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Hi. I have the following records for trade, in various conditions. If you inquire about one I can do scans, recordings, and a visual grade: Vontastics - I'll never say goodbye - Satellite Carol Mogan on Born (rough copy) Barons - True story of love - Esprit (unknown 60s northern) Parakeets on Big Top Georgettes - Hard Hard on Yodi Soul Shakers on Triangle Antoinettes on Karen Sy Risby, Chuck Flintroy and the Night Train on 6th Avenue (rare and good northern 2-sider, manship auction item) Falcons "has it happened to you yet" lupine Brilliant Korners on Modern I collect group harmony soul, uptempo (northern) down to slow (sweet soul) from the early 60s through the mid 80s. I have a lot of records so I'm mainly looking for obscure records or known northern records that I might not have yet because they're expensive. Also would take cash offers but I'd rather get something I need. If you have some unusual title / number by some unknown (Black) group to offer me feel free to offer it. Here are some known northern titles I still don't have: Ascots "love" on Miradon Cody Black "mr blue" D-Town Butlers "love your pain runs deep" on Sassy or Gamble Coasters "crazy baby" atco Frank Dell "he broke your game wide open" Valise Fabulous Jades on Rikka Wade Flemons "two of a kind" Ramsel Ann Heywood on Hondo Jades on Night Life Keni Lewis on buddah Masqueraders "do you love me baby" Wand Johnny McCall on Satellite Parliaments on Golden World Sherrell Bros on Currison Steptones - lonely one - diamond jim Temptones - Good Bye - arctic Tokays on Brut Topics on Chadwick Kenny Wells on New Voice Ella Woods on Merging I'm actually looking for a zillion more items, feel free to offer me anything that is a rare or obscure group record. If it's a common or crap record I'll probably know but I'll be polite and if you aren't sure I might really want a record that you think is nothing. Especially looking for unknown sweet soul group 45s. Also I understand that items vary in value and I might have to put multiple items up or cash to even out a trade. Thanks for your interest. Edit: will also consider off condition records (even ones that skip) but don't like cracked records. Thanks.

I definitely would say that if an unplayable copy of Frank Wilson (or one with a huge warp) came up for sale that just owning the object, given it's absolutely top grail status, history, as well as truly established rarity (margaret little is very rare but there could be at least a dozen copies in collections -- not frank wilson), would make sense to some. Other people would still make fun of it. Possibly even using this icon of a sheep looking cautious and backwards to describe the mentality of a sheep following other sheep.

I said this above but most sellers aren't very honest and as a buyer, a minor complaint expressed extremely politely will get me blocked, rather than get me a refund if I send it back. I usually have to get into a heated argument to get a shady seller to finally agree to take something back and then I'm guaranteed to get blocked. in my experience ON EBAY (not on here) 95% of all sellers are shady, that's the risk you take to potentially get a deal and you have to get used to dealing with shady people. I agree with everything said above about how an honest seller should act, but as a buyer, if you're dealing with someone you don't know, you probably shouldn't assume that they're honest. Also, I don't see how an invisible dealer mark like a pin prick would help. If someone is sending something back that is a totally different record, you already know it's a different record. The buyer also knows it's a different record, so both parties know. What is the pin prick accomplishing? It won't help answer a paypal chargeback. At best, it provides a minor intimidation factor to the buyer in an argument, and this is to a buyer that had the balls to send a different record back claiming it was the same. I also don't believe that this actually happens frequently though, even though sellers like to talk about it all the time. I do believe it happens occasionally.

I agree with Dave on this, I think there would have been more "I want to own that" people if there hadn't been so many posts saying it was dumb to bid on it.

I have sisters Crystal Wilson and Penny Wilson, plus one unknown member. So maybe Sherry Henderson is the 3rd member.

moving to soul audio/video source. Thanks for posting!

even if you are a conservative grader there's always someone more conservative than you. I would always honor a return for any reason. I could see a seller not wanting to refund half the cost for a storage warp on an expensive record though.

This is a functional object rendered non-functional, not a rare artifact to be looked at in non-damaged condition. I don't think Brad did anything wrong though. Also, seeing the high bidder, I'm pretty sure they will pay.

Note that I used the "FCPIS" rate sheet. Also note that it specifically says $6.55 for 1 to 2 ounces and records packed correctly are just under 6 oz.

I don't know what rate sheet you selected, there is nothing on that page that says "first class mail international parcels". The one I am specifically referring to says "First-Class Package International Serviceâ„¢". Here is a direct link to commercial base: https://www.usps.com/2013/shipping/fcpis-com-base.xls here is a link to retail: https://www.usps.com/2013/shipping/fcpis-retail.xls which did you look at?

$5.34 is the current commercial base rate for 4oz. Standard packing in a 45 mailer is just over 5oz which means you have to use the 6oz rate. I would be surprised if something was packed well for 4oz. The seller might also have been close to 4 oz and cheated and gotten away with it (not unlikely).

Currently a single 45 packaged in a regular mailer with filler pads so that it weighs 5-6oz costs $6.90 to ship from the United States to the countries included in "group 5", sent as a first class international package. This is true for packages mailed at the post office ("retail") as well as packages printed at home using services like endicia, pitney-bowes, etc. ("commercial base"). This webpage lets you look up what "group" your country is in (click "first class international" as that is the mail class people generally use to send 45s and LPs): https://ircalc.usps.com/CountryInformationLookup.aspx Note that the UK, Germany, Ireland, Sweden, France, Italy, etc. are in Group 5. Australia is group 3. this webpage shows the new rate sheets effective as of 1/27/2013: https://www.usps.com/new-prices.htm#3 the relevant section is First-Class Package International Service. If you open up the rate sheet for "Commercial Base" you will see that for zones 3,4, and 5, the cost of a 6 oz package will be $11.48 to mail. If you open up the "Retail" rate sheet, you will see that a cost of a 6 oz package will be $12.75 to mail. Again, the commercial base prices are generally used by higher volume sellers who invest in a scale and postage service for their home; the retail prices are the prices people who take packages to the post office to ship pay. IF YOU DON'T WANT TO PROCESS ALL THIS INFORMATION, HERE IS THE SUMMARY: As of January 27th, 45s that currently cost $7 to ship from the US to overseas will now cost $11.50 or $12.75, not including any packaging or handling, depending on what type of service the seller has.

I disagree. Unless they are "3 known copy" finds where the value is held up by like 4 top collectors, small finds will hold their value and often increase the value by exposing an obscure record.

Not only do popsike and collectorsfrenzy miss auctions but popsike collects data and bulk uploads it in intervals (once a month?? i can't remember), so you won't see new results right away. collectorsfrenzy is updated daily. Also buy it nows and second chance offers would not be listed on either site, and it's very possible that the seller did that if s/he has quantity. Finally, a seller can ask popsike to take down an auction if s/he wants to but that is an unlikely explanation for this case.

That's the game of record collecting, trying to guess when copies are gone and something has bottomed out and buying low. If you miss out you end up having to pay a lot more. Either way, seller is not just dumping quantity so he's regulating the supply / price some. Also, yesterday was not exactly the best day to sell a record on ebay given the holidays.

i paid more than that for a clean copy of pam bowie...

I have a m- calvin and the catamounts, $75 + $7 overseas shipping if paid as paypal gift.

I can cut a piece of vinyl the size of the hole, sand down the grooves, glue it in place. The hard part would be carving new grooves that lined up. It wouldn't play music at that part but it would be essentially the same as playing a record that had heat damage over that spot.

Also, given that nobody had anything else meaningful to add in the other thread, I will lock this thread if there are just more generic "this auction is stupid" responses or more fighting. That has been established with many posts already in the other thread. I don't know if anyone has anything meaningful to add at this point.

I don't want to reopen the other thread to random fighting (and I will delete the posts if the same fight comes up again) so I guess I'll leave this new thread and not merge them. Anyways, the other person that bid did not put in a real bid. They bid so that they could see who won the auction. There is a way to see the ID of the winner if you get a bid in. imo this did not warrant a new thread because that's all that is, but now there will be lots of the same responses about how stupid the auction is (obviously). Just to note, more "this is stupid" responses also don't add anything. For the record, I'm the third bidder, and I also bid just to see the winner. if however somehow two bidders retract their bid, I will honor my bid and fix the record so that it's playable.

don't know values of 12"s. Dave Thorley has a copy of the 45 on his website for sale for $30. i do know someone who's one of terry's best friends and also have emails of a humorous interaction between a collector who was selling a copy of the 45 and terry contacting him and threatening him.

Someone asked today if I knew what happened to Oma Heard (who was in a ton of LA girl groups besides cutting her VIP single) and I realized that not only did I not know but the internet has no clue either. The last thing I know about that she did was the Dorothy, Oma, and Zelpha single on Chisa. Anyone have any idea what happened to her after that? Is she still alive? Thanks in advance.

that's the going rate. it's like a $5-$15 record.

a) you need to snipe so your bid goes in at the last second. There is a free sniper, gixen.com b) you need to bid higher

I just remembered, I think I actually got my copy of the bee gee stans from you! I think it was the first thing I ever bought on soul source.