Bonecrusher86

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The "New Wave" of records being listed will commence shortly. But first, a post-mortem of what went right-and-wrong. The initial wave of records auctioned on eBay from Joe's collection was very much a trial.

The Good:

Several of the records sold for good values.

A pristine promo (punch-holed) copy of Rush st/ Rush debut (Moon Records MN100) sold for USD$460...

...and a gorgeous NM copy of psych Japanese acid-rock outfit Flower Travelling Band's Satori LP (GRT Records of Canada) went for an impressive USD$150.

Other records that exceeded $100 included Alice Cooper, Kiss, Queen, Rush, Stooges. And while I was chuffed about that, I was relieved that buyers received their LPs in the same condition they were shipped and were graded accurately and/or conservatively.

Representative testimonial feedback:

"A++++ ebay vendor. BId with the UTMOST of confidence!! Highly recommended!"

"Much better then expected & TX for very carefully packaged records"

"Absolutely pristine copy - packed to survive a bomb blast ... Love it!"

The Bad:

I originally listed 110 records that ended the same night. My thinking was along the lines of saving buyers on shipping & handling and enticing buyers to bid on the first record knowing they could get another one-or-two without adding to the shipping surcharge. That's was excellent as far as that goes -- but it also meant I was bombarded with packaging and shipping a LOT of records and dealing with a LOT of communication, correspondence, sorting out shipping rates etc., that made life difficult. (I have two jobs, and this wasn't one of them.) So until I get more time, records will be listed regularly but in smaller batches, possibly a couple per day until a balance can be perfected.

The Ugly:

Shipping was a nightmare. I'd sold for over 15 years at eBay.com (the original American site), but they have since changed their shipping policy on specific items (including LP records) and wouldn't permit me to ship records for anything more than a maximum $4 handling charge. The only way around this was to pull everything off the U.S. site and re-list it at eBay-ca (the Canadian site). It was a huge pain-in-the-ass. It wasn't a simple process of checking boxes on all the listings and transferring them to the Canadian site. Instead, it was a matter of cutting & pasting EVERY listing manually and re-uploading ALL the images (usually 8-12 per listing), and as I say, it was a time-consuming NIGHTMARE.

But that's all been sorted out.

The silver-lining . . . I'm now shipping directly through eBay.ca/Canada Post and there is a 25% discount automatically applied.

Check back soon for the next wave...