https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/The-Great-Otis-Redding-Sings-Soul-Ballads-LP-UK-RARE-1st-1966-PRESS-MONO-MINT-/311162018091?pt=UK_Records&hash=item4872b3992b

 

Why do all of these folks want to pay £100+ for what is effectively a re-issue?

Only thought that was worth about £15!

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/The-Great-Otis-Redding-Sings-Soul-Ballads-LP-UK-RARE-1st-1966-PRESS-MONO-MINT-/311162018091?pt=UK_Records&hash=item4872b3992b

 

Why do all of these folks want to pay £100+ for what is effectively a re-issue?

 

Blimey, I've got one of those somewhere.  £75 anyone??

That seller must have a lot of time on his hands to write up a listing that long

That seller must have a lot of time on his hands to write up a listing that long

 

That seller must have a lot of time on his hands to write up a listing that long

 

 

He must have loads of time on his hands, he's written War & Peace on nearly all his listings

His implication is that the original sold more than the re-issue, so what?

I suppose it only needs a couple of people on a nostalgia kick doesn't it.

 

I can remember this being a bit of an iconic album cover when it came out. On display in the window of our local record shop.

 

But if you were mid-teens in the mid-60s the chance of buying a copy was very very low.

 

There would have been a few copies around at parties and youth clubs and what have you - but quite likely dropped on the floor and generally mistreated.

 

Now a chance to buy it as if it was brand new from the shop. And there will be some out there who can find £100 today easier than they could have found the thirty five shillings (or whatever it was) back then.

 

Just my spin on it . . . . . . . . . .

I think you're right, the condition is `as new` and if it were a dream to own it back then AND you've just received your pension lump sum, well what the hell. Will a Lambretta be next on the shopping list?