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Here's a look at a record I got in the mail today from an eBay seller. The vinyl was described as "VG++," and I bought it with "Buy It Now" at a reasonable price. Despite the price, however, this is just crap, wouldn't you say? Certainly not VG++. I'm holding back on naming the seller, since I e-mailed them and offered them the chance to make it right. But I will say it looks to me like it was a record store who should have known better (the seller's feedback numbers were near 10,000).Oh, well. Just looking to bitch, I guess. Thanks for listening.
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If he's got like a 99.8% or better positive rating he's probably ok. But less than that I'd take a serious look at his negatives. I rarely, if ever, have found a seller with lots of feedback at a rating of less than 99% credible. Just about everyone I found with ratings of less than 99% and more than 1000 postives reads like a jerk off or a scoundrel if you check the negatives/retailiations closely.I kind of doubt your seller has better than a 99% positive feedback rating but maybe he made a mistake or was having a real bad day.
Give me rhythm or give me death!
I bought a lot of records from a guy who has some of the worst feedback ever. The deal with him was that he just didn't communicate very well. I always informed him when I was going to buy a record, right after I bought it, and I paid immediately. I sent little messages about how great his records were, and how much I appreciated him. In return, I got freebies and advance picks of his stuff. His records were cheap, really, really cheap. For example, I once bought a dozen Eric Clapton records for a dollar. The guy had managed to acquire all the stock of a company that made pre-recorded shows for radio stations, so all the records were perfectly clean. They all appeared unused, and I suspect they were professionally cleaned before use. The moral is that it is possible to deal with guys who just aren't cut out to be sellers.
I think it was like 80%. Every single complaint was about slow shipping. He was selling the Zeppelin singles set rated mint- for $50. I read this guys feedback and said it's worth the risk. I won the auction for $50. Sent the money off and 3 week later no records. I sent him several emails over the next couple of weeks with no response - finally I dropped a negative on his profile. Next day the disks arrived, not mint -, but stone cold mint - like new never played and no marks whatsoever.This was in the old days so I put another positive on his account to help make up for the negative. Too bad he couldn't respond to my emails.
You're correct though - even some guys with low feedback are square-dealers. They might be slow shippers or like you say just have problems getting along with people. Reading feedback profiles should be enough to let the buyer know - but usually (not always) low fb sellers should be avoided.
But like guys with "as is" auctions low fb sellers can be where buyers can find the best deals.
E-Bay finds in this condition that cleaned up to a visual NM- or better. If that doesn't work then try to return it and let us know the seller's moniker.
Hi newanvil.
Like the other posters I'd recommend a thorough clean-up before making the final judgement on the condition of this piece of vinyl. I've seen many records this dirty while searching through the thrift-store bins. The tricky part is learning to select the ones that look like they might clean up into n/m vinyl in spite of all the crud attached.When they're as dirty as your photo suggests I will run some luke warm tap water over the vinyl to rinse off the big chunks before running through my Disc Doctor cleaning regimen which includes a thorough rinse with distilled water.
Give it a try. You might be pleasantly surprised.
-Steve
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can it be cleaned up?i've found a few "top-sellers" (famous stores in NYC) that don't use an RCM, even for high-priced records....whereas there are other, smaller quality sellers.
... just got a $20 record from ebay (classical) that was rated M- and looks like it...but it plays with soooo much crackling that i know i won't listen to it again.the seller offered a full "satisfaction guarantee" (and had listed the item at $50 but accepted my "best offer"). i wrote to him to see what will happen. seems like an honest error (if it could even be considered an 'error' as it looks clean), so i am hesitant to be a pest.
Henry
I had the same thought. It looks like there's a lot of cleanable rubbish on it. If he's very lucky, there won't be too much damage underneath the dirt.
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