WHY is there a persistancy/consistancy of sellers ( not all you understand ) to NOT upload pics of the items they are selling, OR soundfiles?

Is it just too much hassle?, asking for a friend...( where have you heard that worn out chesnut before? )🤣

Edited July 26Jul 26 by Agentsmith

Doing proper recording can be laborious sometimes, but yeah no excuses for not uploading pictures.

Or taking pics of the label only😂

Or just naming the artists in the first line…

2 hours ago, Dobber said:

Or taking pics of the label only😂

Yes, we want to see the vinyl and no pitch black scan

I'd like it if more sellers updated when a record is sold, can't be any more time consuming than having to answer an enquiry message if a record is still available.

Totally agree! I always use the sold tag,by using the tag it cuts down on the after sales enquiries,and less of a dissapointment to the person enquireing! Further more it shows everyone the healthy or unhealthy state of sales if your thinking of selling too!

On 26/07/2025 at 16:00, Antoine said:

Doing proper recording can be laborious sometimes, but yeah no excuses for not uploading pictures.

Not everybody has decent broadband even these days. I sat for 40 minutes trying to upload pictures to this site only a few days ago. Gave up and wrote a list.

Been buying off lists for decades so doesn’t really bother me that much.

Pictures for the most part are just porn for people to flick through. People scroll with a blank expression, simply passing time…

On 26/07/2025 at 15:48, Agentsmith said:

WHY is there a persistancy/consistancy of sellers ( not all you understand ) to NOT upload pics of the items they are selling, OR soundfiles?

Is it just too much hassle?, asking for a friend...( where have you heard that worn out chesnut before? )🤣

I don't remember my early soulbowl lists or anywhere else having pretty pics or sound files on before we became old parts

2 hours ago, Steviehay said:

I don't remember my early soulbowl lists or anywhere else having pretty pics or sound files on before we became old parts

That's true, but the world has changed and now it's easy to send pictures to anyone in seconds. Now that we can do it, it can't be uninvented!

Wouldn't have a clue how to download a soundclip.

Did have a scanner/printer few years back and could download images. Gone now. Stopped working.

Don't have a camera or mobile and if I did no idea how to download to laptop.

4 hours ago, Modernsoulsucks said:

Wouldn't have a clue how to download a soundclip.

Did have a scanner/printer few years back and could download images. Gone now. Stopped working.

Don't have a camera or mobile and if I did no idea how to download to laptop.

Now this is know is true as daft as it may seem

On 27/07/2025 at 13:14, Twoshoes said:

I'd like it if more sellers updated when a record is sold, can't be any more time consuming than having to answer an enquiry message

Have to agree. Just bought a stack from abroad. The guys list was full of decent stuff (ignored all the UK 45's and the majority of the US manufactured records). Didn't go for any big money items, I like all types of soul and love foreign releases with pic covers & on 'weird' labels. He came from a Euro country where even though you have to pay import charges on buys, the postage costs were decent (not many of them left these days).

HOWEVER, if you went over a certain number of 45's his postage fee jumped from just over £30 to over £430 -- no idea why, guess it was a quirk of his country's postal service charge policy. After I noticed this, I cut back my purchases by 3 or 4 singles. Sent in my order, only to be told ... CAN'T FIND A COUPLE IN THE SHOP'S RACKS, SO THEY MUST HAVE BEEN SOLD. So he refunded me the excess cash I'd sent instantly. We then went thru a dance as I added one of the 45's I'd knocked off my original order ... THAT ONE'S GONE TOO . . . .Got there in the end but it was hard work.

Edited yesterday at 10:291 day by Roburt

7 hours ago, Roburt said:

Have to agree. Just bought a stack from abroad. The guys list was full of decent stuff (ignored all the UK 45's and the majority of the US manufactured records). Didn't go for any big money items, I like all types of soul and love foreign releases with pic covers & on 'weird' labels. He came from a Euro country where even though you have to pay import charges on buys, the postage costs were decent (not many of them left these days).

HOWEVER, if you went over a certain number of 45's his postage fee jumped from just over £30 to over £430 -- no idea why, guess it was a quirk of his country's postal service charge policy. After I noticed this, I cut back my purchases by 3 or 4 singles. Sent in my order, only to be told ... CAN'T FIND A COUPLE IN THE SHOP'S RACKS, SO THEY MUST HAVE BEEN SOLD. So he refunded me the excess cash I'd sent instantly. We then went thru a dance as I added one of the 45's I'd knocked off my original order ... THAT ONE'S GONE TOO . . . .Got there in the end but it was hard work.

Excuse me you can’t be buying more records when you still can’t find mine.

On 01/08/2025 at 15:26, Steviehay said:

I don't remember my early soulbowl lists or anywhere else having pretty pics or sound files on before we became old parts

It’s super easy to add pictures with mobile phones now. Also I don’t want to pay £1500 for a VG+ and get a VG-