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Sell LP's: No visible scuffs. Let buyer remove static if needed?

I will be selling more LPs on eBay. My objective is to make space, and I enjoy finding someone who wants them.

I have been cleaning, listening, photos, listing, selling, shipping. Time consuming, cost of cleaning fluids, wear on stylus.

A few  bring decent $, many/most go for starting price $4.50. Money is nice, but not much after all the work, involved costs and fees. 
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I am thinking of selling based only on my visual inspection, letting buyer deal with any static, and keep my unconditional refund if buyer discovers a problem, i.e. a skip I didn't see. 

I view them, look Very Darn Good (no scuffs) or Darn Good (very minor scuffs): 1 photo, 1 link from wiki, a few specific words, done.

No hesitation on refunds whatsoever.
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So, what do you think, will people buy, trusting they only need to deal with static? People already trust my unconditional refund, nobody has asked for a refund based on anything but USPO destruction. What's different is they have to deal with static.
elliottbnewcombjr
elliottbnewcombjr OP
5,471 posts
 
lewm,

this is about NOT REMOVING STATIC, letting buyer deal with static.

So far, I have shipped 30 that I did clean, removed static, sold as static free (except some occasionally between tracks), and I always get positive feedback, IOW it is possible.

Not to mention, I have bought and received new and used static free lps.

You fear eBay, I have done very well selling and buying on eBay.
lewm
13,109 posts
 
I don’t doubt for a minute that you make an earnest effort to remove static, but my point is that static happens over and over again. The person to whom you sold an LP may introduce a static charge simply by the method with which he handles the LP when he receives it static is everywhere or I should say the potential for a static charge developing on a vinyl surface is everywhere and you cannot permanently guard against it. The factThat you have had no negative feedback, does not mean to me that every LP you have sold remains static free for the rest of its lifetime. Many people are completely unaware that their LPs have a static charge on the surface.
Anyway, go for it. I did not mean to rain on your parade. Just trying to inject a note of reality.
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lalitk
5,550 posts
 
elliott, 

I will buy from you, let me know when listing is up :-) 
lewm
13,109 posts
 
Elliot, I see now that I completely mis read your original post. Mea culpa. 1000 apologies to you.
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whart
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I actually prefer buying records that haven’t been cleaned by the seller given big questions about how effectively they clean (I have a very good regime) and whether the "cleaning" is really further contaminating the record. I don’t know why you have static issues, but I can deal with that. The main concern I have as a heavy buyer of some serious used records (private label or rare jazz, proto-metal, early prog, etc) is groove chew-- that is, noise in the groove caused by damage from kludgey turntable set ups that visual inspection will not reveal.
One other thing that is common- warps. I once asked a seller if the record he was offering was warped. He responded by saying "you’d have to be an idiot to offer a warped record." I bought from him and guess what? Thankfully, I have one of those fancy (Orb/Furutech DF 2) disc flatteners.
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