I first started collecting old records in 1992, when I was only 24 years old, I built up my collection to about 2000 records, the most valuable being worth about £200.00 at that time. I collected for about 3 years scouring as many car boot sales & jumble sales as I could get to each weekend, and the odd set sale/auction in the record collector magazine. Then I met my now wife, we did the buying a house thing and the records had to go! So reluctantly I sold them to fund a deposit for my first home.
12 years later I was browsing Ebay's online auction site, when I discover the old record section, I was hooked again. At last I had found somewhere I could get the hard to find records I had yearned for all those years ago. I remember making phone call after phone call to someone advertising a copy of The Skyliners - Since I Don't Have You, in the Record Collector magazine, I bid up to £120.00 and lost out I missed the auction deadline. But now thanks to Ebay, I could easily get any record offered for sale. All I had to do was offer the most money, simple.
So it began again. I was soon winning plenty of records some I had only dreamed of owning. Of course I had to pay top dollar for them but who cares, it's only money. I now scan Ebay's doo wop & rock n roll section like a hawk for that rare record I desperately covet. Although I generally make myself a rule that if I don't like the song I don't buy it, No point if I am not going to listen to it.