https://www.ebay.co.uk/bfl/viewbids/314004445456?item=314004445456&rt=nc&_trksid=p2047675.l2565

currantly 5 sat on discogs for under 50 quid

Bad link.

Ed

1 minute ago, Tomangoes said:

Bad link.

Ed

$306 finish bid Ed, Carolina Soul 

1 hour ago, Trev Thomas said:

https://www.ebay.co.uk/bfl/viewbids/314004445456?item=314004445456&rt=nc&_trksid=p2047675.l2565

currantly 5 sat on discogs for under 50 quid

I still think people are stuck with Ebay and some have no idea Discogs exists

25 quid record at best

A bidder with 67 feedback and another with just 27 get into a bidding frenzy for a cheap 45 in, wait for it... VG condition? 

I'll be surprised if the seller gets paid!

9 minutes ago, Blackpoolsoul said:

still think people are stuck with Ebay and some have no idea Discogs exists

It happens all the time, I use Discogs as a guide along with Popsike for any record I'm interested in that come up on Ebay.

Knowing how much I can get one for I then watch the one on Ebay, I rarely get the ebay one, records with multiple copies on Discogs at under twenty quid regularly go for at least a tenner more.

I've also had personal experience of the follow the leader mentality on Discogs, seller had record open to offers, his was one of the cheapest plus on British which I would have preferred. In no way expensive but his postage was a fiver on a £12 record, I offered him a tenner, didn't get a refusal notice but did get a message saying seller had relisted item. He'd increased price to £15 same as everyone else, 18 months later record is still sat there. 

  

In this information age and I don't even have a mobile phone there are numerous outlets that will give you the real value or availability of almost all sounds, particularly virtual unknowns - Popsike / ebay / discogs all have long standing info useful to all - You just need to be relentless particularly with discogs as it's buy it now and then gone but I've lost count of the number of times I've found a sound completely out of it's real or imagined price category and snagged a complete bargain and that's without the mis-spelling bargains.

Discogs is also notorious for sellers appearing to be chancers with ridiculous price listings and that includes many British sellers of long standing ( they know who they are ) - ebay and Carolina soul and a few others always seem to induce a kind of bidding frenzy, often for virtually unplayable condition 45's

I have no sympathy with people who overpay or have no knowledge or gumption to acquire 45's at all cost's, it's their perogative when all said and done and I suppose a lot of us do get a bit 'hot under the collar' at others actions.

 As for the Scientist's of soul - Be's that way - it was a soul pack sound 50 yrs ago and remains so - never been a sound so to speak and never will be unlike the Father's Angels MGM issue that I sold to a guy decades ago who came up to me at Greenfields Loughborough 3 weeks ago to tell me he'd bought it from me and it was still a highlight of his record collecting journey - a real memory jogger ( I'd always remembered it as a sale to JM in 1984 - turns out my memory had failed me on this occassion ) 

Auctions are buggers for establishing fair prices....for anything!

Ebay audience must be mind blowing in numbers.

Ed

3 hours ago, Vadnochka said:

In this information age and I don't even have a mobile phone there are numerous outlets that will give you the real value or availability of almost all sounds, particularly virtual unknowns - Popsike / ebay / discogs all have long standing info useful to all - You just need to be relentless particularly with discogs as it's buy it now and then gone but I've lost count of the number of times I've found a sound completely out of it's real or imagined price category and snagged a complete bargain and that's without the mis-spelling bargains.

Discogs is also notorious for sellers appearing to be chancers with ridiculous price listings and that includes many British sellers of long standing ( they know who they are ) - ebay and Carolina soul and a few others always seem to induce a kind of bidding frenzy, often for virtually unplayable condition 45's

I have no sympathy with people who overpay or have no knowledge or gumption to acquire 45's at all cost's, it's their perogative when all said and done and I suppose a lot of us do get a bit 'hot under the collar' at others actions.

 As for the Scientist's of soul - Be's that way - it was a soul pack sound 50 yrs ago and remains so - never been a sound so to speak and never will be unlike the Father's Angels MGM issue that I sold to a guy decades ago who came up to me at Greenfields Loughborough 3 weeks ago to tell me he'd bought it from me and it was still a highlight of his record collecting journey - a real memory jogger ( I'd always remembered it as a sale to JM in 1984 - turns out my memory had failed me on this occassion ) 

It's a little harsh to say you have "no sympathy for sellers who overpay and have no knowledge or gumption" as that implies that we were always wise when young and wet behind the ears.

Our job is not to criticise, but hopefully to educate and add knowledge to the great and young pretenders so they don't get ripped.

 

 

Edited May 31, 20223 yr by Blackpoolsoul

I like the record and have always kept it. I must have owned it for over 40 years! 😱 Personally I would think about £30 to £40 for a good copy.

Auctions do cause silly prices sometimes. But also some people can't be bothered shopping around!  If they want it they just keep bidding and it turns into a competition to win!

 

Edited May 31, 20223 yr by Solidsoul

19 minutes ago, Solidsoul said:

I like the record and have always kept it. I must have owned it for over 40 years! 😱 Personally I would think about £30 to £40 for a good copy.

Auctions do cause silly prices sometimes. But also some people can't be bothered shopping around!  If they want it they just keep bidding and it turns into a competition to win!

 

Me too and I always loved it, Carolina Soul has been so long on Ebay.

If you go to a normal auction and some websites they normally have an estimate so at least it gives a ball park, shame these auction sites don't do the same and then if people do pay over the odds then it is at least clear.

The current interest in the record is for the other side  ...  a ballad ....

Superbly constructed uplifting vocal-group dancer. In recent times this 45 has done a disappearing act! Two most soulful sides! Killer harmony group Northern Soul with a sublime ballad flipside! Written and produced by Lee Wells arranged by Joe Scott A Side Title: Be's That Way Sometimes Produced By: Lee Wells Arranged By: Joe Scott Written By: Lee Ridgeway & Lee Wells B Side Title: Baby Baby I Love You    as per jm's description

5 hours ago, givemesoul said:

Superbly constructed uplifting vocal-group dancer. In recent times this 45 has done a disappearing act! Two most soulful sides! Killer harmony group Northern Soul with a sublime ballad flipside! Written and produced by Lee Wells arranged by Joe Scott A Side Title: Be's That Way Sometimes Produced By: Lee Wells Arranged By: Joe Scott Written By: Lee Ridgeway & Lee Wells B Side Title: Baby Baby I Love You    as per jm's description

That's interesting as the label has a D. Ridgeway and JM's description says "lee"

I wonder if this Gentleman might be one of our men

 

Edited June 1, 20223 yr by Blackpoolsoul

There's only 2 left on discogs now 

1 hour ago, Trev Thomas said:

There's only 2 left on discogs now 

What have you done Trev 😀 Should have kept quiet