TRADES
RAJ
tenacious local 7,783 Posts
How many of you out there trade records these days? I probably trade like twice a year and only with homies. Too much song and dance involved for me... You get on someone's ballz about wanting a record and they expect the fucking sun, moon, and stars. It's much easier for me to outbid some dude on eBay... or better... swap MP3s.DISCUSS
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What's up with the mad flakey ring worm on the back of Axe - Seriously Deep? Worth a $10 Manne addition if you asked me.
you fuckin OCD types... jeez
I was in Piscataway on Thursday... bought 105 records for 2 bills. Meters - Struttin', Meters - S/T, First Kool and the Gang, Bohannon - Stop and Go... not a bad haul at all.
long distance trades often run like:
'you want this?'
'yeah'
'what do you have?'
'well, what are you looking for?'
ad infinitum....
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Saying though.
My personal rule is that if you want one of my pieces you better come with no more than two of your own.
Seriously though... I should have been more specific about on-line trades. I get foreign guys sending me sound clips and no titles... I do a bit of wet mouthing and the guys got me doing a tapdance trying to fork over trades...
sometimes you gotta take a step back.
ain't no particular record so important that I'm gonna romance some dude for it.
Yep In person only.
"Is this your trade pile?"
"Yes"
"here is my trade pile"
Real easy.
I don't trade if I don't get an artist & title. Maybe it's good for producers, but a 10-second 24-kbps realaudio break doesn't tell me very much.
I've had pretty good luck trading with people on this board... probably bought from or traded with 2 dozen of the regulars. The bigger problem lately is I haven't found enough good titles to trade,
A lot of the stuff I want rid of isn't of the good trade variety, that's the stuff that ebay's good for. Unless people are willing to turn minimal house 12"s into free jazz raers.
Oh yeah, I forgot--I actually have had some good trade experiences with ol' handcorkassrock.
Now, what I wanna know is how come everytime I need some $10 record & I post in the trade forum no one ever "has my back"? I've sent you bastards covers when you needed 'em & all kinda shit! weak...
Crink... I found the Dionne Warwick Moder Soul killer last week for $2. Thank you for pulling your auction.
I cosign with aggression on this one hommie. I'd rather just buy and hoard.
My problem is that I've been paring down my collection (no hoard-o), so I don't have "extras" of many things. "Do you have _____?" Yeah, but only one copy. And if it's still in my home after the last three purgings, it's probably gonna stay there.
My only gripe is when I offer LPs for trade and all I get are PMs saying, "What do you want for that?" I feel that if you want a specific LP from someone, it's your responsibility to make an offer.
I heard--and I'm not saying from who--that that dude gives bad trade!
Yeah, I feel like you ripped me off on that one.
Can I trade it back to you for my old copy of "Electric Circus"?
DOPE!
A sidenote: has anybody else noticed these crink types on eBay billing records as "NORTHERN MODERN SOUL"?
Homie finds a double of a certain grail and wants to work out a trade. You throw a lot of great music in and he seems satisfied... Fast forward a few days and he sees it goes for 3 bills on eBay and all of a sudden he's trying to extort more shit out of you... because due to his calculations all the records you relinquished ='s about $150 worth.
"Yo, you tryin' to rip me off, RAJ? According to my man RECSIM, that's a $317.88 record!"
haha! "crink types"...
Oh yeah, DON'T KNOW IT BITCH!!![/b]
twice so far me, digdug, marco, and a couple of other dudes have had a good trading/listening/drinking night. have made pretty good trades like that both with hooking people up and getting stuff. it's good when there's several people all trading cause then you can make with the complicated 4-way trades with 2008 draft picks involved and shit like that.