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If only Universal could be bothered

You don't need a price guide to find out the price of a record you just need to put the record up for sale on here. If it sells - you underpriced it If it doesn't sell - lower the price

If it was an antique, the perceived wisdom is to keep the item as it is because that is where the social history is. But in the same way as people cut out and frame illustration pages from rare books then sell them as that makes more money, the badges will probably make more money individually. Personally, I think the social history is more important but if you are of the same mindset as the destroyers of rare books cut the badges off and sell them individually.

Picked up a cheap spare copy of this so I thought it would be good to trade it. It is Ex condition with only a few marks and a set of small initials on the b side. I can add scans and a sound file if that is preferred. JM books this at £400 (which is barking IMHO) but I think I paid 125 to 150 for my copy. So not sure what value it equates to in trades as I rarely do this. Anything decent considered, I like mid-tempo, uptempo, R&B, anything with male voice and kettle drums, anything really though I don't really go for modern. Been after a Lonnie Lester and a Tommy Navarro for longer than I care to remember, just keep missing them or they are too expensive or I buy something else. I might add a couple of other things to this post tomorrow.

I think the best thing to do is avoid eBay altogether ......... ... so could you please all stay away?

Apparently this boot is rarer than the original Jimmy Soul Clark More expensive too Talk about desperate sales patter .................

Something for the weekend: https://www.mixcloud.com/paultp/here-come-the-girls/

I saw that Stemmons Express and wondered about it. £58 !?! Maybe its a rare boot

I think I should clarify my original post, I meant the prices that people ask for records rather than what you can pick up if you look. I didn't mean the daft prices that some things get bid up to on ebay either. You would think that with dealers being able to put lists up on the internet and reach a bigger market they would want, and have, a greater turnover of records but what has happened is that dealers put records up for sale at the maximum price that they think they can get away with in the hope that there is someone who will pay it. Unfortunately there probably is the odd one but so many sites have the same records up month in month out. I'm still picking up bargains, same as everyone I suppose, but it would be nice to look at a dealers site and think "yeah, thats not too bad, I'll have that" rather than having to sit down with a cup of tea to get over the shock of the prices. And rather than have to see the same record still sitting there month after month. I could give an example of a well known record that is VG+ and on a dealers site for £250, I got one the other day for $95, VG+. Book price for the record is £200 and presumably that means for a mint one. I'm not going to name names because it isn't fair on the dealer (and he might not sell me records in the future) and I haven't got mine yet and it might be a dodgy VG+ . Another example is something that has been advertised on here at £100 quite recently - after hearing it and thinking "that's good, but not a ton" I got one this week for $39.99 (and a demo at that). I would think that are a good few records sitting for sale on dealers sites that I and others would consider buying if they were not at such silly prices. Maybe the flow of good records is slowing to a standstill so people want dollar for what little stock they have? I just know that when I have some money and hear a record I like I will buy it if I think the price is reasonable, otherwise I wait for one to come along and they usually do. So I wasn't just moaning about high prices generally, I was moaning about unreasonable set sale and ebay Buy It Now prices. Cheers Paul

A couple went through ebay earlier this year and went for $300+ Missed them both as I'm too tight

Nice set Benji, I was going to post up the flyer as I thought I still had them all on my old PC but a few from 2000 seem to be missing. I'll have another root about. I'm impressed with your powers of recall though, or is it german efficiency in that you have all your sets filed away?

Tiny Tiny Bubbles! Tune!

Loving Mixcloud! Thought I'd dig out the These Old Shoes anniversary CDs and put them up. These were a set of Bootleg CDs we put together from each years DJs' selections and then gave away to everyone who attended the anniversary in January. They look a bit stale now but at the time they developed into a bit of a competition between the DJ's to put something a little "different" on there. Anyway, the first one (Jan 2000) is below. Dj's from 1999 were: Simon Penfold, Pete Smith, Kim Styles, Martin Gavin, Paul T-P, Jo Wallace, Roger Stewart, Keith Rylatt, Martin Thomson, Alan H, Shane Cosgrove, Mark Freeman, Paul Temple, Paul Dunn with the last selection from the club. https://www.mixcloud.com/paultp/these-old-shoes-anniversary-cd-1-jan-2000/ Happy days!

These are finishing about 9 am or so tomorrow. Looks like I'll be giving them away or keeping them

Round and round, got to be a wind up .... no need to ask really

Depends how good they are.

Its probably easier to list what it isn't and then whatever is left is what it is.

I know record prices are something that are tough to work out as you only need one buyer willing to pay what you ask in order to sell a record, but at the moment it seems that people are putting ever more ludicrous prices on records in the hope that somebody will bite. Ebay (US & UK) is full of Buy It Now listings at double or treble what I would think is a reasonable price, particularly for records in poor condition. Without highlighting specific examples (no need - use google), this is also true of some UK web sites where records are again up to double the price they should sell at IMHO. Do people not want to sell the records or are there enough people daft/rich enough to just pay anything for a record they want? I don't mind coughing up for a record but I won't pay a silly price just to get hold of something. Is it just that I'm a tight Yorkshireman or does anyone else feel record prices are silly?

IMHO that is a barking price! I thought it was about 100?

Thanks to this thread I found mixcloud too! I've used podbean (seems to have disappeared or at least my podcasts did), divshare and soundcloud before but mixcloud seems to have got it right - a social media listening only platform, free and plenty of space. I put my last mix together using turntables and a mixer linked to a hi-fi stack which in turn goes to my PC. Switch audacity on to record then play records fading them in and out, you can plug a mic into the mixer and talk b*llix as well (From Detroit to Chicago .... ). The 20 bloke tunes mix has been listened to by 45 people since I put it up here and it is spreading about through facebook and mixcloud. What an odd thing this internet job is! https://www.mixcloud.com/paultp/ https://www.mixcloud.com/paultp/20-bloke-tunes-in-a-set/

I have wondered whether I need a new price guide or not, Price guides are fairly inaccurate but do give an indication regarding the obtainability of a "newtoanignoramuslikeme" 45. I thought the inclusion of bootleg information into a price guide is trying to do too much with one book, an indication that it has been booted (hasn't everything now?) is all thats needed. I'd really like to see a separate, well produced bootleg guide containing all the various matrix info and scans, to be used alongside the price guide. I'd also like to see the price and bootleg guide as some sort of app I can put on my ipad rather than have to keep referring to a book (so 1970's!). Perhaps if you buy the book you could be entitled to the app? Can you imagine how good it would be to link the bootleg and price guides to ebay?

Some of those scans are amazing, thanks for posting. You do wonder how LPs like "Red Jones Steeerikes Back" got released in among that lot on the Motown label. What on earth is on that LP?

I wish my Jeanette had cost me a tenner. Bloody love it though and I'm amazed that loads of people say it is crap. I remember Dottie and Millie at 30 on loads of lists and I kept promising myself I'd get one and then one day it went to a ton and the week later doubled. Still hacked off about that as it isn't worth a ton despite being a great double sider. But you're right about it being hard work getting records. My Yvonne Baker cost me $50 in San Francisco but I looked for records for a week and had less than a fifty box full at the end and the hotel lost my Boss suit so I paid for it in one way. So I'm probably crapper than you at finding records I did find 6 copies of Ace Spectrum at between $1 and $4 and sold them for £25 - £30 when I got back, plus a few others. I probably only kept about 3 of the records I found selling the rest to fund buying records. (My missus was at a convention so I went with her and so the trip didn't cost me much) I found that when I was closer to the scene when I lived in London in the late 90's, I got more records cheaper because I heard them earlier. I remember hearing Shifty play The Game is Over (to a not very full floor) and the next day found an issue on a US record shop web site for $6, Iasked if they had anymore and they said "just a demo" which I got for the same price. I sold the issue for £50 a few months later and kept the demo. I don't get so many cheap records now because I don't go out and so I only hear stuff when it has been played for a while and gone up in price. Note to self: start going out again!

Aaaahh! it all becomes clear (possibly). If you are setting up a night in competition to other local nights, it isn't a surprise that the people involved won't give you the time of day. If you are adding to a long list of other local nights, firstly there probably isn't any demand, secondly I hope you have deep pockets.

I remember Djing once when I turned round from the decks to find someone (female - though that may be irrelevant ) rifling through my play box. When I objected (strongly) she said to me "Why are you making such a fuss? They are only records"