Marc Forrest

FABULOUS aint the word!

yes mate, got your pm. actually you seem to be located very near to my home base. we (a mate of mine and me) will have our bi-weekly record jour fixe at my place on tuesday so youre welcome to that (will pm you details) ...and yes, quite a big fresh and healthy scene over here...just got back today from soul surgerys 10th anniversary in leipzig where the was a group of 10 travelling berlin soulies.

hi john feel free to contact me, also we have our upcoming event on may 12th if you like a dance ;)

thats right steve, and the lisa mae take seems to be the one en vogue currently..bit of a buzz around it.

hi there, bought off you in the past via ebay, welcome aboard.. just searched for your finished item, make sure to list as soul or even northern soul next time in order to achieve a much -MUCH- better price

absolutely correct.

Sorry bob, dont know what you mean.

of course not! me neither...its just that one could easily imagine it being like that...ermmm....LOL

Is it just me, but I don´t understand that whole lenghty argument about what the top bid was at all ? I mean, does it really matter who bid how much and what his/her hihest bid was ? I mean, its a bit like ging to a peep show isnt it ?! It sold for 8501 USD. Full stop.

oh yes, me..most of the time. thankfully...!

Brilliant

Uh yes, happened to me before as well..expensive experience

agreed seb, a great tune indeed. I once had the pleasure (?) to dance to it when Tim Brown played it at the Hip City a few years ago ... what a record! Marc NB Hope your fine by the way, you would have loved our Copenhagen revival night at the last Hip City LOL

..goes to proove my "theory" that theres not that many people (left) willing and able to shell out K`s of USD or UKP on the real high end items...one, two maybe four worldwide aint enough when two of them already have or dont want the item in question. if another copy of the cod´s shows up it will sell for considerably less, now that nyc has a copy.

yes, noticed that myself recently. since a two or three months...posibly start of the year they have switched to gls as their new partner. your story reads like a nightmare..I would have gone crazy.

the amount of packages send around the globe or just inbetween one country must have trippled if not more over the last five to ten years. mostly because of the increased amount of online dealings. this plus the fact that most postal services these days hire low-paid and un-trained people generates the ever increasing amount of problems...namely parcels (and letters) going missing. love it or hate it, its part of the deal it seems. me I hate it LOL Marc (currently still waiting for a parcel send from new jersey in january..)

didnt realize...as a lookalike ? used to sell indeed some big records when they got pressed, at least stopped playing them, but with the evergrowing speed these titles get re-released these days I would be left with only a few records if I would have continued this philosoph... so I`ll keep my la salle run complete LOL ...but hope you get a copy offered of course. wasnt there a vg copy going thru ebay maybe three months ago ?

we do what we do best nev, we concentrate on them semi- and unknowns. still around and we get them cheap. you are a very good at that as well mate ! just got one thru the post yesterday and won another last night...yummy yummy.

nev hit the nail on its head...its with wrongly listed or badly adevrtised listings such as the COD`s that you are still very likely to get a bargain. Unless of course somebody posts a link on a forum such as this. I will never get my head around why they do...obviouslly the people in question cant be collectors and are not really interested in obtaining the record in question as they owuld keep quite otherwise of course. so it must be something psychological I can get because I have no phd in psychology...

LOL plus 8,175,131 other people

nice one. at least I know its in good hands

...to think I sold my original for about 10% of that ... and it even had autographs of all (!) band members on it

another copy in germany and one in asia.

one of those records that more or less hadnt really had any development in price for the last ten to 15 years. compared to other records of less qualitybut same level of rarity that made ridiculous price jumps in said period of time a price jump for this awesome and archetypical detroit 45 was long over due. not that I like it but simply a fact.

post in germany is sadly not what it used to be anymore. since years I am having a po box. when the german post stopped to have their own offices in favour of having licenced/franchise "offices" in petrol stations, super markets and newsagencies (part of globalization affecting your every day life I guess..!) I ended up with a po box in the backroom of a local newsagency. It was when I noticed more and more post adressed to other parties arriving in my po box that I started worrying same thing will (..must) happen to some of my post as well...currently missing two packages that are looong overdue (over a month), a uk seller did send me a package in september which never arrived. this plus the ever increasing greed of our customs will let me more and more decide on ups or fedex as postal options for more dear items. as a sender I lost three packages in more than 20 years, one in germany, one to england (although this was found again by the royal post ... only to went lost again) and one to the us.