Ebay, Light Of My Life, Fire Of My Loins, My Sin, My Soul

I have one of those, but the condition is well off mint.

Playable but verray scratchy.

a guy just called me at the store to tell me that he is sending me a mailer in the mail to put his record in! that's a first. guess he's had a lot of bad experiences with the post office. can't wait to see it. must be fancy.

that's insane.

i mean i just sent a 200 dollar record to some dude in france and it got there fine and this guy lives in brooklyn. eh, whatever. i started selling records on ebay in 1999 and only once in all that time did someone get a damaged record.

he lives in brooklyn, eh? dare i ask what his name is? i might know him!

a guy just called me at the store to tell me that he is sending me a mailer in the mail to put his record in! that's a first. guess he's had a lot of bad experiences with the post office. can't wait to see it. must be fancy.

― scott seward, Saturday, July 17, 2010 9:30 PM (2 days ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

Yeah, I've had this happen a couple of times. Dude bought five or six albums, "whoa" prices, and sent one back as being 'less than mint' (churlish to argue)...

this guy has some cool stuff up--

http://cgi.ebay.com/Happy-Artie-Traum-Double-Back-/400137918315?cmd=ViewItem&pt=Music_on_Vinyl&hash=item5d2a14176b

^^ a favorite

http://cgi.ebay.com/Homegas-Self-Titled-1970-Hippie-Blues-Folk-Psych-/400137923230?cmd=ViewItem&pt=Music_on_Vinyl&hash=item5d2a142a9e

^^ this one too

http://cgi.ebay.com/Michael-Chapman-Fully-Qualified-Survivor-/400138685591?cmd=ViewItem&pt=Music_on_Vinyl&hash=item5d2a1fcc97

http://cgi.ebay.com/Merrell-Fankhauser-HMS-Bounty-Things-Psych-Orig-Label-/400138683333?cmd=ViewItem&pt=Music_on_Vinyl&hash=item5d2a1fc3c5

TONS of 'regular' rock records, but also cool psych & folk and some private pressings and stuff.

i know that vinylty guy, i've bought from him a buncha times. problem is, he has "fans" and watchers, so stuff that should sell for a lot cheaper ends up going for stupid prices, because idiots that watch his auctions get in bidding wars

i'm willing to bet i'm one of a small handful of ppl interested in his grayson & whitter LP, so i'm hoping i get that one cheap. i put in a comedy bid on the people's victory orchestra & chorus LP but i really don't expect i'll get that.

its sad when i see records that i sell for a buck or two in the store - and that sit there in the store for months - selling for 10 or 20 bucks on ebay. it's kinda why people pack in the store idea and just sell online. but whatever. but seriously, if you can get money for brian cadd or beans records more power to you. looking at the stuff that guy sells is like looking into my brain. i cringe at the idea of starting stuff at 99 cents. i really do. the thought of sending a dollar record to hong kong...yeesh, i would have to have an employee. you know? but it does work. that guy sells 98% of his stuff. and he averages like ten bucks. if i started all that stuff at five bucks i would only sell half of it.

and its funny cuz i don't know the seller - i rarely remember ebay handles - but i was watching one of his records for the last five days.

some pretty sweet stuff:

http://shop.ebay.com/chriscarnahan2/m.html?_nkw=&_armrs=1&_from=&_ipg=&_trksid=p3686

i probably shouldn't have posted that, now we'll be fighting over LPs.

a headscratcher:

http://cgi.ebay.com/Title-Blood-Sweat-And-Tears-Eric-Satie-/270613768055?cmd=ViewItem&pt=Music_on_Vinyl&hash=item3f01d66777#ht_500wt_1154

ha -- even more confusing, the actual record is cat stevens

that is funny.

and that funky guy has great stuff! that's a lot of money on those four pages.

hard to scan the list with all those "Title:"s and "By"s !

coolest cover ever?

http://cgi.ebay.com/COKE-Self-Titled-LP-Sound-Triangle-Latin-Funk-/330455361895?cmd=ViewItem&pt=Music_on_Vinyl&hash=item4cf0aca967

http://cgi.ebay.com/SLY-BOOTS-Notes-Journey-LP-rural-rock-folk-psych-/320572060961?pt=Music_on_Vinyl

^^ this is a nice record.

(so is the ron davie's record he's selling.)

i had that sly boots album for years, but didn't play it much so i traded it to my friend bob and it sat in his store for years and i was always gonna buy it back but i never did. i should have. probably dig it more now. always loved the cover anyhow.

i realize how fascinating that story is...

There's a cheaper copy on ebay now too, but with a beat up cover.

I play the track "Pass Through Like The Lightning" on my show pretty regularly tbh

http://cgi.ebay.com/Glen-Sherley-/200458737841?pt=Music_on_Vinyl

Photographs show the actual item.

It measures about 12 inches across the middle.

good to know.

HAW!

wow, i just held this in my hands.

http://cgi.ebay.com/Lula-Cortes-Ze-Ramalho-Paebiru-LP-ORIGINAL-PRESSING-/180546442612?pt=Music_on_Vinyl

! backstory?

person i know is selling it for a brasilian friend to help the both of them make some money and start pressing their own reissues of rarities down in brazil. worried about their lack of ebay feedback though. and i explained that there is no such thing as a perfect record. great shape though.

that record is A+ fucking awesome gold btw

ebay yanked my historical nazi album. honestly didn't think anything of it. its not like i would ever sell nazi skinhead records or anything. this is more like a sound effects album if its anything at all. i always figured albums like this were good for negativland-like sampling purposes. but maybe i'm naive. so, i've learned my lesson this year. don't try and sell pink floyd boots or hitler records.

http://blackgemrecords.com/gallery/d/3105-10/hitler-infernovol1.jpg

we have a whole box of nazi historical records and no ide what to do with them :( imo they should just be destroyed.

i actually only put it up cuz it was sealed. and by now i realize that i can make money putting up all kinds of things if they are sealed. plus, okay, fine, i do realize that nazi stuff sells. but not always to nazis, you know? not everyone has nefarious purposes for such things. having said that, i have a pretty cool original 1939 nazi day planner that i got in a box of books from my brother and i don't know what to do with it. kinda cool. original nazi pencil included! i ended up with a horrible doctor dirty john valby record and i actually did throw it in the trash. didn't even want to sell it for a dollar. cuz he had some super funny "n-word" song on it.

i used to follow an ebay seller that had tons of weird euro and asian psych. i also followed him on youtube because he'd post a lot of the records he was selling there. then all of a sudden all of the stuff he was selling was nazi related. i wasn't sure if he was just a kook or someone hacked his accounts, but i unfollowed him.

i'm reminded of those old dudes at flea markets with the signs that say *ask to see our rare WWII memorabilia* and you just know that its a couple of old nazi daggers and flags and helmets that the dude got from his grandpappy and that they are priced so high that nobody will ever buy them cuz the guy can't bear to part with them. in fact, just went to a grandpappy junk shop in new hampshire and it was filled with horrible garbage and in one corner was a glass cabinet filled with artlessly arranged nazibilia all with decades-old index cards next to each item with crab-scrawled descriptions written on each card. probably been there since the korean war. good idea for an art-photo assignment. take pictures of old dude nazi displays around the country. i'm sure just one gun show would fill you with awe and dread.

If you are going to throw it, I'd suggest donating it to a museum or something.

pet peeve: people who wait until the auction is over, then see you have new listings, then ask you if they can wait to pay until they get a chance to bid on the next round. fuck that. here is my somewhat snippy reply:

I need payment for this item within five days of the auction ending, as explained in the item description. I list CDs every week and I can not wait for you to decide that you want to bid on new ones every time. IF you make your payment for this item (with full postage amount) and then decide you want me to hold the item while you bid on additional ones, that's fine. In that case, additional CDs would $2 apiece for combined shipping as I already mentioned in my answer to your last question. But please be aware that shipping prices jump drastically after around 1.75 kilos (4 pounds).

haha totally did not mean to capitalize that "if" there.

anyway, I guess I should put something in my boilerplate text about this, maybe a 2-week maximum for holding items. they guy paid me right away, but I'd rather send stuff ASAP than wait for some indefinite period until a person tires of bidding on my items.

i hate it too, but i understsand the impulse. especially if i'm selling a bunch of stuff in the same genre. that's usually when that happens to me. luckily, i'm so lazy that it usually takes me a couple weeks to list another batch of records.

http://cgi.ebay.com/71-MADRIGAL-Acid-Garage-Psych-Velvet-Underground-BEAST_W0QQitemZ270628491465QQcategoryZ306QQcmdZViewItemQQ_trksidZp4340.m8QQ_trkparmsZalgo=MW&its=C&itu=UCC&otn=5&ps=63&clkid=5988687508155960257#ht_6126wt_1136

didn't someone just sell that? or are they selling it again for some reason.

someone sold an open copy pretty recently i think.

looks like the same guy; maybe he got two copies. or three, if he's keeping one.

so many $$ but god what a record

you ever sell a record and get one of these?

Hello,

I am wondering if you'd be willing to end this auction early if we can agree on a price? I've been looking for this record for a long time!

let me know what you think.

****

dont do it if there are bids! if no bids yet, i still wouldnt do it, but if you think you can get a better price, it might be reasonable.

by the way, although i advise against doing it, i have sent things like that before to sellers...

I've never sent something like that, but I *have* searched old auctions and found something that I've been looking for where I never saw the seller's original listing and the item ended without bids. Then emailed them and asked if they would sell it to me offline of the 'Bay

done that too

i never considered accepting the offer, i told the guy that he should just bid and whatever he was willing to pay, make that his maximum bid and hey you never know, you might end up paying less (but dudes like that are always trying to score a $100 LP for $30 ime)

dudes like 69!