Modernsoulsucks

A £2 starting bid

Aside from all of that, it doesn't look or sound like a Detroit record to me. Come on ! It's round with a big hole ! I thought it was common knowledge it was West Coast which is why I upticked your post.

Just thought you'd wade in with that one did you ? And surely "birth sleeve" ?

I did and if it wasn't for such gullible buyers my ternover would be a lot less.

So that was you ? I knew someone was orcestrating that site behind the scenes.

Meh ! I've been running a site for the sale of extinct seabirds for 40 years and let me tell you madam it's a great auktion !

All guaranteed refund if not happy VG ++ is still a very nice copy Albums graded cover/vinyl Olympics Something old something new MIRWOOD VG++/M- £10 Jackie Lee The Duck SEALED SPARTON [Canada] £15 Marge Dodson A lovely way to die DECCA VG++/ M- [Be your baby] £10 Chuck Jackson Needing you wanting you SEALED ALL PLATINUM [I got the need] £10 Isley Brothers This old heart of mine M-/VG++ TAMLA £10 Frankie Knuckles It's hard sometimes VG+/M- USA VIRGIN DJ 12" [sleeve a bit bobbly due to water damage] £10 7" Singles Jive Five I'm a happy man M- WDJ UA £5 Pretenders I wanna be/Hearts were made to love M- CARNIVAL £25 Archie Bell I can't stop dancing R/W DJ M- ATLANTIC £10 PayPal :- Modrod52@hotmail.co.uk Gift or add 4% please Postage £3.50 for 1st class recorded 45s £5 for 1st class recorded Albums Please PM me if interested

I once saw an Oldham Tinkers album in Rochdale but then I don't get around much.

Do seem a tad unrealistic but then I listen to this gem. And I begin to think that the buyers of Lyndell and Simon each got a bargain if the alternative is this Ides of March/Blood Sweat & Tears soundalike on offer elsewhere at more than twice the price.

Thanks lads. I was wondering too.

It's a great record of which I have four different copies but I guess overplayed in some venues.

Sorry not for me. No melody, poor vocal and beat ain't right.

I see nothing nothing amusing in this. Us collectors agonise over Waitrose or Sainsbury's bags. I believe Ady Croasdell recommends Harrods but then he always had delusions of grandeur. I use an old make-up box off the wife. It has a mirror in the lid so I can tart myself up inbetween sets.

Noticed a M- Silhouettes selling for around £1100 this week on US eBay which is far less than JM auction copy last week.

I didn't know Shifty was that eBay seller, but yes makes sense to me.

I must be missing something with that Knox 45. Sounds like a routine Wilson Pickett track to my ears. Other side has a nice lilt but vocal group ? Sounds solo to me. I googled to find it went unsold on UK eBay for £800 just over a month ago from seller Alannealeplumbing. https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/NORTHERN-SOUL-45-FUNK-45-LEROY-KNOX-THE-MISTAKES-I-MADE-MEGA-RARE-GREAT-DANCER/303842051587

J J Barnes "It's killing me"

Leaving aside whether you'll find a lot or a few, my advice is either to send them to yourself before you come home if too many to carry. Some seller over there will give you an invoice. 100 45s at 10 cents say or whatever amount cutting down charges [if any] at this end. From experience charges can be random. I didn't pay anything on my last lot from USA. Similarly if you bring some back get an invoice too to present to customs at the airport. I'm not sure what value you can bring back without being liable for charges.

£5409 more than I sold a copy to Richard for ! Still he bought Flash McKinley at the same time for £70 so I figured a bit of discount wouldn't go amiss.

All guaranteed refund if not happy VG ++ is still a very nice copy Albums graded cover/vinyl Metros Sweetest One RCA M-/M- [Since I found, I'll never forget you] £75 SOLD Olympics Something old something new MIRWOOD VG++/M- £15 Jackie Lee The Duck SEALED SPARTON [Canada] £20 Linda Jones Hypnotised M- / M- LOMA £40 SOLD Major Lance The Monkey Time OKEH M-/VG++ [couple of light marks] £15 Rita Graham Vibrations SEALED TRC [My cup runneth over] £20 SOLD Rufus Lumley "same" RCA M-/M- [Stronger than me] £20 SOLD Marge Dodson A lovely way to die DECCA VG++/ M- [Be your baby] £15 Roosevelt Grier Soul City M- / M- RIK [In my tenement] £25 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 £15 Frankie Knuckles It's hard sometimes VG+/M- USA VIRGIN DJ 12" [sleeve a bit bobbly due to water damage] £10 7" Singles Soul Merchants Talking about you girl WDJ VG++ TRI-CITY £75 SOLD Jive Five I'm a happy man M- WDJ UA £5 O'Jays I dig your act M- BELL £20 SOLD Jackie Wilson Haunted House M- BRUNSWICK £10 SOLD Artistics Nothing but heartaches YDJ M- BRUNSWICK [date written both sides on label] £15 SOLD Astors Candy M- STAX £15 SOLD Archie Bell I can't stop dancing R/W DJ ATLANTIC M- £10 Sultans I wanna know VG++ ASCOT £75 or near offer SOLD Anthony Raye Give me one more chance VG++ WDJ IMPACT 1030 £20 [one light mark] SOLD Visitors I'm gonna stay M- DAKAR £8 Spidells Hmmm with feeling darling WDJ M- MONZA [nice group Northern] £15 Gifts Lovin' you M- BALLAD £5 Don Gardner & Checkmates Cooking M- SPECTACULAR £12 Intertains Gotta find a girl VG++ UPTOWN £8 SOLD PayPal :- Modrod52@hotmail.co.uk. Gift or add 4% please Postage £3.50 for 1st class recorded 45s £5 for 1st class recorded Albums Please PM me if interested

I'm confused too to be honest. I've got no old packages here so I can't check a declaration where I was charged in the past but I think charges were broken down into VAT, duty and PO fee.

From reading that RM link if the seller doesn't declare under £39 you would be liable for import duty and I guess a fee to collect it. Sometimes of course stuff just gets through without charge. Luck of the draw. There does seem to be import VAT and customs duty. Two different things ?

In this day and age you may as well consult chicken entrails.

Well we are all different. I wouldn't have anything less than EX/M- in my collection. I would go without. And everything I buy is NM /M- so plenty of records around in that condition to buy I haven't got. I take your point about the rarities. At one time I wouldn't have a non-original but I've slowly come around to getting legal re-issues of 45s I'm not likely to find or be able to afford. Not that I wouldn't buy to sell a poor condition rarity if it was really cheap but people are throwing big money at such items now.

Yeah, I don't get it either. I look at his lists and lucky to find a VG+ grade on both 45s and albums and yet people bid as if M-. And as you say more than what you could get them for elsewhere with a little patience.