Smugglers Records in Bridlington, England

Reviews about Smugglers Records

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  2018-03-08, by darren mccreery
  Visited as a buyer, rather than a seller, but I really take exception to the one star review above - especially the comparisons between slavery and feeling that he/she got a bad deal on some records they wanted to sell! No doubt, the pricing of some of the stuff in this place is inconsistent - i put that down down to the owner being a bit behind the times rather than being a total shark as suggested above. I liked the inconsistent pricing - too many records shops have the joy sucked out of them by the owners acting like antique dealers and knowing the pricing so well that it makes it hard to find a genuine bargain. This place is an absolute vinyl treasure trove, if you are willing to plough through A LOT of stuff, catagorised in a way that makes no sense at all. Impossible to look through everything in one go, but a joy if you like to spend your afternoons rummaging through dusty old boxes of records. And if you don't like the price........ don't buy/sell it!!!
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  2018-01-11, by Batman Robin
  Please be warned never to take your record collection into Smugglers records. The owner is a very short, bald, goblin of a man who will fake interest in your collection just so that you will haul it all round to his grubby little lair for free. Once there he will quickly evaluate it all while commenting how worthless it all is, and if he makes you an offer at all - it will be insultingly pitiful. So now you either have to haul it all away again (which he relys on you not wanting to do), or accept his meagre offering, or even just walk away and leave it all behing for absolutely nothing at all (which many have done if the offering is zero & they cant be bothered taking it all back home again). Over the years, thousands of records have been aquired in exactly this method, then resold on E bay for extortionate amounts. This scam exploits the very locals who can least afford to be conned out of their beloved record collections. It should be illegal as well as just immoral to conduct business this way in 2015 - ita as bad as slavery in my opinion.