Carpenters & Ebay

[Carps1000]

If any of u guys & girls have had a look in Ebay of late u mayb 4 a bit of a surprize as the bids for some of their items is goin thru the roof. There is some items on there which are different to say the least. Flexi discs from Poland for an awful lot of money & an album called Ticket To Ride also from Poland with a cover like Ultimate/carpenters Collection/gold which looks really nice except the price...Horizon ( USA edition) is featured & from, what I can make out copies in the USA hadnt got the plastic sticker/emblem on the front ? was this the case over in the USA..ruins the design. 1 more day to go till I can find out the new placing of Ult Coll in charts over here...Im absolutely shaking with antisipation...just hope it has gone up...signs do show that it will...Havent seen any ads regarding it tho...Captain & Tennille are featuring very heavilly in an ad on our TV as they are using 2 of their songs as background music for a programme for which im not in least bit bothered to watch..Roll on Monday for the charts..will keep u posted. Carps1000 still in the UK so never have to be.

[Rick Henry]

carps1000 said:

Horizon ( USA edition) is featured & from, what I can make out copies in the USA hadnt got the plastic sticker/emblem on the front ? was this the case over in the USA..ruins the design.

In the U.S. original pressings of "Horizon" had the a sticker of the Carpenters logo on the shrink wrap - it was not affixed to the cover itself.

Therefore the copy of "Horizon" you saw on Ebay is marred as someone took the sticker off the shrink wrap and put it on the album cover. I would pay no more than $4.00 to $5.00 for this copy.

Now a sealed copy of "Horizon" with that sticker remaining on the shrink wrap may fetch a pretty penny. Possibly $25.00 - 35.00.