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You're a reputable seller with a high profile within the online soul community. Most sellers are not in your position. Because adding it on top is annoying. If a seller needs to compensate for the 4% it should be included in the selling price.

Scam e-mails also use actual paypal links. The only way to tell if the message is real is if they use your name exactly as you entered it on their site when registering.

As a buyer I'd prefer not to use the gift option. Buyer pays fees anyway so the difference is only that the buyer protection is not valid. Nice for the seller though. I think there will be more of these e-mails coming to sellers. Too many sales transactions are being passed off as gifts.

Those are test pressings, not demos. I can't remember seeing demos with handwritten labels from any record company.

A repairman can keep that amp alive for decades. Very few amps have parts that cannot be replaced.

I'm not buying much these days. Buying a record cleaning machine destroyed my bank account. But a week ago these arrived:

The discogs page has a lot of different versions: https://www.discogs.com/label/34533-Invictus?genre=All&limit=500&page=1

Portugal.

A collection can easily take over your life. Mine is under control I think. But then I mostly collect cheaper tunes and not necessarily the most sought after ones. I try to weed out titles from my collection on a regular basis so it never grows too big. Luckily I manage to reduce purchases when I need to. The music is the most important but I do get a buzz out of finding new stuff, especially records that seem to be obscure. I'd be collecting something anyway, so why not records? Even if they can get expensive there are other collecting habits that are worse. Without the records I'd probably collect art. Records take up less space and you can buy more for less.

If a 4 feet drop is too much the record is badly packed. It takes more abuse than that going through sortting systems and being thrown in containers along the way.

For simple low-price ease-of-use products you can usually buy old vintage amps. Loads of quality at a low price, and no need for a preamp as they usually have built-in phono stages. For recording you just need a cheap cable from the amps rec out to the pc's line in.

There are several ways to do it. This is the classic: https://www.keystrobe.com/keystrobe/discs.html Basically a strobe add-on ;)

Technics is great for DJs, but if you want to just play your records a belt driven turntable is more bang for buck. Audiofile decks are mostly belt-driven because you get less noise from the motor when it's not plugged right into the platter. If you plug the turntable into your bose system you will probably be happy with most turntables except the really cheap china decks. If the bose doesn't have phono plugs you'll need a phono preamp between the turntable and the bose.

I have the 3rd edition of manships price guide. It's so useless I haven't bothered to buy any of the newer ones.

Some sellers add small amounts to the shipping cost, probably depends on their local shipping rates. I can usually get four copies sent for $8 within Europe. Yes, as long as I don't consider the item to be too rare, cheap or in-demand. Usually not. I add cheap records to my wantlist in hope that the seller has one or more of these in stock. If you go to the list of copies for sale ( https://www.discogs.com/marketplace?release_id=2504692 ) the number of items on your wantlist will appear in the "seller information" column as a link. This way you can see all the wantlist-items the particular seller has in stock. Having a big wantlist will make it easier to find records to add when you're placing an order. (If the price is good I'll order the copy I was looking at even if the seller doesn't have any of my other wants.)

Skin I'm In is a good album. Almost like a lost Parliament album. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YxFTssM_eG8#t=43

On discogs I usually add cheap records to my watchlist to try to save on postage. They make it easy to do just that.

Not sure if it's new but it's incredibly annoying. That and the automatic currency conversion.

Candy Carroll (aka Carolyn Franklin) did a great version of Hank Williams Your Cheatin' Heart on Double L. One of my favorite records. In other news: How about weird soulish country done by a strange c&w singer? A strange and wonderful record for those of us who like weird 45s.

There's a FB group dedicated to cheapies here: https://www.facebook.com/groups/THECHEAP45RPMRECORDGROUP/ Not for 70's and up tho.

It reminds me of something else... But don't know what.

You can still sell them for £15 each, but not quickly. The last one sold on discogs was March this year. It sold for £20 (NM). Previously it has sold for as little as £10. There are currently eight copies for sale: https://www.discogs.com/marketplace?release_id=1919529

^This is true. I'm constantly amazed by the choices my buyers make and have learned that everything should be listed. Guessing what will be in demand is pointless, just list everything on discogs and forget about relisting and paying fees for items that are unsold. As a bonus, if you are a collector, the discogs database will grow and details about different records (and prices) will be easier to find.

You don't need a gadget, just cables. At least if your amplifier has a tape-out or similar.