Why the hell did I bother ordering from HTFR again?

Because they were the only people on the whole fecking web who had a copy of the track I wanted... and that's the only way I would touch them.

I order tons of records every month and get sent a ton more as promos.
It is rare that I ever have any problems with any of the vinyl that comes through my letter box.

But buy one record from HTFR... it's covered in crap has dents in it, and the record itself is such low quality that I'm starting to suspect that they cut their own vinyl on the cheap somewhere or at least buy dodgy bootlegs plus it took 4 days to arrive. But then I didn't use the extra special uber platinum rip off rates.

Up yours HTFR!

Cheers
Nem

PS
www.ukdancerecords.com
www.chemical-records.co.uk
www.abovethesky.com
www.replayrecords.com

These guys give really good service and have never messed me about.

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nem- next time you are in brum chek out their store...The amount of represses and dodgy records of dubious origin they stock is quite high.....Loads of legit stuff too- but it pissed off no end when i ordered some old stuff listed as 'rare and back in stock' and it was a shitty repress taken from a really poor Mp3

Quite surprised they havent been shopped for MAJOR copyright infringement before...

i'm about to order a lot of records at www.3beat.co.uk , but i have some questions before i do. They have a great selection of records, but the prices are high, right? Especially for shipping them to holland. How long will that take. Has someone experience with them?

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Originally posted by sndh i'm about to order a lot of records at www.3beat.co.uk , but i have some questions before i do. They have a great selection of records, but the prices are high, right? Especially for shipping them to holland. How long will that take. Has someone experience with them?

I cannot say i am all that happy with my order from them. I ordered six records; after 1 month i had not received them so i contacted them and they said not all where in stock and they where holding them so they could ship them all at once, which seemed reasonable to me.

After 1.5 months i received 2 of the records. After 2.5 months i received two more. And then just the other day i received 1 more, after nearly 4 months of waiting. The last of the six they say is unobtainble, but is listed on their site as in stock. Obviously they do not stock what they have listed on their site as 'in stock'. I ended up paying a bunch for shipping too because they sent my order in 3 parts. The records did arrive in good shape, but nonetheless, i will not be ordering from them again.

hmm too bad, now i would feel bad about ordering from them. Does someone have another recordstore with a bit of the same stock as 3beat does have? Release Records?

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Originally posted by sndh hmm too bad, now i would feel bad about ordering from them. Does someone have another recordstore with a bit of the same stock as 3beat does have? Release Records?

I was similarly dissapointed because no other stores i have found have the nice stock of progressive that they do ... errr , in my experienc it was the stock of progressive they claim to have.

it's so unfair, the do have the best stock on progressive i;'ve seen so far on paper, but as u have this bad experience, i am not sure to take the risk....rather go to a store then, although the best one is many miles... does anyone have more experience with 3beat?>

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I ordered from these guys and they said this...

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Thanks for your order Jesse, by the way it seem that your card has not enough funds for it. In order to pay by AMERICAN EXPRESS, VISA or MASTERCARD you should be so kind to email me your credit card details in two or more separate emails. I mainly need the card number, the expiration day and the cardholder name.

The card is platinum and never had insufficient funds for a 20 dollar purchase...that looks way dodgy.

if you wanna check it out www.link-records.com

Hello everybody just a little plug for reality-rekords.com which is due to open around end of april mid may time
After spending half my life trawling around records shops for decent tunage me and my m8 have decided to open our own worlwide record store we have over 32 yrs experience in house music and hopefully will provide a good service to everybody who buys from us .
Initially the store will open with a back catalogue of around 5000 recs and new releases on top of that figure inc house,tribal ,prog ,trance blah blah .
We would appreciate all feedback from future customers and any ideas now on what kind of store you guys would like
cheers neil

What i really like in a webstore is the number of records in stock, or at least a marking saying "no stock". I've ordered a few records in different stores only to find out later that some were not available, and had to wait longer than a month for them to come. That sucks.

Also be sure to reply all emails quickly, very quickly. Long samples and samples of each track in a 12" as a plus

Yeah i agree you cant sell records that are not in stock so it will say not in stock .
and records that never arrive or take too long to arrive is something both me and moz have experienced particularly htfr and dfm ,in fact moz has about £100 worth of vinyl still outstanding .
And samples will be provided too and maybe pictures .
anyway cheers for your thoughts
neil

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Originally posted by RJOllos I cannot say i am all that happy with my order from them. I ordered six records; after 1 month i had not received them so i contacted them and they said not all where in stock and they where holding them so they could ship them all at once, which seemed reasonable to me. After 1.5 months i received 2 of the records. After 2.5 months i received two more. And then just the other day i received 1 more, after nearly 4 months of waiting. The last of the six they say is unobtainble, but is listed on their site as in stock. Obviously they do not stock what they have listed on their site as 'in stock'. I ended up paying a bunch for shipping too because they sent my order in 3 parts. The records did arrive in good shape, but nonetheless, i will not be ordering from them again.

i have the same exact problem with 3beatrecords.

steer clear from 3beat they are fucking idiots.