Oh yes...now I remember
There is a record label here based in London called JazzmanRecords. Very cool if you like funk and stuff like that. They have a subsidery label called JukeBox Jam. They issue old RnB and wierd Rock N Roll from the 50s and 60s. Anyway, the first record on this label i managed to accure two isses of. One i got direct and I think another was a friends who didn't want it anymore. About 3 years later, this record is worth quite a bit of cash, so i think, well i've got two, sell one, buy some more vinyl and then have the other for the collection. So i sell it on ebay and get a decent amount for it. very happy. Until, about 2 months later when i am out DJing and when i get home I realise that said record is missing. I double and triple check, but it's definitely not there anymore. I go back to the venue, but its not there and no one has seen it. Gutted. Not the first time someone has stolen a record while i'm DJing.

So about a week a later, i email Jazzman and say "If you have any unsold stock, could be warped, could be missing a label, faulty. I don't care, i'll pay for it, I just want the collection to be complete cos i'm a bit of a obsessive compulsive."

Next day, in the post, with the rest of the records i ordered, is a brand new, perfect condition copy of the reoord, with a little post it stuck to it which says "Look after it!". It doesn't leave the house, and i think, since its worth a lot of money, one of the niceist things anyone has done for me. Especially in the brutal world of record collecting. Plus, the best example of customer service I have ever encountered. An absolute legend.
(Hendrix73, Tue 14 Feb 2012, 12:25, 4 replies)

Jazzman are a superb label.
I used to buy records off Gerald (I think his name is) at Camden Market many moons ago. Great chap, excellent taste, and generous to boot, it seems.

Nice one.
( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Tue 14 Feb 2012, 12:35, closed)

Yeah thats him. Top bloke.
(Hendrix73, Tue 14 Feb 2012, 12:40, closed)

Coincidentally I had a record delivered from there just today
A superb collection of European Spiritual Jazz, all of which is available to listen to for free on the site (which is what persuaded me to buy it.)
I was put onto him by a friend who, like you, obsessively collects his tittyshaker 7"s
( tangledupinblue hairy badge with moving eyes, Tue 14 Feb 2012, 20:19, closed)

Sounds like you and your friend have great taste. Got Spiritual Jazz myself last week, and it is amazing

(hendrix69, Tue 14 Feb 2012, 21:10, closed)