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stop communicating with the seller and open up a paypal claim. all messaging should go through that. the seller doesn't want to deal with you and isn't going to answer your messages until forced to.

yeah, I thought that I was obviously saying "it is", where "it" referred to the record. I didn't even think that's what Nev was criticizing but I had no idea what he was trying to say was grammatically incorrect. Either way, it doesn't matter and is off topic, but I'm still wondering what he thought was wrong. p.s. Nev, way to not be a steward of your mother tongue. FOR SHAME.

I never even saw "NM-" until a few years ago and still maintain it's a BS grade. the "N" stands for near, if it's not near it's VG++. Also, that seller doesn't have particular high grading DSRs and has a grading neg. Plus the customs thing shows they are not used to selling soul 45s overseas.

just pointing out that that would be a mailer and not a sleeve. a cool item though.

if the seller goes along with the complaint and refunds your money in full, you have to send the item back with tracking and get a full refund for price paid (but not return shipping). paypal will generally find in your favor. i just did a search for this in completed auctions and found this record in two listings. neither looked like a "respected seller" of records at least, and if they changed their entire customs policy based on your complaint they don't seem like an experienced record seller.

Like 1/3 of these (the "drama" ones that sound like the godfather soundtrack) don't sound like they could be soul records at all

i fixed the first post but see it's been fixed by the OP. sorry!

um, not sure what's wrong. convince me.

"it" refers to the record. what did you think was grammatically incorrect?

it's also a solo female, so probably more a band than a group

there is no issue cleaning styrene with isopropyl alcohol (shellac does have an issue). it is more sensitive to some organic chemicals than vinyl though but generally those also hurt vinyl.

several shady sellers who were okay before have started polishing records. so many sellers on ebay are shady that if i get an overgraded record and don't want to send it back i won't even message them a lot of the time because i don't want to fish for a partial refund and i don't want to be blocked because i know the next day they will have my top want for auction if they do block me. i just make a note to myself about their crappy grading and bid accordingly.

https://www.divshare.com/download/22088601-ace Impressions wish you a merry Christmas - Curtom Honey and the Bees - Jing Jing a Ling - Chess C-Quents - All I want for Christmas is you - Captown Excaliburs - Peace on earth (goodwill to mankind) - Trent Town Horace Williams - I'm going Christmas Shopping - Magic City Nibbs - Spending Christmas day with you - Arc-lark Supremes - Children's Christmas Song - Motown Emotions - Black Christmas - Volt Blenders - You trimmed my Christmas Tree - Witch Orchids - Christmas is the time to be with your baby - Columbia Stridells - I remember Christmas - Yvette Poets - Merry Christmas Baby - Red Bird Ebonys - Christmas Just Ain't Christmas - Philadelphia International Ameriquette - Tell me tell me (on this Christmas Day) - Brou Larch Inds Gems - Love For Christmas - Chess Impressions - I'm coming home for Christmas Kissi Jacobs - Let it be him - Black Jack Jan Bradley - It's Christmas Time - Hootenanny Emotions - What do the lonely do? - Volt Manhattans - It's that time again - Carnival C-Quents - Merry Christmas Baby - Captown Excaliburs - Christmas Dreaming - Trent Town Playboys - The night before Christmas - Legato Impressions wish you a happy new year - Curtom Manhattans - All alone on new years eve - Carnival Emulations - My Christmas Tree - Emulate

I know several US record stores that have a machine that will do it for a fee. Don't know if you want to send stuff overseas, I'm sure some British or Euro stores have one. If you do want to send it to the US, I think Brad Hales (the guy selling the margaret little on ebay...) is northern soul friendly. Note that not all warps can be fixed successfully or flattened such that it becomes playable. Storage warps are generally fixable though.

the topic seems to have fizzled out and degenerated into petty back and forths. If anyone has anything meaningful to add at this point, hit "report" and a moderator can reopen it. thanks.

This is the third time I'm saying to stop bickering. Is it accomplishing anything? You dudes are saying the same stuff back and forth, just taking shots at each other. Do it via PM if you want, I think you can even have multiple people on the conversation so you can have your own private thread. I'm closing the topic if nobody has anything meaningful to add soon.

I understand the position of sellers not giving partial refunds -- prevents shady people from fishing for discounts. However, you did provide actual evidence of the record. Also, the "return to sender" is totally BS, not even because of the time it takes but because it leaves you with no recourse if he denies receiving it. You need to send anything back with a tracking number if you want a guaranteed result from paypal. If the record is very rare or very expensive I would send it to get flattened from someone who has a real flattening machine -- that type of warp should definitely flatten easily, and it would be a relatively small percentage of the total. If it were easily replaceable at that cost I would just send it back if the seller didn't want to partial refund by policy. Finally, I'm moving this topic to "look in your box" which is record and record acquisition (e.g. ebay) specific. Thanks for posting.

I'm just trying to explain that the question doesn't make sense, as it's done on a case-by-case basis and master tapes are rarely available, or only available depending on what material is being licensed. You can't make a generalization for a whole label, unless the label never uses masters. In my experience every label that has access to masters will use them.

I think it's directly on topic. I'm talking directly about this specific item for sale and who would buy it and for what reasons, and what that says about the values of the scene. however, I also don't care enough to post more about it.

not really -- maybe there's something wrong mentally in both cases. But someone going into debt and hiding spending from their spouse versus a person spending an amount of money that is insignificant to them -- who's worse off materially?

also, I think a not-rich person desperately spending to try to get a status symbol of a scene that has fetishized expensive records is clearly significantly worse than the "obscenity" of a rich person who can afford a useless record buying it. who is worse off in the long run?

I'm talking about this specific record. I think a rich person is more likely to recognize it as garbage (unless they are buying for some other reason, for example a filler in a detroit collection). A person without the money is more likely to view it as their only opportunity to get the status symbol of owning a $5000 record.

Also, even if masters are available, the question is not as clear cut. Several versions may have been mixed originally, a 1/4" mixed down master of an unreleased version might be the only one available (this actually happened with the numero release of Wee "try me", even though I think they didn't realize until afterwards). If the multitrack masters are available you have to do a new mixdown, and a lot of effects may have been added originally at mixdown time. A more authentic reissue would be to take the 45 and do a good remastering job from the vinyl. Numero uses peerless mastering to master off their vinyl and they spend a ridiculous amount of time doing it (they basically use cedar in manual mode where they listen click by click).

I don't understand the accusatory tone of asking what labels do what and asking for a straight answer. unless it's a bootleg company which generally never have access to master tapes, most reissue companies I know use master tapes when they are available. But, depending on the type of reissue, they may usually not be available. For example, if ace/kent is digging into a label catalog they might have a lot of tapes to transfer and select from. But if you're licensing something from a tiny label almost nobody has masters. I would say maybe 10% max of the producers I've met (of small label productions) have masters. Most of them think that they're still in storage at a studio they recorded somewhere (which in general is not true).

I want to know what is worse -- someone throwing money at a random trashed record because they can afford it or someone without any money scraping together what they can and going into debt so they can buy an unplayable record and claim ownership of it because the scene has fetishized expensive records so much? Which of the two types of people do you think is more likely to win the record?