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Oh , and I should mention one other piece of news.  It doesn't matter if you paid $300 or $1000 for Kidd Wikkid , it won't be worth much when the re-issue comes out in about 3 weeks.

 

   

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For once I feel glad I dont own this CD

No need to apologize to me dude. Thanks for clearing the retracting situation in PM for me. I take your word on it and would like to retract my previous statement accordingly.

Cheers

Scoobydoomelinda

OMG, I'd never buy form a seller with such ID name

No, seriously, that's what makes eBay the prime cesspool on earth - all those foul cheathing tactics of ripping customers with "handling" etc.

Now saying that I recently bought two LPs from GEMM for $22.99 and $12.99 plus shipping (undetermined on GEMM receipt), GEMM charged me a whooping total of $51 several days later, and I got the LPs today with media mail sticker on them for $2.50... who got the rest $12 and for what, no one knows

Nono, I didnt mean for you to sit and take it. That's why the forum is - argue and sort it all here as much as you like. Going on eBay and screwing the guy raising up the bid and then retracting so it will go to his maximum is not something one should be proud of, no matter what excuse. That's how I see it.

check out the "what cd's did you buy this week" section...I did pick up the kidd wikkid over the weekend at a great price......so I dropped out of the bidding and retracted my $700 bid, I paid $350 including overnight shipping..........

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Mmm guys, I definitely dont want to get between the hammer and the anvil, but I think you are going too far in this... some forum werbal war is okay and I can see both points in this argument, but once you start making hostile ebay attacks it could get very ugly in a downfall... better stop for a second and think about it,

just my 2 cents

Maybe we should make an anti-Jamez seller's guild?

We can have some cool "ANTI-JAMEZ" banner posted on our auctions - something similar to the "no drugs" logos on the old Roadrunner releases

I've been lucky recently not to have Jamez bidding on my auctions. He knows that the moment he bids on me, his current reincarnation is doomed and gets terminated in several hours, so apparently he keeps clear - thank you Jamez!

It is a very steep uphill battle of trying to spot him and block him before he bids, so I dont bother and deal with him only when necessary.

this is a grea site, I use it to reference alot of my music.

But people....you can get much of this stuff for free.

I currently use e-mule and Ive increased my collection by 20 gigs in 3 weekes alone....

 

MUSIC CAN BE FREE>>>GO GET IT

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I dislike the P2P clients in general for all the piggyback ad/spyware they sneak onto your PC. eMule is okay because they do have binary version, but it is a bitch to try downloading something with it.

I tried it to download some English premiership soccer games, and got people leaching form me the very second I connect to their network, while in contrast I had to wait HOURS to get someting coming to me with the whooping speeds of 0.5kbps ... and then if you dont download something very popular the chance of getting stalled is very real and makes it worthless. It is very frustrating to spend hours downloading to 96% and get stalled, so in 2 words, or one emoticon -> p2p

Oh yeah, almost forgot, Music can be free, but that's called STEALING and is a bloody lame!

Is it legal to sell bootlegs in the US???

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Of course not, but some people make living on it nevertheless.

It is the same plague all over the world, not only in USA

vrossino has been NLARU'd 

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Man, you spot and terminate poor Jamez faster than an Orkin man can kill a cockroach!

Thanks for the link Dan,

those look okay. Ideally I'd like to see a bit more pages on the booklet, but for the given retail price they sell them on their website, 4-page insert is fair enough I guess.

So overall Wounded Bird releases packagewise are compatible to what other label? Old Metal Records releases maybe? Cheapest one: one page insert 4:1 color?

"proper" re-issues?  Ask some of the people over at melodicrock.com how they feel about Wounded Bird re-issues and then you can start throwing that word around.

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As everyone can see my comment is solely based on ALL positive responses left here regarding Wounded Bird re-issues. If everyone here who left feedback and stated they are proper official silverback releases lied, then scowl at them, not me

I purchased Loudness - Thunder In The East on the Wounded Bird label and was very satisfied.  They seem legit all the way around.

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Yep, they already replied to my e-mail. I'm glad I've been wrong and they are cool business giving some 80es stuff proper re-issues

Yet again Stormspell puts his foot in his mouth.  According to him EVERYTHING is fishy and EVERYONE is booting.  You really need to get a life.  There are about 6 or 7 LEGIT re-issuing companies in the world right now.  Accept it and move on.  The ebay police-thing isn't working for you.  Are all Russians this 'fishy'?

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Haha dude,

I was just questioning the logic in re-releasing WINGER - the most popular bargain bin cd ever to be found. Especially the way they did it without any new bonuses or new artwork or whatever - very unwise investment in my opinion.

Anyway, seems I was wrong and I'm first to apologize to Wounded Bird if they are indeed legit label. More power to them! I'm glad there are still people who put money into PROPER re-releases

These guys out of New York specialize in re-ssues. They've got some Kix, Loudness, Bulletboys; even Maynard Ferguson for Dan. Can anyone vouch for them?

 

http://www.woundedbird.com/

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Now that's what I call FUNNY label name

but now let's see... Who in their right state of mind would re-issue WINGER - In the Heart of the Young - the most popular $0.99 bargain bin find ever???

I smell something fishy

Ya, sure looks like his usual ID jma17356, but written backwards.

Good job spotting him Michael!

Ye man, call and reverse the payment asap!

The saddest thing is that such shit started to become trend. I got ripped off by a musician who never shipped the merchandise to me recenty (something similar to hsf story with Nineteen88).

The problem is that after ebay introduced the mutual withdrawal option most of the withdrawn negative feedback reminds hidden.

Correction: I see this tool reports the mutually withdrawn feedback, cool!

I entertained myself sending him "Best offer" of $2 for his KEEL CD

http://cgi.ebay.com/Keel-The-Final-Frontie...1QQcmdZViewItem

Ron and the band are working on getting the whole back catalog reissued, and also releasing a live cd from their last tour of japan plus alot of other things.......He is quite pissed over the Greek Bootleg as well as the one "century-moon" is selling......But actually with them being in other countries there is not alot he can do about it.......But like you said, the least they could of done was recorded it........

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Well, advise him to sign up for eBay VERO program and to terminate every bootleg auction! It is very easy and the most effective method of fighting back the bootlegs, as none of the power sellers would risk the chance of getting their hefty accounts permanently suspended.

Once he signs up for the program then he can authorize someone else to monitor eBay for him, if he is busy traveling, but he needs to do it, because once the market gets presaturated with the bootlegs it would be pointless of re-releasing them at all.

Its called shillbidding and is forbidden by ebay rules. But then ebay had proved they tend to close thir eyes for some bad stuff, and yet overjumped the gun for something absolutely pointless. Thus scumbags like James arWHINE will always be permitted to make new accounts using the very same name adn address and credit card. It is just good for ebay business I guess

thanks for the heads up on redkatalin2005. I'm about ready to post some cool AOR/Melodic stuff on ebay and people like karl or jamez would be the first to come and screw. Now at least I can block karl temporarily

It is an option they had to include because of some European privacy rules and regulations. For the same reason you cannot see any past activities by German bidders.

Ya, I really dont know why someone would state "Asian Release" and then will put backtray picture which has this big bold legit sign "MADE IN USA".

If you want to swindle someone, at least learn how to use photoshop

Or maybe in this case he is Asian, and U.S.A. simply means "Utterly Self Assmebled"

Yep, and here steps the helpful and caring criminal who kindly provides the music to them for the mere $102

But you are right, its up to the masses to realize and stop buying.

As far as there are people wliling to buy such subpar products at such ridiculous prices, there always will be greedy people bootlegging it. It's how the world goes