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And there was I thinking he wasn't going to comment any more (as per his earlier post) I don't even have a veyron anymore. In these tough times I've had to downgrade to a Lamborghini Countach

Supply and demand. Exactly what drives the whole of our economy. It;s not just records it's everything. next you'll be saying that someone should be able to buy my veyron for th price of a skoda

I wasn't justifying anything. I don't need to justify anything to anybody

If I only had a tenner I'd have more money than sense

FFS. I have already said that I put the "laugh" comment as I was embarrassed that I hadn't read the description when I put the bid in as I was suffering from over indulgence. People who know me would have recognised my sense of humour immediately. I then continued due to the fact that loads of others on here, including you, have obviously had a humourectomy.

Well if I have then I apologise unreservedly. As far as buying records I want, then money is no object. Provided I have that money in my Paypal account. Money I get from selling records stays in my Paypal account and is used solely for buying other records, so I don't look upon it as costing me anything. As for what doubles I've got. What are you after? I might just be able to help.

And as for knackering the auction. It shouldn't even be up for auction IMO. OK so I should have read the description, I admit. But you dont expect records on EBay to have big chunks missing. And if the record was very beat up but intact and playable then $888 would have been a fair price to pay

In no way was I smug, and I never said I was a discerning buyer, in fact I'm not at all. And if people want to slag me off for what I do then I will attempt to defend my corner

I admit I was a bit of. F*ckwit for not reading the description properly. In my defence we had had a poker night after work and I was a little tired and emotional. You didn't call me a criminal but there seems to be some intimation that paying what others consider to be OTT prices for stuff is somehow wrong or immoral

But the point is that a record (or anything else for that matter) is worth whatever someone is willing to pay. If I want a record I will pay whatever I can afford to pay to get it. And if by doing so i f*ck it up for someone else, tough sh!t. Nothing wrong with that. Just because I can and do, does that mean I'm somehow less of a collector than anyone else? I've been buying records seriously since 1978 (admittedly back then I couldn't afford hardly anything). And now, due to my good luck that some of the stuff I got 2, 3, 4 copies of (through hard work digging in the US for many years) are worth many, many times what I paid for them I can buy stuff I only ever dreamed of. Does that make me some kind of record collecting criminal ?

What so just because I bought records cheaply over decades and have now sold some doubles etc at a huge profit thus having plenty of Paypal funds I have to not buy what I want because the country is in a recession and other people can't afford to? I have built my collection over 30 odd years and what I do with the money I raise from selling bits and pieces is absolutely feck all to do with you,

No. It was only me who removed my bid. thereby it drops all the others down

I for one have never really cared about condition. I would obvioiusly much rather have the best condition copy of a record that I can. But, provided, it plays I would rather have the record than not and upgrade where necessary later

To be honest, I didn't even look at the detailed pictures just the one on the main listing and put in a bid. It was only later when the awful realisatoion hit me. Luckily someone else outbid me

Oh OK. I only ever look at the list thesevdays when I'm selling. Must be different for buyers. I will stop commenting on this thread now. Got a moose head to hang anyway

No idea what this is supposed to mean? I don't have money to throw around. And even if I did I wouldn't do it in a "supermarket". What's a "supermarket" anyway?

I did nt say that I'd pay big money for stuff to hang on my wall. I have one big record hanging on a wall which is nakkered (Tipton) but I didn't pay big money for it far from it. I bid on this record without reading the description and tried to make light of it as I felt such a tw@t about it. The list of bidders is visible on eBay when auctions have finished so it would have been apparent how much I had bid. Mind you even if I had have bid on it to hang on the wall, how would that be obscene? I am absolutely sure thad most of the others who have bid on this, like me just got a rush of blood to the head and didn't read the descriptions properly.

People are, thankfully, free to spend their money on whatever they want. I buy records that I want and never pay more than I am willing to. I used to go to the US several times a year buying records and bought tons of stuff at next to nowt. Many duplicates etc which I have now started selling at a healthy profit, so I now buy out of those profits mostly. To be honest though, I didn't actually read the description on this one or I wouldn't have bid. I'm so happy I was outbid

I wouldn't have considered it a waste. And it wouldn't cost me a penny. I've got quite a few $ in my Paypal account.

No. I bid $888 day before yesterday and got outbid yesterday

It's not £600 only about £560. It would be worth that though, surely? I could drill a hole through it and put ot on the wall like a similar shape Lester Tipton I have.

Sorry mate it's cracked Hope you find one.

I bid $888. But mainly as a laugh. If I won it great, if not so what?

Have an issue in EX and a WD in VG+. Either can be yours for a tenner

I have one of these available. Will check condition, and get back to you