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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!

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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!

I think you can write this off to "time and place" To my non-wiganed ears it sounds like something from The Benny Hill show :-)

Try and keep your emotions in check with this one ............. (all OVO for those that are bothered ) https://www.mixcloud.com/paultp/enough-to-make-a-grown-man-cry/

Gonna try and get along to the next one of these as I've never been and it is only a 5 min walk away. Normally clashes with my sailing but the next one is pre-season.

That's appalling, if Royal Mail have returned it to him as undeliverable then either they are at fault or he addressed it incorrectly. In the first case he can claim the postage amount back, in the second he's at fault so should repost at his own cost. I can see why he's used international signed for (ebay/paypal) but it doesn't cost £9 unless you add the insurance which he doesn't need. Very poor practice.

I got a mini-disc in the late 90's (I think) and when I got a mini hi-fi stack I made sure it had a mini-disc too. I remember going to Cleethorpes one year with a small sales box and before going I recorded the whole lot on to mini disc. When people didn't know a tune I asked if they would like to hear it, most looked blank and cast around for a deck, some thought I was taking the mick. Quite a few looked in amazement when I pulled out the mini-disc and a set of headphones. I numbered all the records to match the track number so I could whizz straight to it. Ahead of my time. I haven't used it for a while but might start recording again, they are still making the discs, just not the players.

I doubt there is anyone who has DJ'd who hasn't had weird requests and abuse at some time or other. I was always a bit shocked by how nasty people can be for no good reason. I think I've posted this before but Jo W & I did a set at a large, long running venue in the North West a while ago and we had a rammed floor for the full set (one guy even ran over the table tops to dance to one record), the promoters were really pleased with us and we were applauded at the end. But we played the last one and a half records under a non-stop hail of abuse from some pissed female who couldn't quite get that we couldn't do her request because one record was spinning and the last record was queued up and about to start before we handed over. Afterwards, whilst basking in the self satisfaction of a set well done, a couple came up and said something along the lines of "That wasn't too bad but we like to hear something a bit rarer when we go out" The walked off without waiting for a reply. Eh? Finally, Jo came back from the toilets having been stopped on the way by someone who said "Can I just say, your set was sh*t" Beggars belief TBH. We've discussed with other DJ's and thought it would be worth putting a book together.

Is the new high postage putting anyone off? I've seen three records I would have bought today but didn't because the postage was $14 to $17 per record (more than the records). Not from the same seller. How annoying. TOPICS MERGED