Ebay Scam

note the "Due for release 1st week of March and winner‘s copy will ship at that time" bit. what sort of idiot would bid????

Caleb,

This is really, really good stuff. I played it for a friend of mine and he said
he swore he heard one of the songs on the radio. Have you had airplay anywhere
that you know of? To be quite honest, I bought your cd as a shot in the dark.
I'm always interested in new music, especially from bands who have a very
signature sound. While the vocals remind me of the Flaming Lips, the arrangements
include many instruments or synthesized instruments you don't hear every day - was
that a zampona or quena in a couple of the songs? (Andean pipes). I greatly enjoy
your music and look forward to more from you in the future, regardless of your
college plans.

Thanks,
and good luck in your endeavours,
Brian



Myself and another friend are new fans of yours, and we're both college
radio DJs (88.7 WFNP New Paltz) so they'll be hearing you here in New
York...
Thanks and quite a bit of love from us!
T. Doran

Hey Caleb,

So I recently purchased your CD on ebay. I think it's really really good.

It's pretty inspiring. I just started listening... over and over.

Basically... I've been on my fourtrack a lot. It's inspiring to hear other

young musicians like myself out there... just creating.

Thanks!

not necessarily a scam, but i bought a record on ebay that was graded at VG+ with no mention of the deep scratch covering the last two songs of a side. it sounds like shit, popping every 3 seconds. do i try to return it? give the guy a bad rating? just deal with it (they weren't my favorite songs of the album anyways)

try to return it. claim it was inaccurately graded, which it was. if you give someone negative feedback without complaining via e-mail first, they're likely to freak out and get really upset. people are serious about that shit.

^ advice is proper ^

most ebay shit can be worked out if people just communicate without leaving hairtrigger feedback

do i have to pay for shipping?

everything is negotiable. nicely tell the guy what it would take to make you happy and see what he says.

dammit! this is the cheapest i've ever seen this record. by like a 1/3. guess this is why.

just explain the condition and that you wouldn't have bought it if you had known about the big scratch. be nice. ask if you can return it and get your money back. some people will just give you your money back and not even bother having you send it back. but some people are jerks.

i e-mailed someone and simply told them to be more careful about their grading cuz the record they sent me was slightly warped and their was no mention of this in their listing. they apologized and immediately sent money to my paypal account. and i kept the record. i didn't ask them for anything. you know? but they appreciated the non-threatening tone.

ya. i was nice :(

you could also suggest a partial refund since the LP was not in the condition you expected.

maybe that's what i'll do. i really don't want to have to mail it back to him

Be sure to mention that you have some 'friends' in the town he lives in.

Yeah, tell him that Jennifer Aniston's gonna come over and kick his ass if you don't get new vinyl, pronto.

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/290570522953#ht_1669wt_1179

(this isnt me btw) very funny anyroad.

My sister found these in her attic last weekend, where they has been sat gathering dust for the last couple of decades. They used to belong to her ex-husband, who is one of the biggest arseholes ever to draw breath. I never liked the wanker, and based my initial antipathy towards him on his taste in music. Not to put too fine a point on it, he was that most contemptible form of pond life, a Jazz Funker. This meant that as well as shit taste in music, he had appalling taste in clothes too. Pringle jumpers, pleated Farrahs, shoes that looked like pasties, white socks, revolting shirts and a comical wedge-cut hairdon't. Add to this 80s fashion horrorshow a Ford Capri and Super Mario-style moustache underlining his bulbous nose, and you get an object lesson in twatdom. No wonder Northern Soul fans (and everyone else) treated the Jazz Funk fans with sneering comntempt.

I couldn't comprehend what on earth my usually sensible sister could possibly see in the pillock. In vain I pleaded with her to send him packing. My argument that his hankering for Earth Wind & Fire records and attendance at soul weekenders made him a poor choice of mate was waved away as the rantings of a callow youth. She felt my reasoning was unsound.

Reader, she married him.

He made her life miserable for a few years with his moping, moody belligerence (and playing horrendous records like these). He told her lies and generally behaved like a platinum c*nt. Then he dumped her for his mistress when my sister was four months pregnant.

It's now nearly 20 years later and I would still like to take a meat tenderizer to his face. But his most horrendous crime, worse than wiring up my granny's shower so it was electrically live, worse even than his infidelity or the awful way he treated my sister, was the fact that he actually liked the abomination known as Jazz Funk. Here is the evidence. What a bastard.

Well, I suppose I'd better tell you what's for sale, though why you would actually want to own this dreck is beyond me. It's basically music for people who have a deep-seated hatred of music and want to inflict their pain on the
world. But here goes nothing.
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bit harsh on Sharon Redd, Love Unlimited and David Joseph but still.

lol when I sell my record collection I look forward to writing such a screed against myself

Haha "If you want to collect from Croydon, that's OK but I will look at you with a contemptuous sneer as you stand in my doorway, proving by your purchase that you are tone deaf and tasteless."

this has a new life on the facebooks already

And deservedly so, A+ writing. This made my morning!

eh that's an awesome collection and not even remotely jazz funk. what a dick