Jordirip

It's like gambling. If you bet a million quid on something you better be able to afford to lose it. Don't put a million quid as your high snipe unless you can afford to lose it.

Different rooms different dancers. Sherrel Bros has been a floorpacker for a good while at certain places but you tend not to get the 'i'm a teapot' northern by numbers dance class dancers at those venues and they're not scared of beats that tie your legs in knots. I agree it's not a 'northern' dance sound in the Wigan traditional sense of the term but thankfully there are places that cater for these kinds of sounds and dancers that love 'em.

Ebay UK by any chance?

Agree. I get the hairs standing up when I hear Freddie Chavez and I get the hairs standing up when I hear the Hopkins Brothers. It's all about context, where you hear the records, the vibe of the night, the mood you're in and the associations you make when you hear the record. New discoveries haven't had long enough necessarily to slip into that warm blanket of happy memories and nostalgia that the old classics have had, but I've no doubt there will be as many reverred classics down the line which are new/recent discoveries at the moment.

A cautionary lesson for snipe bidders perhaps?

Me too. They all went to Malcolm's shop in Willenhall in the Midlands. The shop shut down a few years ago but I've still got a bloody credit note for all my boots and pressings. I only got rid of them to make room for my first born's cot in his bedroom. Who'd have known they would go for money on Ebay?

There's also the Sisters Love - 'Give me your love' orig on Mowest, also on La Coup.

Our David's O'Jays c/u for a few years I'm sure he won't mind me saying. Top class tune.

You're right, I wouldn't have known that, he might have had a million quid as his max. What I meant was, my max was quite a bit higher than the end result, so at the very least it would have pushed someone else's max bid a lot higher.

Also, you can adjust your bid amount lower or higher nearly all the way up to the end without you having commited yourself to a high bid where you start to shit yourself and hope you don't win it, or think b*llocks I haven't bid quite high enough but nobody else has bid yet so if I bid again I'll be bidding against myself and won't get the bargain I'm hoping to get....damn it!! Sniping does away with all that mental trauma.

Yes, that's what happened to me last night. I wonder if there was a mass attack on accounts last night. Anyone else have their account blocked?

Totally agree Pete. Although last night I had a snipe ready to go on a want record and when i woke up this morning the snipe hadn't gone off. It turned out that Ebay in their wisdom had decided someone was trying to hack my account so put a block on my account which meant that Gixen couldn't snipe. I would have won the bloody thing as well!! I wasn't happy as it hardly ever comes up for sale. Where's the red angry smiley?

I wouldn't disagree with that at all in principle.

I think you've got to be careful that you don't scare off the people who sell stuff only occasionally. For me, the most interesting sales are from people who don't do it very often and it could become boring as a buyer if only the sellers who regularly sell, and have paid their £25 subs, become the only source of vinyl on here. I occasinally sell stuff to fund other purchases, but I wouldn't bother if I had to pay £25 a quarter as it wouldn't be worth my while.

THE ALPACAS - LOVE IS A WINNERS GAME / SOMETIMES I LOVE YOU GIRL - DOUBLE TAKE VG++ £230 SOLD wow this is an incredible double sider from the Carolinas, one mid tempo and the other crackin uptempo can't remember the last time I saw this one for sale, grab it quick. A couple of scratches on the flip that don't cause any problem. Paypal friends and family. Normal postage rates. PM please. Thanks...Jordi

Hard Drivers was a bargain and a half for someone.

Any vinyl Dave or is it just CD?

Get in line.

I'm sure there's a dance class nearby that can help you with that.

Exactly. If it was an opportunity theft by some chav/scrote it's quite possible they were thrown over a fence before they got to the next 'Subway' sandwich shop.

What were the circumstances?

Just think it's a dumb comment that sounds like something a school kid would say. You can't write off a whole genre of music as shite, it's ridiculous. As for jazz influenced artistes as opposed to actual jazz artistes, I'm not sure of the relevance. What ends up on the record is what we're talking about. Does it mean that he hates all the many northern soul records with jazz overtones? Towanda Barnes, Ramsey Lewis etc. Anyway. I'm not having an argument about it, but I do agree that Nina Simone should not have been played on the northern scene although I did have it on the 10" UK EP at the time.

Terry Callier, Cal T Jader, Gil Scot Heron, Lou Pride, Soulful Strings, Celeste Hardy, etc, etc etzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz

That Billy Young 'Suffering....' was cheap if it really was an orig.. It must have been affected by the identical looka like boot that's also for sale.

He can't be surely. I thought Steve Jeffries was selling his DJ collection of unnamed carver boots on ebay. What will he DJ with?