boba

sounds like it's time to break out the "poll" functionality

I usually would ask but he already interacted with him before shipping and the guy turned out to be a clear scumbag. There's no way he can claim it's an accident after the initial interaction.

That's totally in violation of ebay policy, etc. Usually I would ask for a refund but since you already interacted with him, you should do a paypal claim for excessive postage (it's a specific option). You should them follow up with ebay (maybe call) to see if there's some way to report him. Then after everything is settled leave him a negative. What was the seller's ID?

what was the actual postage cost marked on the mailer? if it's not close to $29 you should do a paypal claim for excessive postage and report him to ebay.

No vinyl should not be exposed to heat as part of the process. But it could be a bunch of things. Sometimes when vinyl is pressed it comes out as sort of worn and pitted looking. I'm pretty sure that's not a result of heat exposure but instead part of the manufacturing process or maybe cheap recycled vinyl to make the record. However, when a record gets exposed to heat, a bunch of things can happen, including a similar pitting effect. Almost always heat damage results in some noise or a "whoosh" sound as the needle passes over the affected area. But it's too hard to tell without a picture, as far as I know, it could be a cigarette burn. Also, occasionally as a part of the pressing process there are like one or two bubbles in the wax (or worse, sometimes paper gets embedded in the wax).

This is nice, I don't think I've heard this one before. I really like "love is missing from your lives" from the dells vs dramatics album

Here is their fee schedule: https://cms.paypal.c...rketing_us/fees Merchant Fees for transactions within the same country: https://cms.paypal.c...t/merchant_fees International fee calculator: https://www.paypal.c...side&countries= Basically it's about 3% if you're within the same country, 4% if you're outside of the buyer's country. So when people say add 4-5% for fees, not only are they breaking the rules by making you pay, they're also profiting off your "fees".

yeah, but people don't listen to, understand, or want to take advice until they get burned...

one of my favorite female group tracks of all time is "la la la ooh", so awesome.

I actually sold off 4/5th of my LP collection a few years ago. Lots of Jazz and Jazz/Funk, etc. got sold off.

My favorite record he did was "this world", holy sh*t it's so good. There's not even a group on it, but this record is so killer:

Do you mean like pitting in the vinyl? It could be so many things i would have to see it to see if I had any idea as to what it is. Can you take a photo?

yeah, never seen a styrene tarpon 45. Lasalle's post-chess pre-westbound 45s are all styrene though.

I don't understand, what is the motivation for splitting off the forum? Like what would happen if you didn't split it off? Who draws the line as to what type of music belongs in one forum versus another? If someone posts about James Brown here and nobody has an answer, they just won't get a response. You're not going to get made fun of for asking the question. If the same people read both forums, you aren't going to be missing answers. Or are you saying that you don't like James Brown and you don't want to see questions about him? Also, if you specifically are into southern soul, isn't there a southern soul email list? Thanks.

There's nothing "completist" about buying the butch and the newports 45, "it's out of my hands" is an incredible building ballad. I have it for the music, not the number. I do admit to buying label #s though.

I have this really trashy slapstick comedy blacksploitation movie where they have an incredible performance of "whatcha see is whatcha get" (it's lip sync but it's awesome). I have it on DVD but can't remember the title right now. They're imprisoned in a dungeon when they do the performance... The movie also had an incredible acapella version of the mad lads doing "don't have to shop around" (and it actually has john gary williams, unlike that black and white 60s clip that floated around youtube that was filmed while john gary was in the military).

I get up in people's faces on ebay, approaching them more aggressively by calling usually works for me if I'm not getting any responses. Sometimes just doing the user information request where you request their phone number (which also emails them your info) is enough to get them to return my messages because they don't want to deal with a phone call.

do you have his phone number? maybe call him?

I've never taken an economics class but I think it's something called "supply and demand." The thing that's annoying to me and that I don't have an explanation for is that I have to look for years for a record, pay like 2x the book price, then a bunch of copies come up and it goes for $10 because you didn't need it anymore.

we must have some sort of ESP brain linkage or something

Why would anyone pay any money for that if they wanted "I'm only a man" as they could get the identical side on a $10 gaslight 45. The reason to buy the butch and the newports is for the killer ballad side "it's out of my hands".

me neither. that was the joke.

I never played this side, this is really good. I will probably steal your exclusive track and play it on my radio show.

They really cracked down on that. There's a reason you don't ever see that today, it's not like the situation of paying fees has changed.

this is correct, but it's also equally against paypal policy to ask people to pay fees, which is what everyone on here was doing before the gift thing.