Pete S

Latest news: £705

Paypal £517, cards & cash £90 = £607

That's a great story and it's obviously typical of the man and it's why I wanted to do this, and I don't know where he is today but Simsy suggested doing it weeks ago so credit to him too, I'll post a new total up soon, thanks guys and thanks everyone p.s. can someone go to Tesco for me as I'm too busy doing this now!

Brilliant, thank you Andy (& Gary)

Thank you sunbeam and everyone else, I have thanked everyone personally in reply to paypal payments, never mind Red Nose Day, we could all pay a quid and have to wear a black leather right-on glove for a day

Just to update. 23 people have donated so far, how great is that for a christmas eve dinner time? We have £417 in paypal, £70 I've took on cards, and £20 I've put in on someone else's behalf. £507.

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Keep watching the top right of your screen Drew..

Thanks, everyone! Have also posted out to my mailing list so there's another 1800 people reading it, tell your mates, we might be able to sort this before John gets back on and bollocks me. £274

Yes on the paypal page, you click SEND MONEY and there are two tabs, PURCHASE and PERSONAL, if you pick personal it should let you send as a gift though this can be temperamental as I sent 75 to someone yesterday and it charged me 2 quid something.

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£200 so far

I've started a topic in All About The Soul, if everyone could have a look at it it would be nice. Got £200 in so far...

Hi, I wasn't going to do this but sod it, why not: many of you who get my lists, especially those of you in the Uk, will know John Porteus better known as Johnny Fingers. This guy is one of the nicest blokes on the Northern scene, has a phenomenal collection and is a top bloke and DJ. He helped me out in a time of real crisis and he'd never even met me before. Anyway from reading inbetween the lines, it looks like he may lose his house in january and is having to sell his beloved records so I just thought I would try and see if I could do anything about it, so, begging bowl in hand, I am going to ask anyone who knows John, if you can spare a fiver, a tenner or even more, could you donate it so's at least we can give him a helping hand? I should have done this weeks ago but I didn't, but it's been playing on my mind ever since. If you could spare anything for one of the nicest guys in the scene it would be wonderful, pay it into my paypal account pete.smith@freeuk.com and just mark it Fingers, I'll hand over every single penny and show everyone the receipts so don't worry about him not receiving it. (If you haven't got paypal you could always do it via card through me, I have facilities, you'll get a receipt :-)) I really apologise to anyone who finds this sort of thing offensive or in bad taste but it's the only way I can think of to help out a mate so just bin it if it's not applicable to you, but if you can help, it would be a wonderful gesture for Christmas. thanks for reading anyway best wishes pete smith planet records

Can someone get John down the pub so I can put this out of the constraints of this topic and all over soul source before he realises? Any advice?

This situation is f*cking ridiculous and it's been doing my head in for a few weeks now. There's one of our mates here in trouble and nobody's doing anything about it. Anyone on here who knows John could easily donate 10, 20, 30 quid or more, I'd be happy to collect it via paypal and then hand it over, Simsy suggested something like this a few weeks back but we never did anything about it and I think it's time we did, Come on, surely at christmas it's the least we could do? John helped me when nobody else did. Anyone want to take part in this?

Anyone who is depressed, please take up Simon's fantastic offer, there's never been a truer word spoken than a problem shared is a problem halved. A lot of the problem is just making the first step to actually talk to someone. This is the first christmas that I can remember for a good 15 years that I haven't had problems with either children, cars or money, and I'm thankful for that. Lots of us know what it's like when depression takes hold and it feels like it's impossible to get out of that hole. Try and talk to somebody, please.

Hey if you need a car, or anyone needs a car, I've got one sitting on my drive doing nothing, pay the insurance and anyone can borrow it save it just sitting there! MOT'd for a year, taxed, Suzuki Grand Vitara 4 x 4. I thought it was going to fail it's MOT so I went and bought a new car and guess what, it sailed through

It is, thats why I put the link up

No that's "Yodelling" Pete Smith. I'm "Moaning" Pete Smith

He must be cos they were all sent special delivery!

no, I know, didn't mean it to come across as if I'd taken offence if it did..

people always say that, so when I do get a copy, thats what I sell it for, tell a lie it may have been 275, but it was less than 6 months ago and it was to someone off here, so nobody can accuse me of not putting my money were my mouth is.

Is this the most bumped sales ad of all time?