£2500 spare anyone??????

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#16 Post by Very »

beautiful... featuring two of best PSB songs ever!
Madrid / Bucharest 2007

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djx wrote:to be fair, disregarding your likes or dislikes for esprit, i think you have to weigh up how much of a completist you are. how much do you want this. how likely are you to see this again in the next, say, 10 years. i would buy it, if i had the money, but i dont. im afraid five children and a business to run means i have far more important things to spend £2500 on, but if that wasnt the case then i would want that i my collection.
I'm in the same situation with 3 young kids at home and a business.

I had to stop serious collecting around 95, only buy regular cd releases.

Anyone want a copy of Totally?

I once met the U.S. buyer for Esprit a few years ago, he bought like 20 copies of the little nightlife tour cdr that i had for like $20.00 usd, and a week later eil had them listed for $80.00 usd. so they buy cheap and sell high.

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#18 Post by DJAMIX »

Young Offender wrote:Anyone want a copy of Totally?
PM me. :wink:
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#19 Post by DJ Fairborne »

I just don't understand why anyone would pay £2,500 for a 7" record (whatever colour it is!), when both the tracks on it are available elsewhere on CD... I already have "Can You Forgive Her?" on the UK 7"/CD single, the USA CD single, on both the original 1993 version/2001 re-issue of "Very", and also on "PopArt" too. I have "Hey Headmaster" on the UK CD/7" single of Can you forgive her?, on the 2001 re-issue of "Very" bonus disc and also on "Alternative". So, why bother paying a absolutely ridiculous price for this item, when both tracks are not rare or anything?

It's not as if it's "Relentless", or the 9-minute version of TMBTPIWTL is it?

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#20 Post by Padster »

I remember the days when EIL were Esprit Mail Order - and they used to have decent-ish prices. I got the email today and was gobsmacked at the price of this 7". Thank goodness for Ebay !!

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#21 Post by Technotrancemix »

I probably would pay that if I didn't have it. Bear in mind that only 3 known pressings exist and that is what makes it collectable.

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#22 Post by Technotrancemix »

TheGardner wrote:one day....

one day in the future...




...it will be mine!
It could've been yours last week if you'd have bothered to read what I had for sale in the 'For Sale/Wanted' subforum

:roll:

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#23 Post by Technotrancemix »

Young Offender wrote:Anyone want a copy of Totally?
You offering? I could do with the red 7" :lol:
Young Offender wrote:I once met the U.S. buyer for Esprit a few years ago, he bought like 20 copies of the little nightlife tour cdr that i had for like $20.00 usd, and a week later eil had them listed for $80.00 usd. so they buy cheap and sell high.
I don't mean to be an ass but as a business, they have to make thier money somehow. Like with any other business, unless they sell for more than they buy them in they aren't going to make any money

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Technotrancemix wrote:
Young Offender wrote:Anyone want a copy of Totally?
You offering? I could do with the red 7" :lol:
Young Offender wrote:I once met the U.S. buyer for Esprit a few years ago, he bought like 20 copies of the little nightlife tour cdr that i had for like $20.00 usd, and a week later eil had them listed for $80.00 usd. so they buy cheap and sell high.
I don't mean to be an ass but as a business, they have to make thier money somehow. Like with any other business, unless they sell for more than they buy them in they aren't going to make any money
Yes, I have owned a mint copy since around mid 1992, PM if interested, thought about having them autograph it a couple of times that I have met them, but decided not to in the end.

I am a business man as well so I know about overhead and other cost, they seem to be a well established business so they don't appear to be working out of a spare room in the house, seems like they have office space, storage space, web people and packaging people, buyers, insurance, so i'm sure they need to cover these cost plus a profit.

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Young Offender wrote:Yes, I have owned a mint copy since around mid 1992, PM if interested, thought about having them autograph it a couple of times that I have met them, but decided not to in the end.
of Totally?

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Technotrancemix wrote:
Young Offender wrote:Yes, I have owned a mint copy since around mid 1992, PM if interested, thought about having them autograph it a couple of times that I have met them, but decided not to in the end.
of Totally?
Yes I have "Totally" and a couple other rare Japanese cd promos like Promotion and stuff.

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#27 Post by mole973102 »

StevePSB wrote:I'm a PSB collector, but unless you have money to burn you'd have to be slightly cuckoo (no offence Techno! ;) ) to spend that kind of money on such an item.

Glad you got good money for it though, and I really hope EIL are stuck with it forever. Their prices are truly disgusting.


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Good comment.
Who wants a blue vinyl when I have a bigger Red Letter Day 12" red one?

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#28 Post by Pani »

I was always thinking the red one's the rarest
item (vinyls I mean, not CD which would cer -
tainly still be 'Compiled' I suppose) ...
According to PSB Discography which I have re-
cently checked out about exactly this item.

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#29 Post by leesmapman »

EIL, always good for a quick laugh.

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#30 Post by Fugitive1979 »

leesmapman wrote:EIL, always good for a quick laugh.
Indeed. I've seen some crazy prices on EIL but that takes the biscuit! :shock:
:| :o

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