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I'd like to see a plumber turn up!

There's a copy on my sales here: https://www.paulsrecords.co.uk/shop/buddy-lamp-my-tears/

It wasn't that long ago so probably not one of the "known" shops, it was about 2001. I used to kid the guy behind the counter that his bootlegs looked real, he had no idea. Went in one day and he had no singles at all, he said a Japanese guy came in and bought everything priced over £30. So he said to him "I've got the rest of the stock at home come back tomorrow", then took everything out of the boxes and repriced it at over £30 - the guy came back and bought the lot.

These are finishing today. Thanks Paul

I've had a couple of nice scores; Yvonne Baker for $50 in San Francisco but the hotel lost my Boss suit so swings and roundabouts. Heard Shifty play The Game is Over in London and went home and had a google and found an issue for $6, asked if they had any more "just a demo, same price". My favourite one was in Hanway Street just off Oxford Street, a shop there used to always have a box which had a mix of cheapies, Motown and boots. I got the Four Tops LP with Teahouse in China Town on it for a tenner then looked through the small box. With the legend "Nice Motown" on the card sleeve was Martha Reeves - No One There ..... Price £5 - Result! Still keep it in the same sleeve. Had loads of good stuff off eBay in the past but bargains are tough to come by these days.

I'm warming to the task though I think it might be measured in years. I don't have a lot of experience with records over a couple of hundred quid so it will be interesting. I think the hardest part will be selling records I want to keep. Anyway, 1st record bought. I'm going to say what they are after I've sold them (if I sell them!). Wish me luck.

In a moment of contemplation yesterday I wondered if it would be possible to buy and sell records in such a way that you could eventually get a really top record for not a lot of money. What I eventually came up with was the idea of starting with a budget of 100 quid and trying to turn this into a copy of Al Williams - I am nothing. I'm too tight to stick my hand in my pocket and just buy one and I do like a challenge, so I'm going to give it a go. I wonder if it is possible? I'll start writing about it and keep a running score as I go along on my blog. If you'd like to play along please pick a different record. :-) Cheers Paul

I've promised myself that if I ever win the lottery I will open a record and coffee shop. I won't care if it steadily loses money and I won't let people in who are not vinyl geeks. I'll have a soulful singles corner just for NS. Bliss!

I've promised myself that if I ever win the lottery I will open a record and coffee shop. I won't care if it steadily loses money and I won't let people in who are not vinyl geeks. I'll have a soulful singles corner just for NS. Bliss!

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That Marvin Gaye LP looks cheap against the copy that went for almost £140 on eBay UK recently. I picked up a copy for £20 the following week but it isn't in anywhere near as good condition. Rare LP.

I once received a 45 where the stiffeners either side were 2 other 45s. If you wonder for too long about the mind of someone who makes that kind of decision you get a headache.

If a buyer doesn't pay you can cancel the transaction and get your seller fees back.

Personally, I love records that have writing on them as it gives some history to them, I don't really care about condition either, I'm not buying them as an investment I want to hear what's in the grooves. Pristine, perfect records are boring and these days likely to be boots anyway. As for people who buy off JM's auctions, some of them must just be lazy rich people - record comes up so just buy it whatever it costs. Completely hacks me off, not envy but just because its such a shit way of collecting. Look at the price of The Ethics - I want my baby back - who but some lazy rich pollock would shell out 450+ for that? I might do a mix of my crackly records :-)

Sorry, but that font is doing my head in, it's almost unreadable.

Only just seen the results and that is an amazing price. I've got a VG+ issue copy that anyone can have for £350. No?

A whole load of LP's up on ebay, some finishing tonight but more going up all the time. Some at 0.99, most at £1.99 [here] Thanks

I only went once, 74 or 75, but I do remember that I thought the music was amazing though I didn't know what anything was. I never went again for a number of reasons; had a poor experience as the niter I went to had someone on live and my ticket turned out to be a forgery ( got in through a fire escape/exit doors); also took forever to get there on the train; worked all day Saturday and didn't do substances so the all night thing was too much. The music must have got to me but I never really got into NS until the 90s. Cheers Paul

Never seen one of those before, thanks. £200 was a good price for a demo too.

I'm going to close this thread as it has just turned into advertising for Pete Smith and JM I was really after personal experiences of trying to sell a big collection personally, without using dealers. Its taken on a life of its own; tax issues, dealers etc etc

I was just wondering about the logistics of selling so many records TBH.

I'm not selling up but a post in Sales got me thinking about the logistics of it. The 8000+ collection would take a year to sell at 22 records a day, every single day. As I said on there, that would almost be a full time job when you take into account answering queries, packaging, posting etc etc Has anyone experienced selling a large collection? Does it turn you into a record dealer? Cheers Paul

Maybe I should be a separate thread, but it always interests me how someone goes about selling a good sized collection like this. The logistics are the interesting thing to me - to sell your collection in a year would mean selling 22 records every single day. That's pretty much a full time job for one person when you take into account answering queries, packaging, posting etc. You should start a blog on how you get on (if you have the time!)

There are quite a lot of these about but most seem to be VG at best, though they play OK. I reckon a clean one woul be 80 to 100 but this sort of tempo is out of fashion at the mo (apart from in my house) so I could be wrong. Seen it up to 200 in the past though.

Ray Pollard at Prestatyn - absolutely superb. He did a duet with Tony Middleton (I think) of "I have faith in you" - so good they sang it twice!