I Need A Big Favor From Someone in The UK

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I need one of these, and it's become apparent that Yamaha have little ro no intention of making them available in the USA.

If anybody is merciful and kind enough to trust me I would like to arrange some means of acquiring one (and paying you for it of course). I'm completely unfamiliar with safe overseas transactions however.

Thanks very much,

― Millar (Millar), Friday, 21 February 2003 03:55 (twenty-three years ago)

can we make this a general UK care package thread?

I'd like someone to send me a UK copy of Houellebecq's - Platform. I'll pay for it too, used is great.

― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Friday, 21 February 2003 06:21 (twenty-three years ago)

And a little box of ribena. [not sparkling, please]

― phil-two (phil-two), Friday, 21 February 2003 06:26 (twenty-three years ago)

I'm looking for a royal family. But I absolutely refuse to overpay.

I'll also check the Need A Favor From Someone In Belgium/Holland/Sweden/Japan/and Spain threads.

― Skottie, Friday, 21 February 2003 07:43 (twenty-three years ago)

Where are the best (pref. 2d hand) bookstores? London? Oxford? ___?

Thanks

― JeremyZag, Friday, 21 February 2003 09:57 (twenty-three years ago)

Hay on Wye. Duh ;)

― Liz :x (Liz :x), Friday, 21 February 2003 10:03 (twenty-three years ago)

Abe books is very good for finding second hand places.

― Madeleine (Madeleine), Friday, 21 February 2003 10:48 (twenty-three years ago)

It's a £50 music case, right?

I'll sort it out for you Millar. Contact me via email on [email protected] and we'll make the arrangements. There's actually a reciprocal favour you could do for me, if you like!

C J

― C J (C J), Friday, 21 February 2003 10:51 (twenty-three years ago)

Thanks Madeleine!

― JeremyZag, Friday, 21 February 2003 10:56 (twenty-three years ago)

Hey Spencer -- I asked for peeps to be sending me Platform last summer -- no go. However! you can get it at Shakespeare & Co. in NY (they have a rockin Britsection). However! I think it's coming out in the US in June. (It's not so good unortunately.) But maybe British people like you more and have already started buying the book to send to you:) (You can also do Amazon UK--but you probabaly knew that.)

― Mary (Mary), Friday, 21 February 2003 17:36 (twenty-three years ago)

actually, I saw it on Powell or Abe's and the total cost would be about $30 which would be comparable to the hardcover. I'll probably just order it...

― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Friday, 21 February 2003 19:05 (twenty-three years ago)

cool -- let us know what you think

I'd like something from England. I wonder WHO I could ask...?

― Mary (Mary), Friday, 21 February 2003 19:28 (twenty-three years ago)

i have no idea. cant help you there...

― gareth (gareth), Friday, 21 February 2003 19:29 (twenty-three years ago)

;)

― gareth (gareth), Friday, 21 February 2003 19:30 (twenty-three years ago)

yeah Mary, don't you need a copy of Platform sent to 'your' P.O. Box in the 90048?....

― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Friday, 21 February 2003 19:30 (twenty-three years ago)

"I'm looking for a royal family. But I absolutely refuse to overpay. "

Seeking a knee-jerk pro-American foreign policy with a generous helping of teenage pregnancy. I absoultely refuse to underpay.

― JeremyZag, Saturday, 22 February 2003 08:34 (twenty-three years ago)

id like someone to tape the bbc radio prince documentary

― chaki (chaki), Saturday, 22 February 2003 09:36 (twenty-three years ago)

How come the British people don't want anything from us? :(

― Mary (Mary), Sunday, 23 February 2003 06:23 (twenty-three years ago)

I need a big favor from someone in Amsterdam....~

― boxcubed (boxcubed), Sunday, 23 February 2003 06:29 (twenty-three years ago)

a copy of the last belle&sebastian peel session would be nice.

― phil-two (phil-two), Sunday, 23 February 2003 09:07 (twenty-three years ago)

Mary, are you absolutely sure about that? It's not the impression I have...

― Martin Skidmore (Martin Skidmore), Sunday, 23 February 2003 11:58 (twenty-three years ago)

''How come the British people don't want anything from us? :(''

well I want a copy of Joe carducci's 'Rock and the pop narcotic' actually.

― Julio Desouza (jdesouza), Sunday, 23 February 2003 12:47 (twenty-three years ago)

Please send us the Labour Party. In exchange, we will extradite the Republics, whom you can send to Scotland.

― Girolamo Savonarola, Sunday, 23 February 2003 13:06 (twenty-three years ago)

Yeah, apparently the "an" in Republicans was seized at customs.

― Girolamo Savonarola, Sunday, 23 February 2003 13:09 (twenty-three years ago)

How come the British people don't want anything from us? :(

But we've given them Pizza Hut and Vin Diesel, what more do they want?

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Sunday, 23 February 2003 16:18 (twenty-three years ago)

we will give you our pseudo-KFCs!!

(haha i wrote speudo DO YOU SEE)

― mark s (mark s), Sunday, 23 February 2003 16:24 (twenty-three years ago)

and you can have some DENTISTS ba ha ha ha ha ha

― Millar (Millar), Sunday, 23 February 2003 17:15 (twenty-three years ago)

Anyone need some, er, donuts? Hockey equipment?

― mark p (Mark P), Sunday, 23 February 2003 17:17 (twenty-three years ago)

I want girl scout cookies! And veggie corndogs!

― Graham (graham), Sunday, 23 February 2003 17:23 (twenty-three years ago)

US request - soft pack filterless Lucky Strikes

― nick.K (nick.K), Sunday, 23 February 2003 18:12 (twenty-three years ago)

Hey Chaki, if the show is archived, I can grab the stream using Total Recorder...

― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Monday, 24 February 2003 10:48 (twenty-three years ago)

Are you a veg. Graham? (I'll see if we can round up some GSC.)

― Mary (Mary), Monday, 24 February 2003 11:12 (twenty-three years ago)

two weeks pass...

Mary, re: Platform

However! you can get it at Shakespeare & Co. in NY (they have a rockin Britsection).

which one? My housemate will be in Manhattan this weekend. The one on Broadway?

― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Wednesday, 12 March 2003 01:32 (twenty-three years ago)

retry.

― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Thursday, 13 March 2003 01:12 (twenty-three years ago)

Hey Spencer: yeah I'd try the downtown one on B'way around 4th st.

― Mary (Mary), Thursday, 13 March 2003 01:19 (twenty-three years ago)

Thank you, Mary!

― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Thursday, 13 March 2003 01:24 (twenty-three years ago)

And a little box of ribena. [not sparkling, please]

I know of a place in DC that has Ribena (sparkling or no, I'd have to check). Are you still looking for this?

― j.lu (j.lu), Thursday, 13 March 2003 02:31 (twenty-three years ago)

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