Overambitious Amazon chancers

[martin]

Here's a thread to celebrate the current trend among Amazon sellers - charging prices so fucking loopy that they surely can't expect anyone to pay them

I nominate this as the winner. I've actually got this and it's OK, if you like clanging Fall-type pop, but price-wise, check it out

Amazon product ASIN B000008493
An old favourite here as well - Amazon product ASIN B000YVBDQU

 

[STN]

I've always liked this one, though it's gone down a bit lately, presumably as everyone's downloaded it off limewire and realised it's a load of old crap that Phil Jupitus probably likes:

Amazon product ASIN B000008MDK

 

[mixed_biscuits]

An old favourite here as well - Amazon product ASIN B000YVBDQU

And the case and CD are 'very worn' to boot.

 

[martin]

Ooh, still £115, not bad. Sort of puts him in the Coil 2nd album league = Amazon product ASIN B00005LIQL

 

[Mr. Tea]

Amazon product ASIN B000008493

Haha, I love the fact it's customer-rated at two stars as well.

 

[STN]

Again, gone down somewhat but still a touch galling:

http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/offer-listing/B000000IZ2/ref=dp_olp_2?ie=UTF8&qid=1201701713&sr=8-1

 

[swears]

When I was about 14 I had a girlfriend who's big sister was an indie kid who loved obscure acts. I distinctly recall us laughing at the name "Yummy Fur". Still never heard them, though.

 

[STN]

My big sister was kind of an indie kid, she used to like this group called Betty Seveert who were literally mind-bogglingly dreadful.

Edit: No, I wasn't swears's grilfriend when he was 14, thanks very much.

 

[crackerjack]

So is Amazon the place to go to sell your old stuff for sky high prices?

*eyes light up*

 

[Mr. Tea]

When I was about 14 I had a girlfriend

So what happened to the old swears magic, then?

 

[martin]

When I was about 14 I had a girlfriend who's big sister was an indie kid who loved obscure acts. I distinctly recall us laughing at the name "Yummy Fur". Still never heard them, though.

They were good, sometimes a bit irritating in large doses, kind of like late Capt Beefheart / early Fall with sex-obsessed lyrics. Incredibly, they once featured two members of Franz Ferdinand (they sound nothing like FF).

I think they ripped the name off the acid freak-run barber shop in High St Kensington Market, I'm sure that was called Yummy Fur in the early 90s.

 

[hint]

Amazon product ASIN B00000E9OD
Customer Review:

It's across between Taylor Dayne and Pink

 

[Mr. Tea]

My big sister was kind of an indie kid, she used to like this group called Betty Seveert who were literally mind-bogglingly dreadful.

Speaking of mind-bogglingly awful indie bands, does anyone here remember Bis? Judging from what I saw of them from TotP, they're a good candidate for Worst Band Ever. They seemed like the musical incarnation of that irritating chubby girl you knew at high school, who had pink hair in bunches and a satchel covered in pin badges.

 

[STN]

Of course. I once threw an aubergine at them.

 

[Mr. Tea]

Of course. I once threw an aubergine at them.

I think you're my new hero.

 

[noel emits]

So is Amazon the place to go to sell your old stuff for sky high prices?

*eyes light up*

It's the long tail and the global marketplace isn't it?

If you punt out enough stuff at outrageous prices someone is bound to pay for some of it.

 

[tom pr]

I remember spotting a bloke flogging The Bug's Pressure LP and the Aktion Pak 12 inch for fifty quid each, that's as absurd as I've seen. Amazon sellers can be ace if you're prepared to wait three weeks to a month for stuff: I got Merzbow's Synth Destruction album new for about two quid, and some Bumblebee Unlimited stuff for about the same price.

 

[swears]

So what happened to the old swears magic, then?

She left me for some 18 year old fella a year later. He could take her to the pictures in his mum's Corsa, hahaha.

 

[STN]

Some cheeky beggar wants 108 nuggets for this:

http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/offer-li...olp_1?ie=UTF8&s=gateway&qid=1201707215&sr=8-1

 

[Mr. Tea]

She left me for some 18 year old fella a year later. He could take her to the pictures in his mum's Corsa, hahaha.

I can't help but read that in Jarvis Cocker's voice.