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

i've had bad experiences shipping to italy and greece. i'll still do it, but i require insurance for any overseas order over $30 now.

Recently I sold a guy in sweden a rare record and when filling out the customs form I put down $115 as the value of the record. It was sent priority with everything else. But when the guy went to pick up the record, he had to pay $52 for a custom's tax! I didn't know about this, and dude wasn't happy with me. He said to never put a value over $10 on a package because of this. Has anybody else experience anything like this?

i've had people ask me to not put the real value on a package, but then if you send it with an insured value of $10 then yer fucked if something happens... it's a very tricky thing. not all countries have the same import duties of course, and i don't know what the standard is.

i just shipped a box of five records to germany and put the value as $120, which was the total before shipping. i wonder if the guy will be pissed off.

I'm also conflicted about grading after reading Scott's post above. I was thinking of using EX since I don't want to use NM unless something is sealed and no dings ,shrink completely intact etc.. I've always though VG+ is a lesser grading than EX, has light scuffs, plays with little surface noise, cover has mild wear, but EX is closer to NM almost mint. But is this a made up grading?

Yeah the customs stuff is weird. I've had ones where I put the real value but was asked to mark it as "gift" rather than "goods" but I'm sure every country is different on those rules.

He said to never put a value over $10 on a package because of this.

I guess if someone asked me to do this I would agree to it but tell them if the record gets lost they're SOL because of the insurance implications? Like, if they want to save money on customs then the burden's on them.

^^^ otm

i totally sell stuff that other people would list as near mint as vg+. but i don't care. i want people to be really happy when they get a record from me. and i feel like i'm covered that way. i do use the excellent grade sometimes when i have stuff that is pretty much unplayed/like new. i feel like near mint is almost a myth. i would have to listen to every record i sell very closely for me to call it near mint. i'd rather be safe than sorry. and i get repeat business as a result.

i used excellent for this. anyone else would have said near mint. i don't know how much more i would have made.

http://www.ebay.com/itm/331050930781?ssPageName=STRK:MESOX:IT&_trksid=p3984.m1561.l2649

That les Baxter was nice looking! Does anybody know how this guy gets $31 for Eagles first record when there's 30 copies for less on ebay
http://www.ebay.com/itm/Eagles-Self-Titled-Original-/400591947873?pt=Music_on_Vinyl&hash=item5d45240861

ime, once you get a good ebay account going, selling some cool stuff at least some of the time, allowing for combined shipping, and always being responsive/deferential/quick about messages, shipping, and feedback, you can sell ANYTHING for $20+

that's my buddy. yeah, he's got such a great rep with people. he buys tons of stuff from me. he sends e-mails to over 3000 people before he starts an auction. i could do the same thing if all i did was ebay. but for some reason i enjoy having a store. but i could make more money with huge rock auctions.

i only wince a little bit when one of my 2 dollar records that he bought from me sells for 15 or whatever. and they don't ALWAYS go for more than he bought them for. he spends a lot of money to buy records.

that doesn't really explain how he gets 124 dollars for a fever tree record though. or bloodrock records. some things are a mystery. people are loyal to him though. he sells clean stuff and people depend on him.

he sold that dan lewis album i really want. gotta find one...

37 minutes to go I get a bid followed by this a few minutes later:

"hi sorry man can u cancel my bid i wasnt me my friend did this ..im so sorry"

Were you at least able to sell the record?

I canceled his bid at the last minute and the price dropped from $15.50 to $13.50, there were 4 bidders total so it wasn't a loss.

Afterwards I replied to be more careful in the future and that other sellers on eBay may not be as understanding as I am.

.. or even "around at the time"..

Wanna buy a record shop?

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/On-The-Beat-Records-A-Classic-Vinyl-Collectors-Record-Store-in-Central-London-/221305313500?pt=UK_B_I_Business_for_Sale_CV&hash=item3386d318dc

I think I've been in there.

Assuming you don't get the property itself, cos that alone would be worth way in excess of £300k in that location, that seems a little steep. I wonder how much the rent is.

The bar in that picture, next door to the shop for sale was an early-days London ILx late night hangout.

I thought that might be the case!

"If you’re at the stage in your life when you don’t have to worry about making money but can live the bohemian life"

trans. "loss making business for sale: £300k"

Then again, there was an article in this morning's paper about how Edinburgh's Unknown Pleasures has just had its best ever year due to mad Russians paying top dollar for all manner of common as muck 70s vinyl so maybe it's a good time to buy.

Ian Curtis' kitchen table anyone?

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Ian-Curtis-Singer-Joy-Division-Unique-Personal-Item-His-Kitchen-Table-/190959624297

I finally have my ebay sale up! http://www.ebay.com/sch/delriogirl/m.html?item=291011241002&ssPageName=STRK%3AMESELX%3AIT&rt=nc&_trksid=p2047675.l2562

some of those look great! weirdness with the last item though - says it's the holy modal rounders, but when you click on the link it's john hartford? migh justt be my computer being odd

ian curtis kitchen table - that is a very odd thing to want to buy

I just noticed that and fixed it, after listing 54 items my brain was hurting.

great looking set jacob!

Do you guys place a bid with your top price you'll pay for a record while it has days left? Or do you wait for the last few seconds? I've never don't the former and I'm always surprised by people placing bids by a few dollars, over and over and over. Aside from trying to drive the price up on a record, why bid early?

I should have bid a top price early on a Sun Kil Moon album I wanted. But that's only because it ended while I was away and disconnected from the internet.
Can't be bothered with bidding wars on the beach.

lol I wondered about that John Hartford cover as well.

Jacob, I am interested in the Augustus Pablo, my ILX email works if you wanna hit me up off-board.

I always bid late. I have no idea if there is any actual point in doing it, but that's what I do.

I never thought Lee Hazlewood & Ann Margret's 'The Cowboy & The Lady' would be the most watched record is my sale?? I haven't even listened to it, I guess I should?

If you listen to that one you also have to listen to all the polka.

My sale ends starting tomorrow morning, I'm excited to see what happens. These are records from the last three years digging in Pennsylvania, Oklahoma, Ohio, Louisiana, Maryland, Kentucky, Tennessee, and Texas. I actually had planned to sell 150, but I only ordered 50 record mailers. I don't think I could handle a sale larger than 50 yet.

It's looking my fellowminded japanese will be getting a lot of my records, anyone have tips on what I should charge for combined overseas shipping?

imo taking no profit on int'l shipping means $19 for 1st record + $3.50 per add'l

Thanks, that's what I was thinking, I put 20 in my postings, so I can recover a little handling/mailers cost.

yeah, i think thats the smart way to go!

HA! No one wanted the kiddie Oldfield's the Sallyangie, have to say that was one of the most disappointing records I have ever bought.

this is so cool...

http://gripper.com/records/records

ex-ilxor-related iirc

collector's frenzy is? i didn't know that.

or just the gripper thing?

or maybe they aren't connected at all. i just got to the gripper via collectors frenzy.

just gripper -- think s@nskr!t did something for it?

otm. still does I think.

https://twitter.com/gripper/status/383752870459224064

I suck at selling on ebay, all of the decent private xian records undersold, and the stuff I almost didn't sell did ok. Maybe the market for christian records has busted? I'm planning on putting up 45's, maybe those will do better.

re-list stuff that didn't sell.