A New Ebay thread

[johnfowles]

Yes yet another new Ebay thread!!
My earlier one was obviously getting too long and I want to highlight a great offer that mysteriously does not immediately appear if you simply search on http://ebaylightfoot.notlong.com for plain "Gordon Lightfoot"
Indeed I only found it when on a whim I checked the seller's ebay store from the link on the auction page for a vinyl copy of the Pickwick label "The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face " album

And here is this great offer.............
an enterprising seller in Ohio is offering a number of copies of a ROIO (Recording Of Independant Origin) compilation CD he has entitled
"GL the Beginnings"



http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll...MEWN:IT&ih=010
GORDON LIGHTFOOT "BEGINNINGS" 26 Tracks - Early-Rare Item number: 200200594224
His detailed description
GORDON LIGHTFOOT - BEGINNINGS: 26 Tracks (25 by Gordon Lightfoot, 1 bonus by Richie Havens). The Two Tones "Station Breaks" and "Safety Tips" from extremely rare promotional 45 on Canadian 45 Quality; 1st 2 studio songs by The Two Tones ('Gordie' Lightfoot and Terry Whelan). Lightfoot's Chateau 45s, Fontana, Ame, Koala, Warner Bros., United Artists, and PRC ("Movin' " +2 from CN's Freight Film), and a song written by Gordon Lightfoot but one he never recorded, included here as sung by Richie Havens. All but 3 are from original vinyl sources and are very high quality sounds.
This is great as I so far only have rather low quality mp3s of the Pretty Polly/Lessons In Love single

I suspect that I have the station breaks/safety tips radio jingle somewhere which was a commercial for the Two Tones single Lessons In Love If I Remember Correctly
I do thanks to another fan already have a CD containing Ritchie's rare cover recording of a Gord song unrecorded by him
According to the "purchases" listing I was the 12th to "Buy It Now" for a total of only US$14
the first was a strange GL collector who has the ebay name davepalmer407ff2
He earlier outbid me on not just one but certainly two "Yellow Bird" Koala vinyl LPs
(you can after all only listen to one at a time!!)
If this person reads this perhaps he might comment accordingly or contact me by PM
and there are now 6 left of "Beginnings" although as a home made bootleg no doubt wfk-19489 will be making more once these have all sold out
Meanwhile first come first served of course
I also checked his on line store and spotted a rare Paul Simon vinyl album


Note for the "Sober Rodent"
(Walter) it looks like his record room has stacks of rare 45s etc
Kramer's Record Room

[johnfowles]

You all disappoint me
I thought that there might be a spark of interest in this thread but no even though it has been viewed an alleged 53 times not a dicky bird (word).Anyway when I checked the ebay email confirming my "auction" win it was actually not an auction as it was "Buy It Now" it gave the email address of the seller wfk1948 a.k.a. Mr Kraemer
and I immediately recognised that the address included the screenname of a rare message poster and corfid member
I have now emailed Mr Kraemer to try to restablish contact with davepalmerff2 who apparently lives in the UK and is still busy buying tons of Lightfoot and Dire Straits items on ebay from all over the world
(USA, UK, Australia, Portugal,Japan at least and all since the beginning of February)
Maybe if he responds he might deign to sign up here and then he can tell us all about his evident Lightfoot obsession
when I sent the email hotmail informed me that my seller was already a contact in my hotmail address book, buit any email contact with him has long since been deleted by hotmail
John
P.S.
when I first posted this new thread. my stoopid internet connection was so friggin slow that I contrived to post it twice and then found it impossible to delete the duplicate.I did however edit it in explanation and asked for help and it got deleted ,no doubt by our hard working and diligent moderator type person
thank you CHar!!

[RM]

Originally Posted by johnfowles

You all disappoint me
]I thought that there might be a spark of interest in this thread but no even though it ha been viewed an alleged 53 times not a dicky bird (word).

Well....don't take it personally. Perhaps the use of thumbnails and a bit more consolidated use of words would come in handy.