non-US buyers who ask you to declare under penalty of perjury on a US Customs form that a $1500 cartridge is actually a "used record player needle" given as a "gift" with a value of "$45."
Vinyl sellers knowingly or otherwise representing products as "first issues" or "original releases" when they are not.
A good example is Surrealistic Pillow by Jefferson Airplane currently offered for sale ($45 WOW) on Audiogon. Seller is representing as original stereo issue when in fact the first 4 Jefferson Airplance albums were issued on the black label (in mono and stereo). Not until "Bless It's Pointed Little Head" in 1969 was the orange label employed.
I see dozens of misrepresentations every day scanning the LP For Sale section and the sellers are asking outrageous prices.
Don't take it for granted any of these sellers, including the guys with the huge "personal collections", know what they are talking about.
People with nice gear that I'd love to own, but when you look at their system it's in the living room with no room treatments, one speaker behind the couch and the other one halfway in the fireplace with a huge TV in the middle. Then they post about some minor change they made, like they changed their cable lifters from ceramic to hi-temp ceramic and the result was "jaw dropping - You gotta try this!"
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