Pete S

I don't think I'm cheap, it's the others who are just crazy expensive

You'd already sold it, I didn't include your price, I'm commenting on the ludicrous price you've quoted JM as having it for sale for, which if true, means that he sells it for £65 more than I do.

This has got to be a joke...

Just sold it actually Mark, 2 calls in 5 minutes for the same record - which I actually advertised 3 days ago (for £25 more)

PETE SMITH 28 JENKS ROAD WOMBOURNE WOLVERHAMPTON WV5 0BL 01902 893569 pete.smith@freeuk.com GROVER MITCHELL - WHAT HURTS - UK VANGUARD MINT £125 SKULL SNAPS - MY HANG UP IS YOU - UK GSF EX £50 Slightest bit of crackle on the silent bits on the intro LOU JOHNSON - UNSATISFIED - UK LONDON EX £80 DONALD HEIGHT - RAGS TO RICHES TO RAGS - UK AVCO EX £100 THE VIBRATIONS - SURPRISE PARTY FOR BABY - NEPTUNE MINT £50 E RODNEY JONES - PEACE OF MIND - TUFF ISSUE VG++ £75 JACKIE LEE - DARKEST DAYS - ABC EX £70 MAURICE McALLISTER - BABY HANG ON - CHESS MINT £40 TOMMY TATE - I'M TAKING ON PAIN - OKEH EX £150 THE HESITATIONS - YOU CAN'T BYPASS LOVE - KAPP DEMO EX £40 MAURICE & THE RADIANTS - BABY YOU'VE GOT IT - CHESS W.DEMO EX £40 JIMMEY SOUL CLARK - SWEET DARLIN' - SOULHAWK W.DEMO VG++ £45 THE MARVELLOS - SOMETHING'S BURNING - LOMA MINT MINUS £75 LORETTA WILLIAMS - BABY CAKES - JOTIS DEMO EX £75 PATTI AUSTIN - YOU'RE TOO MUCH A PART OF ME - CORAL DEMO VG £60 Scruffy looking copy, big radio stamp on label and a bit dirty - plays extremely well THE STINGERS - I REFUSE TO BE LONELY - STAX VG+ £30 Post £2.00 recorded £5.00 registered Paypal at 4% Cards welcome

Well I'd been selling it for £10 quid for ever until someone suddenly decided it was rare about 2 years ago. Punters on the northern scene are such sheep, they see one dealer sell a record for a silly price and start believing thats what it's worth. People cannot seem to see the difference between auctions and set sales. Auction prices are not real prices, they are the result of people bidding against one another and pushing the price up. The problem comes when the final value is taken as that records worth, which is just nonsense.

Couple of points. Firstly, I have never been able to understand the appeal of the i-pod, it's a fashion item and thats that, the Creative Zen M has another 25% more capacity and also can hold 200 hours of film as well as 14,000 music tracks for about £50 less it's ipod equivalent. I was thinking of getting a new mp3 player, it won't be an ipod. Second thing. I was in Virgin records yesterday and the student behind the desk says "did you find everything you were lookijng for" and I said "well to be honest, no I didn't, your reggae section is absolutely pathetic, 2 years ago it was great but now all you've got are Trojan box sets and little else". verbatim that is. Anyway he said that they had been ordered to downsize practically every music section as there was such a decline in sales. This to me is the thin end of the wedge, eventually it looks like there may be no physical product at all and everything will be a computer file. Remember in the 70's when we used to walk around with our latest album tucked under our arms so that everyone could see it? Try that with an mp3.

See that sort of thing is just bizarre to me, people offering to pay for mp3's, if anyone ever asks me for a track I just send it to them if I've got it. I couldn't charge just for a little file like that. (Not saying you do) Obviously I'd charge if it were like 500 or 1000 mp3's.

Anything over £25 for johnny sayles is not a bargain in my book!

Whjy not? They are all cockroaches anyway

I've only ever heard the De-Do side. What a fantastic record. You selling it?

I know it was discussed recently but what should we be paying for postage from the USA for 1 x 45 at the moment, I've been told $8 and $13 this week and both of those seem a bit high to me (especially when some people use second hand mailers so have no cost to cover)

Crap though innit...compared to Bobby Treetop and E Rodney Jones on the same label I mean

It was funny what you said actually...

I sold a WD set-sale on here about 4 weeks ago. It was £1000.

This shop I emntioned above, Goulds, everyone always says that so-and-so was available in soul packs but I remember all the ones I bought being useless. However about 2 months back when my brothers wifes mum died, they cleared out her house and he gave me 30 records that one of the sons had bought, still in the respective Goulds bags, I got an unplayed Derek Martin on Sue and an unplayed Four Voices on Voice (not the rare one, the other one) and loads more, definitely from soul packs.

Don't think I've ever seen the alternate design but I know I've had two swirl ones this year and they've been a bugger to sell. You often find them in collections round here, I've even seen one in a non-soul dealers box at Wton record fair recently, so a lot must have been around at one point (Gould's soul packs I bet!)

Quite often they have no labels to start with - they are played and sold as blank pre-releases, by the time they get a proper release the buzz has died down which is why you see more blanks than proper issues on Jamaican 45's. Over here, a lot of the labels were defaced simply so that rival sound systems couldn't find out what the tracks were. I've got countless records with the title and artist scratched out...even common ones like Desmond Dekker - 007, meaning at one time it must have been quite exclusive

Don't make a lot of difference when I'm playing a 45 year old ska record which has never seen a sleeve and sounds like bacon frying anyway

I'm just on about records I record off the usb deck onto my pc - but if I download albums from whatever dodgy site, I've never noticed that the sound is anything but normal..

Yeah I reckon 60 or 70 now, but this one's a used copy so adjusted the price - was a Wigan spin back in 76, then forgotten

I can't hear any difference at all between mp3 and wav recorded in high quality

The Stingers - I Refuse to be lonely - Stax VG+ 30 E Rodney Jones - Peace of mine - Tuff issue VG++ plays great 70 The Ojays - No time for you - IMperial W demo EX 35 cheers Pete