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

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

Mark G, Tuesday, 17 August 2010 07:54 (thirteen years ago) link

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).

sleeve, Saturday, 21 August 2010 13:57 (thirteen years ago) link

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.

sleeve, Saturday, 21 August 2010 19:40 (thirteen years ago) link

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.

scott seward, Saturday, 21 August 2010 19:47 (thirteen years ago) link

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

scott seward, Thursday, 2 September 2010 17:14 (thirteen years ago) link

someone sold an open copy pretty recently i think.

not everything is a campfire (ian), Thursday, 2 September 2010 17:16 (thirteen years ago) link

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

not everything is a campfire (ian), Thursday, 2 September 2010 17:17 (thirteen years ago) link

so many $$ but god what a record

do you know sixty (electricsound), Thursday, 2 September 2010 22:33 (thirteen years ago) link

four weeks pass...

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.

****

('_') (omar little), Friday, 1 October 2010 18:17 (thirteen years ago) link

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...

69, Friday, 1 October 2010 19:20 (thirteen years ago) link

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

Stormy Davis, Friday, 1 October 2010 19:24 (thirteen years ago) link

done that too

69, Friday, 1 October 2010 19:37 (thirteen years ago) link

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)

('_') (omar little), Friday, 1 October 2010 19:45 (thirteen years ago) link

dudes like 69!

('_') (omar little), Friday, 1 October 2010 19:46 (thirteen years ago) link

ladies LOVE 69!

69, Friday, 1 October 2010 20:23 (thirteen years ago) link

heyyyyyy

('_') (omar little), Friday, 1 October 2010 20:27 (thirteen years ago) link

one time (probably detailed upthread tbh), i asked a dude if he'd consider making buy-it-nows of his bidless ORIGINAL MUSIC listings, cause i was gonna buy em all. he agreed, and even said he'd do it for $25 instead of the $30 i offered to pay. unfortunately, this east coast gentleman chose to make them buy-it-nows at 6am PST, before confirming the time with me. when i woke up at 7 on a saturday only to make sure the listings hadnt been put up yet, they were already listed and gone. obviously i was more mad at myself for engineering this dumb-shit deal than anything else, and it's kept me from trying any other ebay shenanigans since.

69, Friday, 1 October 2010 20:44 (thirteen years ago) link

woke up at 7 on a saturday only to make sure the listings hadnt been put up yet

ha! actually, at the height of my insanity there were a few times I set my alarm for 2, 3 in the morning to get up and snipe auctions that were ending then

Stormy Davis, Friday, 1 October 2010 20:52 (thirteen years ago) link

get esnipe

sanskrit, Tuesday, 12 October 2010 14:03 (thirteen years ago) link

" 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!"......no wonder my schedule has been slightly off

danbunny, Tuesday, 12 October 2010 14:23 (thirteen years ago) link

from a chuck norris movie.."Shortly after, Chuck gets a lead on an evil Nazi warehouse. I'm sure there was some reason given as to how he found it, but I don't really remember or care. Trust me, menial plot details don't matter when you're watching Top Dog. Later that night, with no search warrant in hand, Chuck breaks into the warehouse and takes Reno along. Backup officers wait outside. It is while inside the warehouse that Chuck and Reno make their breakthrough discovery- the Nazi Day-Planner! Lying in a random desk in the warehouse, is a guide showing pictures of where the Nazis are going to strike next. As Chuck and Reno try and sneak out though, they get caught by the Nazis. I guess the Nazis stay up all night in their Nazi warehouse, talking about how much they hate minorities. Surrounded by bad guys, Chuck only has one choice. He gets out the Nazi Day-Planner, gives it to Reno, and tells him to run. He really doesn't even do it that quickly. The flunkies however, are completely dumbfounded by this as they watch Reno run away. It's not until the Nazi Ringleader tells them to 'get that dog!' that a couple of them run after Reno and the rest fight Chuck."

danbunny, Tuesday, 12 October 2010 14:24 (thirteen years ago) link

and the dog never stopped until it reached danbunny

Mark G, Tuesday, 12 October 2010 16:00 (thirteen years ago) link

ugh i sold a record for $66 bucks and the buyer who had of course a rating of only (1) closed their ebay account two days later before paying for it. i hate assholes like that.

('_') (omar little), Wednesday, 13 October 2010 17:24 (thirteen years ago) link

i'm always thankful when someone pays within a few minutes of the auction ending, but every time i put a few records up i end up waiting for that last person to pay, and they end up doing it five days later.

('_') (omar little), Wednesday, 13 October 2010 17:26 (thirteen years ago) link

bought this for five bucks a couple weeks ago. who knew?

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=330478451674

scott seward, Monday, 25 October 2010 17:15 (thirteen years ago) link

damn sheila!

69, Monday, 25 October 2010 17:20 (thirteen years ago) link

awesome.

not everything is a campfire (ian), Monday, 25 October 2010 17:48 (thirteen years ago) link

doin it again: http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=330493672067

69, Sunday, 7 November 2010 02:47 (thirteen years ago) link

current batch of 78s i'm selling for work:
http://shop.ebay.com/academy78s/m.html

not everything is a campfire (ian), Sunday, 7 November 2010 20:10 (thirteen years ago) link

Quite pleased, got Small Faces "Ogdens" mono original for 99p.

A little crackly, but pretty damn good. It didn't have a sleeve, so that's why.

Mark G, Tuesday, 9 November 2010 09:41 (thirteen years ago) link

two weeks pass...

please to explain me this:

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&hash=item35adc4ab03&item=230548613891&nma=true&pt=Music_on_Vinyl&rt=nc&si=KFctr%252F60KtM9QtBeaDHvnlYNLgY%253D

"Note: comes with high quality laser copy (printed on cardboard) of original artwork!"

scott seward, Saturday, 27 November 2010 17:32 (thirteen years ago) link

does that mean that they, like, lost the picture sleeve or something?

scott seward, Saturday, 27 November 2010 17:38 (thirteen years ago) link

people keep telling me that i should sell on discogs. should i move on over from ebay? i keep hearing about how people regularly pay really high prices on there for stuff. and that you can move things quicker.

scott seward, Saturday, 27 November 2010 17:43 (thirteen years ago) link

if you've got a rare rap or disco record, discogs is a good way to go tbh. we've put stuff up for $100 or $200 and it'll sell overnight sometimes.

not everything is a campfire (ian), Saturday, 27 November 2010 20:29 (thirteen years ago) link

definitely browsed by serious record collector type dudes.

not everything is a campfire (ian), Saturday, 27 November 2010 20:29 (thirteen years ago) link

discogs sales history is pretty cool too

not everything is a campfire (ian), Saturday, 27 November 2010 20:29 (thirteen years ago) link

Your eBay bid is confirmed: Chet Atkins LPs Lot Of 6 (200552382668)
Your eBay bid is confirmed: Porter Wagoner LP A Satisfied Mind 1963 (200552393457)
Your eBay bid is confirmed: Johnny Darrell LP Why You Been Gone So Long 1969 (120657529880)
Your eBay bid is confirmed: Porter Wagoner LP "Ballads Of Love" (150529365289)
Your eBay bid is confirmed: Ernest Tubb LP "Hittin' The Road"/Decca (DL-4681) (200551269936)

not everything is a campfire (ian), Thursday, 9 December 2010 03:42 (thirteen years ago) link

which chet atkins records did u get

flopson, Thursday, 9 December 2010 03:46 (thirteen years ago) link

don't count yer chickens til they're hatched, iirc... just put in a low bid on the lot. we'll see.

not everything is a campfire (ian), Thursday, 9 December 2010 04:10 (thirteen years ago) link

there's more than enough to love in every record, i think. so long as you aren't bothered by it being a solo over theme from doctor zhivago or something

my roommate got me into chet & also told me this wonderful story about him. apparently some 20th c virtuoso classical guitarist, on his deathbed, was asked who the greatest living guitarist was and he answered "chester atkins"

flopson, Thursday, 9 December 2010 04:18 (thirteen years ago) link

http://207.228.243.82/static/sss.jpg

bid 3$ on this & won, my first ever youtube purchase. i wonder if it is any good

flopson, Sunday, 12 December 2010 05:12 (thirteen years ago) link

how do you buy stuff on youtube?

jaxon, Sunday, 12 December 2010 19:38 (thirteen years ago) link

oops

flopson, Sunday, 12 December 2010 19:39 (thirteen years ago) link

i feel like my grandmother

flopson, Sunday, 12 December 2010 19:39 (thirteen years ago) link

zedo, bluekai and atwola dot com, why are you suddenly running javascripts on my browser when I go to eBay?

sleeve, Thursday, 16 December 2010 23:48 (thirteen years ago) link

what is it with this tennent & morrison record?

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&rt=nc&nma=true&item=320629749977&si=3jg0sP%252FGn%252FNwGuAknfWM1heknvE%253D&viewitem=

Thus Sang Freud, Saturday, 18 December 2010 19:04 (thirteen years ago) link

i ain't never heard it. do you have a copy? i wanna know why friggin' stone the crow albums all of a sudden are worth more than ten bucks. they're kinda horrible.

scott seward, Saturday, 18 December 2010 19:31 (thirteen years ago) link

stone the crows, that is.

scott seward, Saturday, 18 December 2010 19:39 (thirteen years ago) link


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