HW: Full Hawkestra set available for trade

[Mark Edmonds]

Now I'm getting confused. Surely the purpose of a trade is a two way
exchange? If the person being traded with hasn't got any music for exchange
(and I'd much rather trade for new shows) then they provide blanks instead?
Otherwise, you end up burning all the discs, packaging them up and taking
them down the post office for nothing in return. That isn't trading, that's
a free CD duplication service. Also, for a couple of trades I have offered
recently on this list (not Hawkestra incidentally), I have spent weeks of my
time tidying and improving the sound quality of the original sources (and
this has included buying expensive software). Surely it isn't reasonable to
expect something simple like a blank disc in return for that?

Mark

> -----Original Message-----
> From: BOC/Hawkwind Discussion List [mailto:BOC-L at LISTSERV.SPC.EDU]On
> Behalf Of Paul Mather
> Sent: 17 February 2002 16:37
> To: BOC-L at LISTSERV.SPC.EDU
> Subject: Re: HW: Full Hawkestra set available for trade
>
>
> On Sun, 17 Feb 2002, Mark Edmonds wrote:
>
> => Maybe I am using the wrong terminology? I thought the idea was
> you kept one
> => blank disc for everyone you burnt? No one has ever offered me
> a trade where
> => I just supply the discs I get back!
>
> Like I said, you need to trade on neo-quark, then. :-)  The only time
> I've heard of supplying extra blanks being common is in international
> trading, where arranging return postage is difficult for the sender, so
> the extra blanks are included in lieu of it.  The trading policies of
> all taper-friendly bands I know of prohibit non-1:1 trades.
>
> Some traders do insist on 2+:1 B&Ps.  I avoid those people.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Paul.
>
> e-mail: paul at gromit.dlib.vt.edu
>
> "Without music to decorate it, time is just a bunch of boring production
>  deadlines or dates by which bills must be paid."
>         --- Frank Vincent Zappa
>