Sorry to be the bringer of bad vibes but i feel you should all be made aware of non recipricated sharing. I love to share Pulp music with everyone but a recent promise of swaps with a certain individual on this forum has left a bad taste in my mouth. Of course postal items do go missing but for it to happen twice i just don't believe. This particular individual has had ample time to respond to my pm's and now i'm sorry but its name and shame time.....DIXIE999/SCOTT FRAZER...COME on down.
Ouch, sorry to hear that. To be honest whenever anyone has asked me for something I tend to just upload it for them without a swap and I've certainly been on the receiving end of Will's generosity on more than one occasion. Maybe I'm doing something wrong!
Yeah, best off counting on Stephen's excellent Portfolio series and Will's generous uploads. Between them you'd struggle to need to pay/swap for 'owt else Pulp related if we're talking recordings.
Oh are we posting under false names now? A lot of new peeps have come to the forum recently and having been here in some form or another since almost the beginning it's sad to see our once close knitted gang of Pulp lovers go astray a little. However, it's probably in the spirit of the forum to turn the other cheek and get on with being the most intelligent and worthy place for information and discussion about the band we love love without this kind of palarvour. I'm sorry for your loss.
I have very little to share as, on the rare occasions I get hold of something, I immediately share it with this board, because I love you and respect you all and wish you all to indulge in anything 'Pulpy' with me.
I really don't have much to share other than videos and photos from gigs and downloaded sunday services - I have JC's musical map of sheffield which was on the radio about a year and a half ago if anyone wants it (really scraping the bottom of the barrel here...). But I would like to mention how grateful I am to Stephen, Will etc. for putting so much effort into getting all these bootlegs and stuff.
Also who is Scott Frazer? I feel I am missing something...
I have had EXACTLY the same situation with the same guy Scott Frazer. He contacted me on this forum to do a trade (after I had uploaded the mp3 of I killed the crabs...), we agreed, i send him 3 dvdr's and got nothing in return, no emails either. this took place in 2011 by the way. I didn't want to name and shame him on this forum, now I'm sorry I haven't cause he did it again. very frustrating, not even the part of not getting anything, but trusting someone and not hearing any-thing (and I tried getting some kind of reaction: loosely, irritated, funny cool, angry, disappointed, I mailed them all).
by the way, about sharing: of course, some of you may remember the "ask a bootleg" threads I started to urge people to ask what bootleg I should upload. I received some 150 cdr's from an ex-collector and I want to share as much as possible. but this Scott guy wanted it all, in trade for something that wasn't "out" there. I was naive enough to think that suddenly now I was also having stuff others didn't and this was my way to get (and free) more of the really obscure stuff... lesson learned :)
this was the last time I tried getting him to respond, I sent him this pm:
I still can't (under)stand that you tricked me into sending you 3 dvd's with rare stuff and you're not sending me anything back. so this is the way you get treated when you trust people because they're on a board of one of your favorite bands. you must have had a good laugh. yeah funny
Freek, i would suggest we are not the only ones who have been rubbed up the wrong way by this guy. But there are still some good people out there. As a few of you have mentioned, Will is a very generous guy, i have swapped/shared many items with him over the last couple of years and nothing has ever gone astray in the post. And not a penny has ever been exchanged for the pleasure, big up to Will and Stephen, the good guys.
-- Edited by DEF2 on Sunday 12th of May 2013 09:57:58 AM
So that's why he stopped posting under his own name.
My experience - I paid him for a CD of demos years ago, twenty five quid or something, before they were in circulation, but he did actually send them in fairness.
In his defence, I have traded with Scotty many times before and he's always provided what was asked. I also met him in person and swapped some tapes when we went to Auto and Sturdy's book launch because he lives nearby. Again, no problems whatsoever.
Well, I don't want to add fuel to the fire but... I agreed to actually buy some rare stuff from Scott years ago- I sent quite a bit of money through the post which was claimed never arrived- twice! Eventually I got a few songs sent by email after chasing for weeks. Just be wary about who and what you trade for/with
But like Eamonn and some others have said, there really can't be much of a need to pay money for/swap stuff with each other. Anything that can be made available is/has generally been made available. If there's something you're particularly after, it's probably far easier to just stick it in a thread rather than going through, erm, other methods to get them...
I agree Stephen, but for myself i don't own a computer so the download option isn't an option. And maybe i am a little bit old school and do still like to have a physical copy where available.
Ah, fair enough. I suppose in that sense then I have shared some of the already available Portfolios by burning them myself and sending them to contributors who - like yourself - don't have access to computers.