Any customers here of the closing-down sale of Soul & Funk 45's from Silverfox records?
finelikewine
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Advertised on facebook with the following offer:
"Here's the deal.....Just moved 60,000 45's into storage. This is my inventory which ive built up over the past 30 years dealing in rare soul 45's. Now i have a full time job i have very litle time to be dealing with this huge accumalition. So i have decided to try and clear as much as I can in Soul Packs. These are not surplus or fillers but hand picked which are listed on my website. Some 21,000 different titles. All have a retail value of between £10 to £30 each.So if you want a piece of them for a limited time I am offering 100 singles for £250 + £10 p&p. Choose from pack A 60's soul pack B 70/80's soul or pack C Funk 45's All are USA originals and all in near mint condition.
....Fill your boots !"
Sounds too good to be true, doesn't it?
I've received my pack today and I'm a bit disappointed to be honest. I contacted the seller and we are about to work something out.
Has anyone here ordered a package as well? Are you happy with the stuff you received?
"Here's the deal.....Just moved 60,000 45's into storage. This is my inventory which ive built up over the past 30 years dealing in rare soul 45's. Now i have a full time job i have very litle time to be dealing with this huge accumalition. So i have decided to try and clear as much as I can in Soul Packs. These are not surplus or fillers but hand picked which are listed on my website. Some 21,000 different titles. All have a retail value of between £10 to £30 each.So if you want a piece of them for a limited time I am offering 100 singles for £250 + £10 p&p. Choose from pack A 60's soul pack B 70/80's soul or pack C Funk 45's All are USA originals and all in near mint condition.
....Fill your boots !"
Sounds too good to be true, doesn't it?
I've received my pack today and I'm a bit disappointed to be honest. I contacted the seller and we are about to work something out.
Has anyone here ordered a package as well? Are you happy with the stuff you received?
Comments
What kind of stuff did you get?
Probably some filler stuff, which was sitting in his stock for years. Instead of the described resell value of £10 to £30 each most of them are worth around 5€, according to the going rates on discogs. There were also 7 records missing, out of the promised 100. As they arn't of any use for me I listed them on discogs. I guess most of them won't sell, though. I have little hope to recoup what I paid for.
I contacted the seller and he seems to be a nice chap and quite forthcoming. He offered me to send the remaining 7 records and If I would still be not happy heoffered me a refund. He told me, that the advertised resell value of the records refer to the prices he charged on his website, which differ quite a bit from discogs market value.
I just tried to post a list of the record I received. But somehow the new messageboard won't let me, as the list has too many letters. Therfore I'll split up the list in several posts below.
Eddie Lovette Me And You And A Dog Named Boo / I'm The One Who Loves You Steady Records (2)
Doris Duke Congratulations Baby / Divorce Decree RRG Records
Geraldine Hunt You Brought Joy Roulette
The Escorts Make Me Over Knockout Records (2)
Lily Fields He's A Wonder Spectrum Records (3)
The Next Movement You're The One GEC
Jimmy Ruffin Hold On To My Love RSO
Steve Bassett with Elliott Randall's New York Band Beauty Is Only Skin Deep / Private Number Stillwater
Magic City (2) Featuring Fire (5) Let's Rock Sunshine Sound Disco
Chairmen Of The Board Featuring General Johnson On The Beach / Pretty Women Everywhere (Hey Baby) Surfside Records
Brainstorm (5) Lovin' Is Really My Game Tabu Records
Billy Preston & Syreeta With You I'm Born Again Motown
Lamont Dozier Shout About It M&M Records
Wardell Piper Super Sweet Midsong International Records
William Bell Tryin' To Love Two / If Sex Was All We Had Mercury
Hodges, James And Smith Somewhere A Valley / Ain't That Right People Records (5)
The Montclairs Make Up For Lost Time Paula Records
Douglas Gibbs Cloudy Day Oak Records (2)
Chuck Roberson Lolly Pop Man Nuu-Gunn Records
J.R. Bailey Love, Love, Love / Too Far Gone To Turn Around Toy Records
Shirley Brown I've Got To Go On Without You / It Ain't No Fun Truth Records
Brother To Brother In The Bottle Turbo Records
Electric City (3) Featuring Johnny Ross (2) Gemini / We're Gonna Make It 20th Century Records
ADC Band You Can Run (You Can Hide) Uhuru International Records
Joe Bataan The Bottle (La Botella) Salsoul Records
New Birth I Can Understand It RCA Victor
Hell Storm Give Me Your Pain RCA
Glenn Jones Bring Back Your Love RCA
Dazz Band Single Girls RCA
Gloria Taylor You Got To Pay The Price Silver Fox (2)
Carol Townes And Fifth Avenue If You Leave Me (I Will Surely Follow You) Sixth Avenue
Jean Carn If You Wanna Go Back / You Are All I Need Philadelphia International Records
Alton McClain & Destiny It Must Be Love Polydor
The Independent Movement I Wanna Try Polydor
Karen Diggs You Take My Love For Granted NelWin Records
Calvin Arnold Satisfy My Woman / You'll Do It IX Chains Records
South Shore Commission We're On The Right Track / I'd Rather Switch Than Fight Wand
Odds And Ends (2) Apples, Peaches, Pumkin Pie Today Records
Brenda & The Tabulations Right On The Tip Of My Tongue / Always & Forever Top And Bottom Records
The Chi-Lites I Want To Pay You Back (For Loving Me) / Love Uprising Brunswick
Vernon Burch When The Summer's Over / Love Is Chocolate City
Pockets Come Go With Me Columbia
Dooley Silverspoon Bump Me Baby Cotton Records (2)
Irma Thomas She'll Never Be Your Wife / You're The Dog Fungus
Ann Peebles If You Got The Time (I've Got The Love) Hi Records
Solaris (30) A Case Of The Boogie / You And Me Dana Records (2)
Sonny Charles Always On My Mind Highrise Entertainment Co.
Barbara Carr Good Woman Go Bad / Messing With My Mind Bar-Car
Sandra Feva Love Came Right On Time Jerni Records
The Escorts Heart Of Gold / Sing A Happy Song Knockout Records (2)
Lloyd Price What Did You Do With My Love / Love Music LPG Records
Marvin Gaye Mercy Mercy Me (The Ecology) Tamla
B.T. Express Close To You / Whatcha Think About That ? Roadshow
Al Wilson Show And Tell Rocky Road Records
C.B. Overton Superstar Lady Shock Records (2)
Bettye Lavette He Made A Woman Out Of Me / Nearer To You Silver Fox (2)
Ray Zeiner I Had A Girl Poison Ring Records
Weapons Of Peace Just Can't Be That Way (Ruth's Song) Playboy Records
Bimbo Jet El Bimbo Scepter Records
The Atlanta Disco Band Bad Luck Scorpio Records (5)
Caroline Bernier Hold Me, Touch Me Private Stock
Marion Black I'm Gonna Get Loaded / You're Not Alone Prix
Lou Courtney What Do You Want Me To Do / Beware Rags
Four Tops I Just Can't Get You Out Of My Mind / Am I My Brother's Keeper ABC/Dunhill Records
Gloria Gaynor Let Me Know (I Have A Right) Polydor
The Glass Family Mr. DJ You Know How To Make Me Dance JDC Records
Louis Dyer (2) I Wanna Make Love To You / Lonely Drifter Little Star Records
Bobby Taylor & The Vancouvers I Am Your Man Gordy
Junior Walker & The All Stars Holly Holy Soul
Donnie Vann Disco Train To-Keh Records
The Satisfactions (3) One Light Two Lights / Turn Back The Tears Lionel Records (2)
The Joneses Pull My String (Turn Me On) VMP Records
Milt Grayson And The Mystery Guests Right On! Right On! Right On! / Good Morning World Peak Records (3)
The Moments Just Because He Wants To Make Love (Doesn't Mean He Loves You) Stang Records
The Delfonics / The Crusaders You'll Get Enough / You Pay For Love Philly Groove Records
Archie Bell & The Drells Nothing Comes Easy Philadelphia International Records
The Ebonys Determination Philadelphia International Records
The Moments Nine Times / When The Morning Comes Stang Records
Peggy Scott & Jo Jo Benson Soulshake / We Were Made For Each Other SSS International
Ebb Tide Give Me Your Best Shot - Baby Sound Gems
The Whispers I'm The One / You Must Be Doing All Right Soul Clock
Skip Mahoney & The Casuals Your Funny Moods DC International Records, Inc.
Lynn White I Didn't Make My Move Too Soon Darby
Archie Bell & The Drells Do The Choo Choo Atlantic
Ollie & The Nightingales You're Leaving Me / Showered With Love Stax
Marvin Gaye Chained / At Last (I Found A Love) Tamla
Marvin Gaye That's The Way Love Is / Gonna Keep On Tryin' Till I Win Your Love Tamla
Well, the good news is you can get your money back.
Good luck!
b/w
that scammy back-story is the cherry on top. nice guy? motherfucker is a scam artist.
I hope some other buyers will chime in in this thread and report avout the stuff they got.
What you received is exactly what I would have expected from the description.
Here is how large scale record sellers work; buy lots of records, list lots of records, the hot stuff sells, the cold stuff sits.
Over the years all kinds of cold stuff eventually sells for 10, but never as fast as it comes in.
All the stuff you listed are good soul records. Good but cold. Because the hot stuff sold long ago.
Worth the 2.50 a disc you paid. Assuming they are in NM condition.
I'll admit that I don't see any 30 records there, but in the 90s I bet he did well selling that kind of stuff.
Hopefully you bought a soul a pack, not funk pack.
Anywho, I feel your pain. Instant common hit record collection. Not the hand picked rare soul records that would take 30 years to find you were hoping for.
Just saying what you got is what I would have expected, which is why I wouldn't have ordered.
Perhaps 400 packs ago there were good things in there.
I bought a similar blind pack of sealed soul lps years ago. Can't tell you how bad it was. Worse part was I got 100 records, but only 10 different titles.
Live and learn.
But with that being said, I've bought and traded from Adey Pierce of Silverfox records, the guy who is selling these soul packs. The few times I've dealt with him, I've felt like his grading could have been slightly better, but also from experience, I think that's true with a lot of collectors from the UK. Generally speaking, we tend to grade a little bit better/tighter here in the US. That's really my only gripe with Adey. Otherwise, he's very easy to deal with and a very nice guy. You said he refunded you the money, which I would completely expect from him.
-Chris
Adey told me the 20 - 30£ price tag was referring to UK prices, which are allegedly higher than US prices. But to me this sound like bulshit. Nowadays record selling i a global buisiness and prices don't differ much, wherever you buy.
like others said, decent records in there but i wouldn't have wanted to pay 250gbp for the lot....