Ged Parker

If you 'sold' a record for someone who had promised it to someone else and their arrangment fell through just let the person who 'bought' it from you have it. Simple enough really I'd have thought.

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Sometimes an event your not even a part of or know anyone involved can make you smile.

Sadly it sounds like Kevin is too late. Could be a customs hold up, if it is be prepared for a big tax bill.

I understand how "The Sharp End of Vinyl" works but people started posting on a three year old thread telling us that their was a definate original.

How many threads do we need on this?

Bob said $1 not £1 though even at £1 i'd buy loads given the opportunity.

Butterfly catches with removable lid. https://www.blackaacoustics.co.uk/flight_standard.htm

Funny how professional designers get stuff like that wrong. The 100 count ones hold the records upright (on their edge if you like) as they should but the handle goes across the lid rather than along its length which would be much more ergonomic. I moved the one on my small sales box the 'right' way.

Swan flight are good yes. I would advise that whatever make you decide on (Blacka are another good maker) be sure that the handle position is right. Far too many boxes when held by the handle have the records stacked upon one another. I suspect you current 200 count box is an example of this.

I still do but would buy more particularly on ebay if the price was more reasonable. I think the most common start price is $9.99 and add postage and I can't afford to be getting 10 a week like I used to in the late 90's.

There was a more recent version too obviously not the one on the tape charted in the 90's I think. Can't recall who it was though.

Glen Campbell maybe?

They're legit so they can't be boots whether you like it or not. At least the copywrite holder will get some of what you pay for them not like the 1,000's of boots on ebay where the bootlegger gets that slice of the punters money as well.

I have avoided comment on this as I do with most on-going auctions but I have to say I find the process you are using odd at the very least. They are indeed your records and you can sell them how you want I guess. However you should remember a deal is only a good deal if both the seller and the buyer are happy with the outcome. Clearly I've cancelled my snipes on your ebay listings as they are pointless. I should say I haven't contacted you anonymously or otherwise and wish you well in your sales, your just using a process that has little or no regard for people who intend to make genuine bids on items they want so I'd rather not get involved. My money my choice you could say.

Yes I'd say. Someone took it from $520 to $680 or there abouts and they didn't win it. All other things being equal its only a matter of the second highest bidder being the one that determines what the winner will need to pay.

Sometimes people don't believe I'm me when they actually meet me such is the strength of the view they form on here.

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You were lucky if you were embraced by the scene as a newcomer. I had to stick at it and prove I knew a Detroit record from a Chicago one before I was accepted. Phil (and others) have made some good points about DJ's getting people up to dance but I have to say some people will just not dance to something unless they know it inside out. You can play a set that would have had them dancing their assess off if they'd have heard it when they first got on the scene but too many now only want to hear what's familiar to them. Not familiar in style, or tempo, or production but so familiar that they know all the f***ing words.

A bruised orange you were lucky! One year my dad got me 'hide and seek' for my birthday. Seriously though that's a Canada Dry Fruit Juice crate not a Schweppes one. I moved enough of them as child labour in my dad's pubs Maybe all that 'bottling up' is why all the tins in our cupboards have the labels at the front and all my records are in their sleeves straight,

It was the '1989, so before Stafford' bit that threw me

Don't you mean 79 Pete?

Not sure about the autograph but what a tune Sweet Thing is. Absolutly superb not 'Northern' by any manner of means but superb all the same.

How about Garnett Mimms - It Was Easier To Hurt Her. That was played as a new release in 1965 well before the term Beat Ballad (or rare / northern soul) was even coigned by Guy H.