Sold Date: April 29, 2024
Start Date: April 19, 2024
Final Price: £129.00 (GBP)
Bid Count: 2
Seller Feedback: 4911
Buyer Feedback: 1077

One edition on 7" vinyl record of the CLASSIC and original "Tea House From Emperor Roscoe" by Dice The Boss with Ray Martell - She Caught The Train on the A-Side - Joe Records 1970 Catalogue No. JRS-3. 
This is the original 1970 UK release of the song which rarely pops up. Some are content with the reissue and I decided I'm one of them - thus I'm selling my original. 
Condition - I do not 'do' record grading. I believe there are three grades: 
(1) MINT - which this isn't and if you want a Mint/NM original of this record you'd be paying 3x the start price here if not more.  (2) "F****D" - which is a record beyond playing. And if it was that, I wouldn't be listing it.  (3) The condition this is in: PLAYABLE. Quite simply all my used records are between the two - this is to say if you pay £150-£250-£300 or even £100 for any version of this record, it's a 1970 release that will have some visual marks but this plays WELL with crackle. It gets too scientific - so I'm dialling back on that. I am selling this to PLAY. It plays - you get the tune out of it. Nothing more or less.  
My start price reflects this is a <mildly more crackly> version than the one I had originally that was a really well-kept version - but this still plays with a nice warm, thick sound as per all decent copies. My previous one was clearer and worth easily £200-£250 - this is starting at £125.00 on the understanding that this paragraph is an accurate description - it plays absolutely fine, the centre has writing on it - but almost all copies of this seem to have some form of scribble - and it has some small, really tiny - around 1mm - dints out the side (ALL pictured) that in no way whatsoever affect the needle smoothly going in at the first groove. 
I've put a buy-it-now price only because I'm content with that price but it is a fair bit higher than I predict and anticipate bidding to go so I expect a bid to knock out that B-I-N price almost immediately anyway. Can't say fairer than that!

Many auctions for eBay have that irrelevant nonsense about 'comes from a smoke-free and pet-free home'. 

I smoke 40 Woodbine a day and own a herd of Llama that become highly aggressive at the sight of anything I sell on eBay. 

SHIPPING has to reflect the true cost of the entire operation, not just the postage cost itself. The culture on eBay seems to be one where people are happy to pay £6.00 or whatever to concert ticket agents for two pieces of paper to be mailed to them. Well - I'm not a huge conglomerate, I'm a person in a front room so please don't kick off if there is a difference between cost price of postage and the charge for P+P. If I sell a record for £2.50 and charge £1.50 on postage but the stamp is £1.00, the 50p difference is more than taken off me in other ways - from eBay/PayPal fees, and my time, petrol, packaging materials that all cost money - it's ALL part of it. I come out with mere shrapnel and even then it's by pure chance - I calculate the cost of the P+P in genuine good faith.

Any return is at the buyer's expense but a full refund will be given if not satisfied.