Fake Test pressings
Or how I was stupid enought to get ripped off on Ebay


He answered:

“Dear Magnus,
Hello. Yes, that's absolutely fine, whatever you're comfortable with. All I really needed to know was that you wanted them. I'll go ahead and get all of the Motorhead items from Bryan later this week and start sending them over to you. Once again I'll ask you to send me your full name and address so that I can make sure all the details are correct. I'll have all 4 of items mentioned by the weekend, so if you want to send a payment for 1 or 2 of the items that will be fine. As I said, whatever is comfortable for you. The PayPal address is lynnereed@tiscali.co.uk I should have everything that Bryan has regarding Motorhead within 2 to 3 weeks. The guys collection is incredible. He lives in an old Railway station, complete with sidings and all the outbuildings and currently has over 2 million records. It really is staggering to see that many in one place. So I'm sure you can imagine that it will take a little time to go through absolutely everything. Anyway, the records are yours and I'll get on to it first thing in the morning,
All the Best,
Vinnie”

So what did I do? I paid for two right away, GBP 120. Somewhere I felt this was not very smart. I discovered just some week later a topic on the Ebay forum about fake white labels! See this:

http://forums.ebay.com/db1/thread.jspa?messageID=2008770784&forumID=38&x#2008770784

Now the alarm clock really set in. I emailed Vinnie and asked him where my records were. He answered this:

“Dear Magnus,
Hello again. I hope you are well and survived the Christmas and New Year celebrations OK. I will send a parcel to you on Monday 7th January containing the 4 x Motorhead test pressings that we agreed on.
1/. 7" OVERKILL / TOO LATE BRO 67 A-1 / B-1.
2/. 7" LOUIE LOUIE / TEAR YA DOWN BRO 60 A-1 / B-1
3/. NO CLASS / LIKE A NIGHTMARE BRO 78 A-1/B-1
4/. IRON FIST / REMEMBER ME I'M GONE RED VINYL "A" LABEL PROMO.

You can send the remaining payments to the usual address lynnereed@tiscali.co.uk when it's convenient. I just thought this way would cut down on the postage. I also have the following items that may interest you. All are Motorhead UK test pressings and all are in EX to MINT condition.
1/. MOTORHEAD / CITY KIDS - original CHISWICK TEST PRESSING @ £100.00.
2/. MOTORHEAD / CITY KIDS - BIG BEAT TEST PRESSING.
We actually have 3 copies of this item, one in BLACK vinyl, one in WHITE vinyl and one in ORANGE vinyl. The orange and white ones were actually used as a colour test as opposed to a record test. The orange one has FAIL written across the label because it has a lot of red marbling in the orange vinyl and the white one has PASS and OK written on it and then signed by the factory supervisor. The black one just has plain white labels. These are £60.00 each. If you want these as well please let me know by Monday morning and I can send them over to you as well in the same package. They'll be sent by INTERNATIONAL SIGNED-FOR so they'll be covered by full insurance. Well, that's my news for now, so I'll wish you All the very best for 2008 and look forward to hearing from you soon,
Vinnie”

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