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texasistheSTEVENtexasistheSTEVEN Posts: 1,111
edited February 2012 in Lost Dogs
Just out of interest, what is everyones favourite trade they have made or purchase?
I wanna hear good stories about tracking stuff down, haggling, driving miles to meet people etc etc.

can we inject some good vibes into this forum, I like record/memorabilia collecting stories :D

I am currently sitting on a deal that is too ridiculous for me to comprehend yet, so excited when it lands in my lap.
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Sealed vinyl is bad vinyl.
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  • gotsome420gotsome420 Posts: 528
    texasistheSTEVEN wrote:
    Just out of interest, what is everyones favourite trade they have made or purchase?
    I wanna hear good stories about tracking stuff down, haggling, driving miles to meet people etc etc.

    can we inject some good vibes into this forum, I like record/memorabilia collecting stories :D

    I am currently sitting on a deal that is too ridiculous for me to comprehend yet, so excited when it lands in my lap.

    A fellow board member sold me a sealed version of Yield about a month ago for $120, He was local so he delivered it right to my house! I thought that was a pretty good deal considering.
  • pjtradekingpjtradeking Posts: 4,045
    Dont have a long story....But my Reeenk Roink only cost me $75... :-)
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  • cojobocojobo Posts: 299
    $35 for Riot Act & $20 for Yield on vinyl (last summer) :)
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  • StillHereStillHere Posts: 7,795
    i once traded a not so hot show ticket at the last minute for a great great great seat because a kid wanted to sit w his new gf!
    can't beat that..it only lasted a few hours, but those were some of the best hours!~
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  • BinFrogBinFrog MA Posts: 7,309
    edited February 2012
    Met a guy in a Dunkin Donuts parking lot from Craigslist a few years ago to pick up a few guitar pedals and a pedal board. I got 3 pedals and a pedalboard, which if new would have been at least $800. I got everything for $200.

    Benny Vinyl from 10C :

    Hallucinogenic Recipe for $50 back in 1995, sealed.
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  • SuziemaySuziemay Posts: 11,168
    Sealed RVM from someone here for $140 shipped :mrgreen::mrgreen:
  • flyinwhole313flyinwhole313 Posts: 1,651
    I collect Bob Dylan records, and I was in a shop and found a sealed, original first pressing Oh Mercy for $5. Well, I had an opened copy, but not a sealed copy, so I teetered back and forth while at the shop on whether I needed it or not, as I had a stack of a dozen records or so...I decided to buy it. I checked into it's value when I got home and saw a sealed copy had sold on ebay for over $300! I found a person through the vinyl message board world who bought that record from me for $450! I bought a copy of The White Stripes- Get Behind Me Satan on vinyl with my "winnings"...I don't think I will ever top that one.
  • mfc2006mfc2006 HTOWN Posts: 37,472
    a few come to mind.....

    -i won RVM in Dimi's giveaway!
    -theserialthrilla sold me Avocado for a great price!! and arq sold me both Vs & No Code for great prices!
    :D
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  • Released1980Released1980 Posts: 1,790
    Avocado Lp mint and Donkey Kong Print,,$180
    :D
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  • theserialthrillatheserialthrilla Posts: 15,760
    full 2003 boots set..(well two missing)

    $400 :shock:

    beat that
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  • Released1980Released1980 Posts: 1,790
    Oh yeah..Free Panera Bread for a year via wishlist preparty...Panera is CRACK!
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  • mfc2006mfc2006 HTOWN Posts: 37,472
    Released1980 wrote:
    Oh yeah..Free Panera Bread for a year via wishlist preparty...Panera is CRACK!

    winner!!! :D
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  • ckravitzckravitz NJ Posts: 1,668
    Wow, I am literally green with envy on some of these deals (but extremely happy for fellow Pearl Jam fans). The prices I saw on this thread for Riot Act, Yield, and Avocado are INSANE. In the last three weeks I paid 140 for No Code and 136 for Riot Act. The message: don't buy on eBay, have patience and one of your fellow jammers are bound to sell a copy, and it will be a much fairer price.

    So, who is selling me Yield or Avocado? :lol:

    Anyhow, great idea for a thread!
  • Released1980Released1980 Posts: 1,790
    mfc2006 wrote:
    Released1980 wrote:
    Oh yeah..Free Panera Bread for a year via wishlist preparty...Panera is CRACK!

    winner!!! :D

    No Doubt! 8-)
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  • landolando Posts: 661
    Riot Act from a member for $60
    Meet The Beatles, Rubber Soul (Mono), Hard Day's Night Soundtrack, The Beatles 1967-70 Double Lp, The Beatles IV, Something New and Let It Be for $30 from a used bookstore
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  • BinFrogBinFrog MA Posts: 7,309
    ckravitz wrote:
    The prices I saw on this thread for Riot Act, Yield, and Avocado are INSANE.


    Then I wont tell you that I got my Yield vinyl for free when it came out :)
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  • Released1980Released1980 Posts: 1,790
    BinFrog wrote:
    ckravitz wrote:
    The prices I saw on this thread for Riot Act, Yield, and Avocado are INSANE.


    Then I wont tell you that I got my Yield vinyl for free when it came out :)

    I'll buy it for $50 frog... :lol:
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  • pjradiopjradio Posts: 6,704
    theserialthrilla wrote:
    full 2003 boots set..(well two missing)

    $400 :shock:

    beat that
    pjtradeking wrote:
    Dont have a long story....But my Reeenk Roink only cost me $75... :-)
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  • movaughnmovaughn Posts: 1,293
    I got Yield vinyl for 25 on Craigslist a few months back.
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  • nigel1214nigel1214 Posts: 37
    Angel 45 for $8 in the just arrived section of a local record shop. i was shaking when i paid for it.
  • Empty GlassEmpty Glass In Rob's shed Posts: 12,329
    theserialthrilla wrote:
    full 2003 boots set..(well two missing)

    $400 :shock:

    beat that

    :D
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  • Released1980Released1980 Posts: 1,790
    :D:D Might as well post it here :D:D

    ISO: Yield/ binaural/riot act ;);):lol:
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  • elwayvedderelwayvedder South Jersey Posts: 9,129
    Released1980 wrote:
    Oh yeah..Free Panera Bread for a year via wishlist preparty...Panera is CRACK!

    you're welcome! :lol:
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  • elwayvedderelwayvedder South Jersey Posts: 9,129
    so how come no one has mentioned the free analog t-shirt yet? I'm here all week folks!
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  • Released1980Released1980 Posts: 1,790
    elwayvedder wrote:
    Released1980 wrote:
    Oh yeah..Free Panera Bread for a year via wishlist preparty...Panera is CRACK!

    you're welcome! :lol:

    I most certainly am.. :D And Panera as well, wife and I have been addicted since...At least 3 times a week, soup and a loaf :lol:
    "It's so nice to hear that in other parts of the world, the stress- borne from envy- that one finds for themselves is the animosity they develop towards a person selling a box of records. How fortunate!" ~ Thirty Bills Unpaid

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  • elwayvedderelwayvedder South Jersey Posts: 9,129
    Released1980 wrote:
    elwayvedder wrote:
    Released1980 wrote:
    Oh yeah..Free Panera Bread for a year via wishlist preparty...Panera is CRACK!

    you're welcome! :lol:

    I most certainly am.. :D And Panera as well, wife and I have been addicted since...At least 3 times a week, soup and a loaf :lol:

    actually, correction: it is I that is (and should be) thanking you sir!
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  • fanofzsfanofzs NYC Posts: 509
    This past December trade:

    my PJ20 Billboard and PJ20 Hampton posters = received Benaroya Hall Vinyl Box Set

    Cool posters but no real emotional attachment for me since I missed the PJ20 Festival.

    Never thought I would own a Benny at a reasonable price. My out-of pocket...$118 ;)
  • mfc2006mfc2006 HTOWN Posts: 37,472
    fanofzs wrote:
    This past December trade:

    my PJ20 Billboard and PJ20 Hampton posters = received Benaroya Hall Vinyl Box Set

    Cool posters but no real emotional attachment for me since I missed the PJ20 Festival.

    Never thought I would own a Benny at a reasonable price. My out-of pocket...$118 ;)

    that is awesome. i would have done that in a heartbeat as well.
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  • pjradiopjradio Posts: 6,704
    mfc2006 wrote:
    fanofzs wrote:
    This past December trade:

    my PJ20 Billboard and PJ20 Hampton posters = received Benaroya Hall Vinyl Box Set

    Cool posters but no real emotional attachment for me since I missed the PJ20 Festival.

    Never thought I would own a Benny at a reasonable price. My out-of pocket...$118 ;)

    that is awesome. i would have done that in a heartbeat as well.

    yep, thats a good one
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  • Pearl Jam_iePearl Jam_ie Posts: 821
    One time, I walked into a garage sale where it was an older lady running it, but she had a bunch of family members that were bringing stuff as it went along. I saw a couple crates of records and when I checked 'em out, it was tons of cool stuff. Beatles, Zeppelin, Hendrix, Neil, Lennon, just to name a few. All in great shape too. I asked the lady how much they were and she says "Oh, my son just dropped those off. He wants 75 cents a piece, and if you stick around, he just went to get some more!" I had $27 on me, so I picked out as many as I could pay for. Before I left, her son showed up again, and he had another couple hundred records in his truck to drop off. More cool stuff...Floyd, Springsteen, CSNY, King Crimson, Cream, Stones. Needless to say, I found the nearest time machine and went right back. In all I took home around 100 albums that day. 21 Beatles albums, every Zeppelin album, Bruce's first half dozen albums, 5 Hendrix albums, 7 Who albums, and obviously, a bunch more besides. It was right when I started collecting vinyl again, so it was unbeliveable to find so much stuff that I wanted in one spot, for so cheap! My dad was with me and he said "You probably got in an hour, what should've taken you 20 years to collect." He's probably right, but you never know. Never had a score like that since. Still got 'em all too. 8-)

    Best ever PJ find for me? Offical Las Vegas 2000 10th Anniversary show bootleg for $2...

    ...at a garage sale. :D
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