harryengland

I know this is a few days old but the seller name sounds familiar from ebay, pretty sure I won 7/8 records a while ago and he was great (I'm in the UK and he kept adding new auctions) - let me delay payment until all his listings had finished and shipped them all together for a reasonable price. I dunno what went on in this particular transaction, but an 'ebay price' isn't the lowest it has ever sold for on ebay. Personally when offering prices to people, i'll look at the previous 3-5 sales on popsike and go for a price somewhere in the middle. Usually take off a few £ because i'd expect them to ask for more, but I definitely wouldn't say "Hey I can get this for £XX" because it sold for that price once.

You could do that (indeed that's what most people do) but eBay has introduced this scheme an increasing number of sellers are opting in because ebay are promoting it for security/easiness. Was the first time I used it so didn't think i'd get stung that badly but now when I see it advertised i'm staying well clear (a shame, because there's been some great records for good prices but I know the price will x2 or x3 under that).

Still haven't got mine from Something New. Passed the dispute date but I emailed Ryan and he said he'd send another one out on Friday (26th). Hoping it turns up this week!

Mostly all of my records sent from the US/Canada arrive okay (to the UK), had a few seam splits but generally I order 3/4 records and they come in the folded cardboard boxes rather than actual record mailers which I think helps. My pet hate with international shipping is this Global Shipping Scheme which eBay have now (when I run a Google search how can I not see people complaining about it everywhere!?). I recently won a Dads record on there for $30- but ended up paying $71! I had to pay for the sender to send to a courier, the courier to send over, and THEN customs charges based on those two sets of shipping! Without this, the sender would usually declare the parcel as a $20 gift, send for $18 postage or however much it is, and i'd get it for $38 not $71- cleared me out!