got back off me hols to find my name(reg fradgley)and the good name of derek mead (soulmine) has been dragged through the mud.

offered pete smith my record collection of 500 pieces at a set price.pete did not offer me anywhere near my value.

never was there any shake of hands or agreement on price.pete smiths price was just over half of my valuation.

pete phoned 2 days later with a final offer that was still nowhere near.pete did not speak to me at that time but left a message with my wife.I could not have said yes to his offer because i didnt speak to him at that time.

The idea that he would have to sell a reggae collection to buy this is wrong. he told myself and a friend that he had already begun to sell the reggae collection to make ends meet,or words to that effect.

I then spoke to derek mead at soulmine about the sale of my collection.He came to my house the same day and after a quick scan of some of the records agreed my asking price immediately.

i found derek to be an honest straight forward dealer.

the idea that i pitted one against the other in a dutch auction is not true.pete did not ever offer me my asking price and in return i did not agree a deal with him.

no hand shake.!!!!!

I hope this can now be "put to bed" and i can get on with mylife and derek and pete can get on with theirs.

from some one who still loves this music and always will but cannot put up with the constant back stabbing and animosity that now envelops the scene in this area.

REG FRADGLEY on billysbags computer

[Harry Crosby]

This is a response from reg due to his computer being shagged.

just got back off me hols to find my name(reg fradgley)and the good name of derek mead (soulmine) has been dragged through the mud.

offered pete smith my record collection of 500 pieces at a set price.pete did not offer me anywhere near my value.

never was there any shake of hands or agreement on price.pete smiths price was just over half of my valuation.

pete phoned 2 days later with a final offer that was still nowhere near.pete did not speak to me at that time but left a message with my wife.I could not have said yes to his offer because i didnt speak to him at that time.

The idea that he would have to sell a reggae collection to buy this is wrong. he told myself and a friend that he had already begun to sell the reggae collection to make ends meet,or words to that effect.

I then spoke to derek mead at soulmine about the sale of my collection.He came to my house the same day and after a quick scan of some of the records agreed my asking price immediately.

i found derek to be an honest straight forward dealer.

the idea that i pitted one against the other in a dutch auction is not true.pete did not ever offer me my asking price and in return i did not agree a deal with him.

no hand shake.!!!!!

I hope this can now be "put to bed" and i can get on with mylife and derek and pete can get on with theirs.

from some one who still loves this music and always will but cannot put up with the constant back stabbing and animosity that now envelops the scene in this area.

REG FRADGLEY on billysbags computer

Believe you me my friend, ITS NOT ONLY YOUR AREA,that is the victim of CONSTANT BACK STABBING & ANIMOSITY, its countrywide, it just makes me wonder we are all after all GROWN MEN & WOMEN nowadays, this comment is not aimed at anyone concerned with this problem just the soul scene as a whole

[Pete S]

Reg what you've written above is utter rubbish and is not what happened.

I made you an offer, you said you'd think about, the next day you upped the price so the message I left with your wife that I was NOT INTERESTED but if you chose to sell them for my original offer, you can always ring me.

I hear nothing else til YOU leave a message on MY answerphone telling me you want to sell them again for what I offered in the first place. You said another party - soulmine - had been in touch but they hadn't got back to you which is why you were accepting my offer, you also told me you needed the records to play out on the forthcoming friday and could we do it on the following saturday, I said yes because it'll give me the week to get the money finalised.

Now you tell me which bit of all of that is untrue.

n.b. I often sell pieces out of my reggae collection 'to make ends meet' - this time I sold a massive chunk of my rarest ones solely to help finance this deal.

p.s. just to jog your memory further on the conversation we had on the saturday when we agreed this sale, you asked me if you could keep 3 records back that you wanted to frame, one of them being a Major Lance columbia demo that you'd bought that week from either Will Johnson or Soulmine. Now why the hell would I make that up?

Edited August 5, 2008 by Pete S