Pete S

Thanks to everyone who helped with this

THE SATISFACTIONS - TAKE IT OR LEAVE IT - SMASH ISSUE Got so many people asking me about this, I'm supposed to be listing it tomorrow and I was going to stick £75 on it but someone just offered me more than that, whats an honest valuation of this record at the moment anyone? Condition is visually EX- with no scratches but a few marks, play grade is EX+ almost MINT except for the last miliseconds and the run out where you can hear a bit of crackle. Thanks in advance Pete

Just a reminder to look out for the new list tomorrow, cheers. And I've reduced that Frank Beverly. Personally I don't think it's worth more than £125, how anyone can charge over £300 is beyond me, but my mate sees what it's going for on ebay and in sales boxes and tells me to stick a high price on it. I told him it wouldn't sell.

Thought provoking? He just wants attention all the time. Fooled you though.

I'm listing a Montclairs issue tomorrow at £70 - standard price now is about £100 - no way is it worth that.

No, theres "Explosive Rocksteady" which I've actually never had - had loads of copies of "Jackpot Of Hits" - both albums are great. As is The Pioneers, only had that once.

Think we may have to disagree on the LP, I thought it was f*cking terrible Untouchables were The Inspirations - both groups produced by Lee Perry. Don't think they have any connection to The Kingstonians though.

You must be mad!

Been after this, and it's instrumental version ("My Mob" by The Upsetters) for ages and ages - I got the Upsetters 3 weeks back and lo and behold, the vocal turns up on ebay as a buy it now, £60. Might be a little pricey but well worth it.

Catacombs 73-ish.

Theres 2 shops in Germany who do the Studio One reissues, sorry I forgot their names, but they do them very cheap, I once bought about 30 in one go

Kingston Town is actually by Lord Creator and is on the B side of a Clancy Eccles tune. £10 tops. Queen Of The Minstrels, I did have this on blue UK Coxsone but had to sell it, haven't seen one since but would have thought it would be about £80. Easily available as a Studio One repress though for about a fiver.

SELLING FOR A MATE ANY INTEREST PLEASE PM ME OR EMAIL PETE.SMITH@FREEUK.COM DENA BARNES - IF YOU EVER WALKED OUT OF MY LIFE - INFERNO DJ ABSOLUTELY STONE MINT 400 TOBI LARK - HAPPINESS IS HERE - TOPPER EX 275 FRANK BEVERLY - IF THAT'S WHAT YOU WANTED / LOVE - SASSY EX 275 COMING UP, I'LL BE LISTING THESE TOMORROW OR ON MONDAY: SATISFACTIONS (SMASH), CARL CARLTON (GOLDEN WORLD), FLAMING EMERALDS (FEE), SOUL PATROL (HIGHLAND), CISSY HOUSTON (JANUS WD), SEQUINS (RENFRO), BILLY WATKINS (ERA), FLORENCE DEVORE (PHI DAN), DARRELL BANKS (ATCO DJ), MOTNCLAIRS (PAULA), SAMANTHA JONES (UK UA DJ), JACKIE DAY (MODERN DJ), MEL WILLIAMS ( MODERN DJ), TEMPOS (CANTERBURY), AL WILSON (WAND DJ)

It's a weird one that, hardly anyone really knew it and I used to ask 60 to 75 quid for it, last one I had maybe 4 years back, then all of a sudden it went up to 150, and then up again...

Every time I see this record I feel sick knowing I sold mine for £15, and only a few years back too. I had no idea it was rare or indemand at the time. Still, someone paid me £525 for an Owen Gray record last week so it's swings and roundabouts

Don't think thats gonna work for much longer because now that sellers cannot leave negative, the buyer will just leave a negative because of the postage

Yeah I charge more - I charge 15%. But I do all the work. What do ebay do apart from let me post it on their site?

NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I've actually got this record, it's in my 'spares' box which is usually reserved for rubbish! I think it's because it had a little edge warp. Thank you Malik, you are a star.

No it's not that Michael, but thanks for trying!

On the subject of Ebay, Paypal and fees, the amount that ebay take off you is just f*cking phenomenal, I sold that Bari Track for £625, out of that it had cost almost £4 to list it (bold, subtitle included) then they took £55.76 as a fee for selling it, and of course paypal charged £21.45, so Ebays cut was £80 it makes me laugh when they came out with the statement that what people wanted was INSERTION FEES reduces, no we didn't, it was final value fees...and then they went and added anohter 3% or something to the final value fees. Is there still no alternative?

As you can see, I identified the dj version, it was actually off a Dandy Livingstone compilation, it was issued as a 7" under his pseudonym Boy Friday it's got to be someone else...anyway I still need to know what the backing track is if possible

OK this one has got me stumped. This is a DJ version of a brilliant rocksteady track, I'd like to know what the DJ version is but more importantly I need to know what the original song is, it might be called Get In The Groove. Daft thing is, I've obviously got the dj record as I recorded it onto my pc but it's crediting it to Dandy Livingstone which is obviously wrong. The track is below anyway, cheers

I've got one here I was going to ask 500 on. Price guide says something ridiculous like 800.

Oh yes indeed!

This is the one that segues each track into the next, an innovation at the time, and it mentions people travelling distances just to hear "Six by Six". Not rare but a great album. The ones that are rare are the three volumes of Motown Memories, I think Dave Godin may have compiled them. Volume 3 is especially scarce.