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I seem to have a color theme going on this week...

£9,17 todays money says this calculator: https://www.thisismoney.co.uk/money/bills/article-1633409/Historic-inflation-calculator-value-money-changed-1900.html

If you go to your order page on discogs there's a link on top of page that says you need to leave feedback for x number of orders. Click that and you can see them all on one page. If you copy and paste the same words in most feedback it takes a second or less for each transaction. Same thing can be done via the purchases page for stuff you've bought.

You'd still need paypal for international sales.

It depends if paypal thinks it would be beneficial to warn the buyers. I doubt they will. Paypals buyer protection is only valid for regular transactions, not for gifts. I think most sellers ask for gifts because they won't have to pay the fees. The gift option is free for the recipient. As a buyer you lose protection and gain very little. Some sellers have asked for 4% extra on top of the sales price to cover paypal fees.

Lloyd Parks is the only member of the group listed in the soul harmony singles book. And then there's this:

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.