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A bit off topic but from your post are you just looking at UK eBay ? You do go on US eBay which doesn't have all the dodgy stuff you mention ? If you have a limited budget then postage from US to here is a slight drawback. Even on US eBay auctions though people seem to pay ridiculous amounts for 45s and albums you can get cheaper elsewhere, and even on eBay itself, if you just look. Recently noticed Metros album finishing at $49 in VG+ condition from a regular well-known seller [whose stuff IMO is mainly flea market material]. I got the same album on same night in better condition at auction for $15.50. And as regards buying crap condition 45s for stupid money https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Rare-Northern-Soul-JOCK-MITCHELL-Not-A-Chance-In-A-Million-I-Got-To-Know-IMPACT/324298089124?ssPageName=STRK%3AMEBIDX%3AIT&_trksid=p2060353.m1438.l2649

All guaranteed refund if not happy VG ++ is still a very nice copy, and VG+ isn't trashed just odd marks. Albums graded cover/vinyl Larry Santos Just a man EVOLUTION [You got me where you want me] VG++/VG++ £15 SOLD Edwin Starr 25 Miles GORDY M-/M-[24 hours to see my baby] £10 Olympics Something old something new MIRWOOD VG++/M- £12 Bunny Sigler Let the good times roll PARKWAY VG++/VG++ [Follow your heart and Girl don't make...] £10 Marge Dodson A lovely way to die DECCA VG++/ M- [Be your baby] £10 Chris Bartley Sweetest thing this side of heaven VANDO VG+/VG++ £10 [loads of great tracks] SOLD Chuck Jackson Needing you wanting you SEALED ALL PLATINUM [I got the need] £10 Isley Brothers This old heart of mine M-/VG++ TAMLA £12 Chi-Lites Me and you VG++/VG++ 20TH CENTURY [Try my side of love] £5 7" Singles Nancy Wilson The end of our love VG++ CAPITOL £12 Caesars Get yourself together VG+ LANIE £10 SOLD Jive Five I'm a happy man M- WDJ UA £8 Demands Say it again M- BIG CROWN [Re-Issue] £5 Volumes Gotta give her love M- AM. ARTS £15 Phil Flowers Discontented VG++ DOT £10 Ambassadors Good love gone bad/ Happiness VG++ ATLANTIC £20 SOLD PayPal :- Modrod52@hotmail.co.uk. Gift or add 3% please Postage £3 for 1st class recorded 45s £4.75 for 1st class recorded Albums Please PM me if interested

I think you can have more than 30 in a pub if space allows ? Which is how events are being held I guess. It's not 50 out in a group. It's say 25 socially distanced two person bubbles As I said just bemused we're getting away with it.

That explains getting away with playing music.

30 but not in a pub or restaurant ? Know about the music and dancing which is why I said don't see how these events are going ahead.

It's just 6 to a "bubble" isn't it. So you can have 20 "bubbles" making attendance 120 ? No idea how we're getting away with having events on. Same rules as a pub ? I did notice guy who posted he was at an IOW weekender mentioned the event was allowed by relevant authority.

Getting on for 40 years ago now so bit hazy. I was thinking of 45s Dave and I bought off Richard with idea to dj. Combinations I'd got off him a little earlier along with CODs. May have been Main Change but think we might have had one from USA. Royal Robins was off Richard. Another I think was Classics on Yan-G. Chris may have bought Classics off us too.

With postage $200 for a VG+ copy. Isn't that what it's worth ?

I'm pretty sure I got it off Richard along with Topics, John & W's and couple I forgot. When sold dj 45s up it went to a Chris I think [who I guess is Plant].

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All records graded under strong light and condition as per SS guidelines. All guaranteed refund if not happy VG ++ is still a very nice copy, and VG+ isn't trashed just odd marks. Albums graded cover/vinyl Larry Santos Just a man EVOLUTION [You got me where you want me] VG++/VG++ £18 Edwin Starr 25 Miles GORDY M-/M-[24 hours to see my baby] £12 Olympics Something old something new MIRWOOD VG++/M- £15 Bunny Sigler Let the good times roll PARKWAY VG++/VG++ [Follow your heart and Girl don't make...] £10 Marge Dodson A lovely way to die DECCA VG++/ M- [Be your baby] £15 Ohio Players 16 Greatest Hits TRIP VG++/VG++ [Love slipped thru my fingers & You don't mean it] £15 SOLD V/A Jumping at the Go Go UK RCA M-/M- £18 SOLD Carla Thomas Memphis Queen STAX M-/VG++ [I play for keeps] £20 SOLD Timi Yuro Something Bad.... LIBERTY M-/VG++ [It'll never be over for me] £40 SOLD Detroit Sound "same" WYNCOTE VG++/M- [Jumping at the Go-Go] £15 SOLD Chris Bartley Sweetest thing this side of heaven VANDO VG+/VG++ £15 [loads of great tracks] Jerry Butler Ice on Ice SEALED £15 [classic album] SOLD Jay And Techniques Apples peaches........ SEALED SMASH £15 SOLD Chuck Jackson Needing you wanting you SEALED ALL PLATINUM [I got the need] £10 Inez & Charlie Fox Come by here SEALED DYNAMO [Tightrope & Never love a robin] £18 SOLD Isley Brothers This old heart of mine M-/VG++ TAMLA £15 Chi-Lites Me and you VG++/VG++ 20TH CENTURY [Try my side of love] £8 Platters I get the sweetest feeling M-/VG++ MUSICOR £12 SOLD 7" Singles Tams Hey girl dont bother me VG+ ABC WDJ £15 SOLD Nancy Wilson The end of our love VG++ CAPITOL £15 Caesars Get yourself together VG+ LANIE £15 Bob Brady More more more.....M- CHARIOT [green label] £10 SOLD Sapphires Who do you love VG+ SWAN £10 Jive Five I'm a happy man M- WDJ UA £10 Demands Say it again M- BIG CROWN [Re-Issue] £8 Baby Washington It'll never be over for me VG+ SUE £25 SOLD Volumes Gotta give her love M- AM. ARTS £18 Phil Flowers Discontented VG++ DOT £10 Artistics Girl I need you M- BRUNSWICK £10 SOLD Manhattans I betcha[couldn't love me] M- CARNIVAL £10 SOLD Johnny Taylor Love on a lease plan M- GOLDMINE promo £8 SOLD Ambassadors Good love gone bad VG++ ATLANTIC £25 Any orders will be posted Monday as I don't want to make repeated trips to PO. PayPal :- Modrod52@hotmail.co.uk. Gift or add 3% please Postage £3 for 1st class recorded 45s £4.75 for 1st class recorded Albums Please PM me if interested

It does have the right tempo for the Lambeth Walk or whatever you do down there when you've run out of Chaz and Dave 45s to play.

Unfortunately not just Discogs.

Or unrealistic Discogs sellers, particularly that demo.

Extremely disappointed with those who have slated William Shatner. You do realise that without this man we'd all be speaking Klingon.

I obviously remember it from odd play at Wigan. Bought it off Richard for £100 around 81/82. Played at Stafford. Sold to Tim in 1999/2000 for £8500.

Thanks Mike. Slightly OT but I guess to do with "alarm" I've mentioned my stepson being advised by 111 first to self-isolate and then a week later diagnosed over the phone as probably having the virus. Last night he felt short of breath and was taken by ambulance to hospital. Examined by a doctor who said he had the flu plus a severe chest infection and sent him home. They have tested him and he'll know the result in 3 days but looks like he never had it in the first place.

Sorry Mike. Going off something like this https://www.livescience.com/how-long-coronavirus-last-surfaces.html, which of course isn't a UK source but is referring to medical studies. But then I missed "we don't really know" I've had a word with myself and will desist spreading anymore alarm.

The immediate effect due to £-$ rate was to make them more expensive if buying from USA. Overall though I have been thinking about it, particularly buying through the mail and the chances of the virus being passed on if it can survive for 72 hours on surfaces. I got a 45 yesterday from Southampton. Found myself washing my hands after handling packaging, then on removing 45 from a protective plastic sleeve and then playing the actual record. I then figured this is bloody ridiculous. If the 72 hours advice is reliable then I guess after being delivered [postman has touched it] if you wait that long to open should be no chance of catching virus ? Because most of my buys are off US eBay which are first sent to a mate in NJ I'm thinking I may stop buying because I don't want to put him in any danger as the situation in the USA seems to be much worse than here. More cases in NYC than in the entire UK. What do others think ?

Credit for the work he put in there and free to use but aren't a lot of these guide prices just fairyland. I just checked latest thing I bought off eBay, Bobby Williams "Its all over". VG++ £150 ! Cost me £20.44. M- Obviously you can pick up bargains but I'd go with finishing prices on eBay [popsike] rather than a figure which seems to have been plucked out of the air. In truth there isn't a best up to date guide. You need to check selling prices across a wide range of outlets and then apply common sense. I reckon Williams would be £40 here ? LATER ADDITION Looking at this guide looks like it is a realised price ? I'm going off the fact he's stated grades. And there are multiple entries for same 45 eg Magnificent Men "I've got news" so IMO a better base to judge values than say Manship or Brown.

I get requests for "Get off" which seems to be by the Umuppets but unfortunately I don't have a copy.

My wife has persuaded me to go to Cleethorpes this year. Main selling point is the fishing lake. Not been fishing for years but used to go a lot. That's the only gear I'm taking. If you or Paul S are going too I could do with some assistance as I think I've forgotten how to use my hook tie. I went to some weekender in France where people were sat around the pool. A fag, a drink in the balmy night air and my mind went back to smoking outside Burnley all-nighter at 3 a.m. in January and suddenly "keeping it real" wasn't that attractive.