Hi,
I´ve never in my life bought records from Tim Brown, but I even was on his auction page and was surprised about his sound clips and the grading of the records. He is nothing writing about if he´s taking the sound samples from the actual record, only a couple of funny attacks against other dealers, but that´s it. What´s your experience with him, does he take the sound clips from other copies or does he pushing some sand in the grooves of the record before he takes a sound sample of it, but if you´ve won an auction will you get cleaned superb as graded record???? I mean, there are a lot of records graded as Mint minus, but some of them sounding worse than EX, not to speak about his as VG++ graded records, but I also couln´d find a description about how his grading is to understand. A lot of interesting records there, but to be honest, in that case I can understand why the most of them does not yet have a bid on it.
And no! -this is no attack against Tim Brown (biggest respect to him - one of the ikons of the Northern Soul scene), only a question to other collectors how to deal with him.
Thanks in advance for sharing your experience with me and others, Andreas