Saw something from bygone days in the newsagent yesterday ........

axisus

......A copy of Loot.

I remember the days when I was always getting a copy and wading through all the ads looking for something to satisfy the GAS urges. More often it was a case of stand in tesco's and whip through the guitar listings, only purchasing if there was something of interest. The dreaded eBay killed it off to all intensive purposes, but it is obviously still out there. Someone must still be buying it.

Can't believe that it was a bit of a highlight of the day - the excitement of maybe finding something interesting!

gusman2x

Damn right. I remember looking every week to see what FENDER STRATOCASTERs were available. Happy times eh.

bertie

very nice dear...................  (WTF is he on about)

ICBM

axisus said:

Saw something from bygone days in the newsagent yesterday……..

......A copy of Loot.

I remember the days when I was always getting a copy and wading through all the ads looking for something to satisfy the GAS urges. More often it was a case of stand in tesco's and whip through the guitar listings, only purchasing if there was something of interest. The dreaded eBay killed it off to all intensive purposes, but it is obviously still out there. Someone must still be buying it.

Can't believe that it was a bit of a highlight of the day - the excitement of maybe finding something interesting!

That reminds me of something too… but I don't think it was called Loot .

axisus

bertie said:

very nice dear...................  (WTF is he on about)

Grunfeld

axisus said:

......A copy of Loot.

The dreaded eBay killed it off to all intensive purposes, but it is obviously still out there. !

Snap!  I was chatting about this with my bass player last night.  We were saying about eBay killing it off, (we thought it was dead too), and came to the idea that maybe Gumtree is perhaps more like Loot than eBay.  But not much to choose between them.

Completely unrelated but isn't it "for all intents and purposes" which, if you say it quickly, sounds a bit like "intensive purposes" but kind of makes more sense?  A more scholarly pedant than me (I?) will be along in a moment!

axisus

Grunfeld said:

Completely unrelated but isn't it "for all intents and purposes" 

Indeed it is - I must have been having a senile moment there as I know that!!! Doh, t'interweb seems to be really dumbing me down

bertie

axisus said:

bertie said:

very nice dear...................  (WTF is he on about)

ah right, never heard of it.. I guess these papers get different names in different regiond

axisus

Not really, Loot was a national brand. That one says London, but they all looked pretty much the same wherever you bought it.

holnrew

Don't remember it in the South West, I remember Trade It though.

bertie

axisus said:

Not really, Loot was a national brand. 

not down here it wasnt

Neil

Loot! You lot were modern.

I used to look through Exchange and Mart in the pre-Loot days. 

:-O

further

Anybody remember Thames Valley Trader

Rocker

When I read the title of this thread, I assumed you might be referring to England beating Germany [thanks to a dodgy goal] in 1966

bertie

Neil said:

 Exchange and Mart 

now that I have heard of,     the only free-ads paper we've had round here in the last 20 years is,  as Russel  intimated - Trade-It.

axisus

A wee fact for those that haven't heard of Loot: 

At one point, Loot's free-ads publication was published in 20 editions per week across the UK with a weekly circulation of approximately 180,000 copies.

RobDavies

When I was a kid, one of the weekly highlights was looking at all the full page picture ads for replica guns in Exchange and Mart.

Wish I could get a fully auto blank firing M16 nowadays. 

:-O

CabbageCat

Neil said:

I used to look through Exchange and Mart in the pre-Loot days. 

:-O

Yup. For me it was all about Exchange and Mart, Portabello and Friday-Ad.