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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
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lalitk
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elliott, 

I will buy from you, let me know when listing is up :-) 
lewm
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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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ihcho
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I sell records that I don’t care much. I usually put them on Amazon. Amazon charges huge fee. If you sell one at $10, Amazon may take about $4. If I have time, I listen to them before shipping, just to make it sure. I think Agon charges much less than Amazon.
Best way of selling may be selling them at bulk, like 100s with some categorization, like jazz, classical, opera, pop, 50’s, 60’s, ... Putting individual records for sale takes lots of time, especially if you are selling hundreds or thousands of them. One time, I bought 400 classical LPs from ebay, most of them at mint or new at $1000.
If I were you, I would solicit through Agon or other vinyl forums for the bulk sale to avoid listing fees. Also, I would not bother cleaning them before sale. Be conservative on ratings. Most sellers’ ratings are so much generous than buyers, so I would suggest lowering the grade one or two levels for bulk sale.
Of course, if you really want to get rid of them fast, put them on Ebay auction at bulk with very low starting price, and advertise them to Agon and vinyl forum for more exposure, and not worry too much about getting top $$$.
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chakster
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Record grading is international standard, you can read here about grading:

https://support.discogs.com/hc/en-us/articles/360001566193-How-To-Grade-Items

Nobody cares about static, find your record/release on discogs, make sure about pressing, click sell and add grading (you’d better undergrade than overgrade). It’s easy to sell on discogs, ebay is more complicated. It’s better to buy on discogs as you can see exact pressing, deadmarks and all details about each version.
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