Sold Date: October 5, 2020
Start Date: September 25, 2020
Final Price: £124.42 (GBP)
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*I NOW HAVE JUST TWO OF THESE LEFT AND THERE WILL BE NO MORE*

This is the original limited bundle of 2 Vektroid LPs offered by Olde English Spelling Bee:

> Macintosh Plus "Floral Shoppe" PINK vinyl, inlcuding original poster and working download code - 1st and only legitimate vinyl release of this hugely sought after Vaporwave classic

> Tanning Salon "Dream Castle" double BLUE vinyl, including working download code - limited and ONLY available as part of this bundle, laser etched D side

PLUS - bonus extra poster, so you can use one and still keep one mint!

STILL SEALED - note that like many copies, these may have slight vinyl discolouration in places, does not affect play.

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For background, here's an email from OESB in late 2019 they sent out through Bandcamp that explains how these copies got to market...

"OESB UPDATE - 12/10/2019

Wow, what a roller coaster decade its been for Olde English Spelling Bee!!

From epic heights to unearthly depths, oh the stories one could tell.

Maybe for another day.

But tonight is a long overdue update regarding the whole Floral Shoppe mess.

Long story short we are working with some legal counsel to try to resolve the situation so that customers still waiting on their copies can either receive their records or a refund.

This was never a scam or fraud on our end -- the problems began when Paypal froze all of our funds and then wouldn't release our funds like they promised they would after receiving proof that we were delivering orders. They would delay the release of funds for weeks/months and then only release a fraction of what was promised to be unfrozen. During this time all the conspiracy theories began in the Vaporwave circles about the release being a scam -- we were receiving several death threats daily -- it reached a point where we stopped looking at our email inbox because of all the abuse.

Then our pressing plant took advantage of this chaos and started selling copies that we (and you, our customers) had already paid for. If you have bought any copy of Floral Shoppe that did not include the download card then that was a copy that was (very) illegally sold by the pressing plant via their bootleg distributor -- this counts for any pink, white, or clear copies -- if there's no download card then it was illegally produced and sold -- in fact OESB and Vektroid never authorized the production of any color aside from the pink.

Part of the reason that very few international orders shipped is that Paypal was demanding that we proved to them as many shipments as possible before they would release any funds -- and because our funds were very limited at the time we had to focus on what was cheapest to ship (USA domestic orders) -- we had a sizable batch of copies sitting in a London warehouse intended for international fulfillments and we eventually lost those copies after not being able to keep up with the monthly storage bill. They were acquired by an Andy Rickman in the UK and are now being sold via his website, priced somewhere below what the eBay flippers are currently charging -- its a cruel cruel world / such is life / our loss was his gain -- but to our knowledge those are the last of the original sealed pink copies with the poster and download card. End of an era. End of the decade. End of this message.

Actually, not yet -- OESB will be making a comeback in 2020 -- so lovers and haters rejoice -- and if anyone out there thinks they can sincerely help on any of our legal fronts then by all means contact me at xxxxxx -- because we're looking for a Henry Moonchild type character to come in and CLEAN UP SHOPPE!!

My best to all of you,,

Todd Ledford // OESB"

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* I obtained these from Andy, who is no longer running his website and has no more copies.

* These are really the last of the genuine MINT copies you will see on the open market 

* See feedback on other sales and buy with confidence : ) 

Postage is for fully insured and tracked service.

NOTE: Parcel costs to the USA have increased significantly as of 1st July!