Pete S

Oh right, so they only manufactured 20 copies of a Ric Tic record, gave them to band members and their families and destroyed every other copy on earth. You theory sounds SO much better than mine.

Don't ask that! You'll get abuse from 'member' Louispaul, like I did, for asking exactly the same question. Although he posted in French first

Foundations?

Plus it's £100 overpriced!

Thank you Jordi!

have to laugh at this becaise I thought it was called "Black feeling in motion"

Just a stereo version and a mono version I think.

Just back your itunes up anyway, took 24 dvd discs to back mine up recently but if anything happens, got them permanently.

Er......yes, that's right!

I was contemplating what you said here Grant and eventually I came to a conclusion. It's sh*t.

Good point and I think that happens a lot.

Going by the quantity of other Ric Tics, there must be 20,000 of these in a warehouse somewhere lying undiscovered, I can't see Ric Tic doing short runs on anything except the first handful of releases. Even the two rarer later ones, Edwin Starr and Fantastic Four - there must be at least a thousand of these in the UK at any given time.

I pushed my luck a bit on that one because I knew if I listed it at £150 I would three or four people wanting it so I priced it higher knowing the person who really wanted it would get it - and I don't like doing that sort of thing to be honest but I'd definitely seen it go for over £200 so I thought why not.

Cheers Grant

OK mate thanks a lot

Have you seen the price of that Bobby Paris just listed?

If you can mate or reel them off down the phone

Well that was a f*cking useful post wasn't it

I like it when someone emails me on the off chance asking if I've got a record, and by luck I do have one, so I write back and say yes, I"ve got one for £40 (inevitably cheaper than the last one they've been offered) and the guy comes back and says "will you do it for £30"?

I understand, thanks for explaining and the kind words. I spend most of my time looking on ebay for 60's reggae stuff and I see people asking crazy prices for records in shocking condition, I wouldn't buy them if I was a millionaire, there's one on there I saw today by The Slickers on Blue Cat, a mint one is worth maybe £30, the guy has a no centre torn label one in VG minus and he wants £125....what planet does he live on??

I don't know if anyone remembers me running the advert below, it was about 18 months ago, anyway I thought I'd ask again if anyone has quantities of cd's they want to sell, especially Kent / Ace / Goldmine titles. If you were thinking of getting rid of a collection of cd's or they're just stored away and you never bother with them anymore, maybe have a think about selling them? pete.smith@freeuk.com 01902 326306 As you may remember, I sold all mine a couple of years back, I had practically every Goldmine and Kent release, anyway I am regretting it now and after seeing someone put a collection up for sale on Soul Source and me missing out on it, I thought I'd ask to see if any of you were contemplating selling their cd's and going over to hard drive and itunes or whatever. I've not got a great amount of money to spend, but it doesn't hurt to ask, does it? Don't need any mp3's or pirate copies, just originals cheers pete

The worst part about selling, and I've said this a thousand times, is when people ask if you've got a record, you say yes, so you reserve it for them and then you wait...and wait...and eventually you lose the sale - or - you get fed up of waiting and sell it to the next person who asked. At that point the original enquirer will pop up and say he is ready to pay now and then he will call you a tw*t for selling 'his' record. Despite the fact you've waited 12 hours not knowing if he was going to pay you or not because he never replied to your email saying the item was available.

Do you mean everybody's thinking it about Keith, or about dealers record prices in general? This is how I price records. Either: look in the price guide then knock a third off, or go on popsike, find all the sales and get an average price, then knock it down slightly, or look on soul source, see if the item sold, if it did, sell it for around that same price, if it didn't, knock £10 off the selling price. Sometimes I go by my gut instinct, for example yesterday I had a stock copy of Wooden Nickels - Nobody But You, price guide says £150 but I knew I'd never had this before on an issue and it must be very rare, so I priced it higher than the price guide at £200 (actually took £190 on it). So basically, if someone told me, personally, to reduce my prices, I'd have to question whether they were sane or not

You can say that again...

Spot on Tony, Popsike seems to cherry pick what it lists, I often look back to try and find stuff I've bought or sold and it's not there.