Brad

That looks nice. I need to get away!

I can relate to what vibes is saying. It's a strange feeling, that's true. About a budget, I had cut back but wanted to buy more and although I'd been selling off some excess cds, it wasn't getting me much. So, I've started selling some of my baseball programs and year books to pay for things. I've been collecting these since I was a kid but they don't mean that much to me any more. Plus, how much stuff can you keep that you've accumulated. I didn't know what to expect when I started selling on ebay but I've been pleasantly surprised. Without the money from these sales I wouldn't have been able to place an order with Hiroshi.

On the Buddy DeFranco, do you mean In a Mellow Mood. I can't find Pretty Moods in AMG. Is this one of the cd with Sonny Clark?

I never thought of paying him in dollars. Somehow letting him take the hit seems a little unfair. When I compared xe.com versus paypal, I was taking an $8 hit. Paypal has you coming and going.

In this board, we always talk about Hiroshi's great service and it's true he has great service and his prices are the best. But I think he's outdone himself this time. On Thursday, Hiroshi emailed me that he had sent out an order that he's been putting together for me. I expected to see this around Thursday of this week, although I was hoping for Wednesday. However, I received it today and couldn't believe it. How's that for service. Heck, it takes some packages from New York to get to me in that much time. Hiroshi's service can't be beaten, in my view.

I don't believe the Teddy Wilson is on the endangered list but even if it is I'd go for the Kelly set. The music (and the sound) is just superb. I don't have the Wilson set but I'd read a few comments here that after a while it got a little tedious. On top of that, you also get Frank Strozier in the Kelly set. That's a big plus, in my book.

Or maybe they were taking up their tax(es) but forgot to take up the carpet first

Bill, You may be right in certain respects. Maybe I just don't get them yet. Unfortunately, my resources are limited and while I'd like to check them out, I just can't do it right now. BTW, you overestimate my ability to stop the presses on this thread.

I can honestly say I have a clean record today. Next week will be a different story. I'm expecting a shipment from Hiroshi

Tom, These kinds of threads do not belong in Discography. They really should go in Reissues or Recs. There's been too many of these threads here lately.

He IS the hard bop preeminent pianist of the late 50s early 60s for me. One of my favorites.

I guesss I wasn't clear but why does Angel show up on that technical difficulties pages since Mosaic has nothing to do with them unless they're linked to EMI and their page is down also.

Who is Angel and Manhattan. Isn't Angel a classical records reissuer?

Guilty as charged and I promise if I have the chance I'll do it again I bought 3 cds from Hal. He was very friendly, got 'em real fast and they were all great. I'd been looking for the Richie Kamuca Quartet on Mode for awhile so thank you Hal

Thanks for the tip. I'll check 'em out.

I'm also looking for this cd also. If anyone has one to trade or sell, please send me a pm. Thanks.

I'm looking for a copy of this cd. If anyone has one to sell or trade, please send me a pm. Thanks.

I've obviously been very lucky because I've never experienced the antics that you guys have experienced. I've been stiffed a couple of times but not on big ticket items. Which brings me to my next point. I think ebay is great for things like cds and items that aren't too expensive. If someone stiffs me for $30, I won't be happy (to say the least) but I can get over it. However, I'm not sure someone I don't know or an item I haven't seen when we get into the thousands. I'm just not comfortable with that.

Weizen, what I was trying to say is that someone with 95% I dismiss out of hand. I wouldn't deal with them. If somebody's at 99.5% and above, no risk. However, if it's around 99% and into the 98s%, I get a little leery. Usually, I'll take a closer look at their feedback and if they're generally clean for 6 months, I'll bid on their stuff. While all this may not matter to some people, my resources are not unlimited and I don't want to lose money needlessly.

I'd have to disagree with you about being a corrupt system. I've been on there for six years now and that's not my experience at all. I do think people participate in it and when dealing with sellers I look not to see if they're in the 95% range (tha's bad) but in the low 99s or high 98s. If they are, I try to avoid them. I think it's a self policing system and I think it works reasonably well. As a rule, I'm very loath to give out negative feedbacks. It's just something I don't like to do. I've done it but probably not more than 3 or 4 times in six years.

I hate to get legal on this but the basis of your argument is that Hal had promised him to refund his money and that therefore he couldn't have bargained the buyer's money back for the promise not to leave negative feedback. However, any deal or promise to be binding must have consideration. If there's no consideration, it's not enforceable. If Hal had said, I'm not going to refund your money, the buyer would have no recourse. It wasn't part of the original transaction and Hal's offer to refund the money was just a mere promise or offer on his part. For Hal's offer to become binding, the buyer would have to have offered something in return, either positive or negative. To be binding, there must be something flowing both ways. It doesn't look to me like the buyer did. Therefore Hal's initial offer is not enforceable. However, when Hal made his offer with the requirement that the buyer not leave a negative feedback and the buyer agreed, then you have an agreement because there was consideration. Consideration can be both a positive act (e.g. paying money) or surrendering a right that you would otherwise have (e.g. agreeing not to leave feedback). Regarding leaving feedback. As a seller, I always give feedback. I feel it's my obligation and a courtesy to do so. However, as a buyer, I won't leave it until the seller does. If he doesn't have the courtesy, why should I? I recently bought a cd and the seller said that he doesn't leave feedback unless I ask him to. My feeling about that? Screw you. It's your obligation to leave it and I shouldn't have to remind you to do so.

How is that extortion. That's called making a deal. You want your money back, here's the deal, etc. He doesn't have to agree to it. It's not blackmail or whatever. He just won't get his money back.

99.99 % is not strong enough. I'll go for the whole 100%.

Tom's list doesn't really any sense because they all belong in the Hall of Fame. Perhaps we should turn the question around and say who is the most influential person in the history of jazz (or perhaps three people)? That's a very easy answer: it's Pops. Again, if you choose the top 3, it's also very easy, Pops, Ellington and Bird. After that it gets harder.

I'm not as crazy about Some like it Modern as their earlier BN stuff and can't comment on the other cds but it could also have something to do with Alfred Lion's influence since he was always looking for a certain sound out of his artists. This is probably a question for Dan Gould who has more of an extensive collection than I do as I only have the pre 66 material.