Pete S

Yes, had a very short shelf life though, only played for about a month if that before those TNT copies appeared. That also eventually turned up on the Fascinations cd as well, didn't it?

OK this is what I'm going to send out, reckon this is ok??? PLEASE READ - CHANGES TO ORDERING SYSTEM Hello, I'm having to make some changes to the way that the lists are run, notably in the process of ordering and reserving items. The problem is that I will often receive an email asking if an item is available. I email back to say that it is. Meanwhile other people ask about the same record, but I am still waiting for confirmation from the first enquirer, and in many cases I hear nothing back at all. In other cases, I am asked to reserve a record for someone, I put everyone else off as I am presuming that it is sold, yet I never receive payment for it from the first enquirer. I also get asked if I have an item, I reply that I have, I hear nothing so I sell it to the next person and then the original person comes back wanting to know why I have sold it. So once and for all I am going to have to sort this out, it's been going on for 8 years now and it's getting ridiculous. From now on, there will be no reservations. It's first come, first served. If you order via email, then that will be considered a sale and you will have to enclose your payment details if I don't already have them. If you don't enclose payment details, then I will not regard that email as an order. (You can ring me any time between 10 and 5 to register your details with me if you wish - I do have a large percentage of peoples details already but many are missing the 3 digit code from the reverse of the card). Obviously it is preferable if people in the UK phone as opposed to emailing. If you don't want to pay by card (or paypal), then I will need confirmation that a cheque will be sent that day and I will save the record for 4 days, if the cheque hasn't arrived within that period then the record will be re-advertised. I'm sorry if this inconveniences anyone but as you may or may not know, selling records is my only source of income, I don't have massive stocks of records, so each sale is important, and I am constantly losing sales because of this reserving and not receiving payment problem. Thanks for reading. pete

Harsh!

I've got another copy now Sian

Oh well, it ends in half an hour so if anyone wants a bargain

Ah but could you not have phoned me on monday night, or send the order attached to one of your racing pigeons?

I don't know how to do website stuff mate. I can't even put up an updated list of records.

Yeah that sounds about right mate, if I put something together will you have a read of it for me, I don't want to word it so people get put off!

I didn't think it was but now I'm not sure. I put it on ebay and it's only got 7 quid on it so it's a reissue?

The problem is though mate, they send an email to ask if the item is available and I reply either yes or no - it's then that the problem starts because if I hold it, waiting for a reply, I then get others asking for the same record but feel obliged to wait for the original enquirer to get back to me. If I could get people to make their initial enquiry the actual order, then there wouldn't be a problem.

Just going back to this original problem. Thanks for the suggestions. It's happened again today. Someone ordered a record monday night, I told them it was available in an email sent at 8.30 tuesday morning, by midnight last night (wednesday) I hadn't heard, so I sold it to someone else. I now have an email from the original person saying he is no longer a customer of mine as I sold it after six hours. It was 36 hours. What about if I just announce that I won't take email orders from the UK anymore so people have to ring through with a definite order?

What, those white mailers? They're good those, and they cost less than the brown ones from covers 33. I get them from Tramiki supplies, best in the business I reckon. If you slit them down the sides you can reuse them

I first heard the Bok To Bach vocal in 75 but it wasn't widely played as it was only on acetate, it wasn't pressed til 77 with the inst on the back. These Heartaches wasn't played (at Wigan anyway) until Jan 77 (according to my tapes and memory). So maybe it was "Sherlie Matthews" My Sugar baby, a new vocal to My Little Girl?

Dave - this is the only one I've ever seen so I wouldn't say they're around exactly. One recently sold in auction for 400 quid apparently.

Oh just about bad lads. Forget the other thing, they just said I was moaning.

Thanks Mike. One minute they were there, then they were gone, I thought something had happened buy nobody told me anything so thats why I asked. You mean they were impersonating other people? Mike I want to ask you a question, when you have read this can you look in on freebasing please?

and Ken Bates is a tootless tw*t

Would have to disagree personally, I never sell the Embers for less than £100 on demo, the issue is rare at maybe £200 (have sold it for £300 but a lot more turned up since then)

Here's a record I bought off ebay on sunday, I couldn't believe no one else bid on it. It may not be fashionable these days but it was a nice little spin in it's time and it must be mega-rare as a white demo. The only other one I've seen is on the rarest of the rare site.

Yeah it makes a change from the rather depressing freebasing room doesn't it. By the way, I know I was off list for 2 to 3 weeks but can anyone tell me what happened to the SSCDT? There doesn't seem to be any Janine, Dave, Karen, John & Ali, all that lot - what happened to them, why did they leave and I have to say that the list is a lot less upbeat without them and their extremely silly posts and sillier avatars. I really miss Janine.

Oh don't be soft, they are two completely different songs, and Sue Lynne is pretty average anyway

I've got this annoying problem and it's been happening for years and I'd welcome any suggestions as to how to go about solving it. The problem is as follows. I put a list out at say 10am on a monday morning. At 10.15, someone emails me and says "have you got the ray pollard record" so I email back saying yes I have, please let me know if you want it. I hear nothing from the person who emailed me and meanwhile 3 other people have asked about the same record. Usually I give it an hour and then offer it to the next person. Right, there's a second version of this and it's exactly the same except in their original email, they say "have you got the ray pollard record, if so please reserve it", so I email back saying I have got it and I have reserved it. I then hear nothing else. They never bother to pay for it and meanwhile I have to put people off because it's reserved for someone. This is something I should have resolved years ago but I don't know how to get round it. Should I say "If you email me to ask about a record, I will take that as a definite order and charge your card"? What if I haven't got their card details? Should I tell everyone that I will not accept any orders unless they are accompanied with either permission to charge their card, or their actual card details? Or maybe only accept orders over the phone? I've got records here I pulled for people on monday and they haven't bothered to get back in touch, even if just to cancel the order. So I now have to chase the second person who ordered to see if they still want it. I realise that this is not a major problem in worldwide terms but it's f*cking annoying. Any ideas on how to get together a method that actually works? (Oh, and why do people order records when they have no intention of buying them?)

Which is what it's all about as far as I'm concerned. I just like a record on it's merit without having to do an authenticity check on the artist.

Probably because I heard the inst first. Same as Exus Trek v If Its All The Same To You Babe. Instrumental is miles better.

Stand back and look at it though, their MGM records (2 of them) aren't worth any more than £25 each.