Comments on: On eBay: Jackie’s Bag, Gil Melle https://jazzcollector.com/blue-note/on-ebay-jackies-bag-gil-melle/ For those who love jazz Tue, 12 May 2009 08:46:03 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 By: Rudolf A. Flinterman https://jazzcollector.com/blue-note/on-ebay-jackies-bag-gil-melle/comment-page-1/#comment-3773 Tue, 12 May 2009 08:46:03 +0000 http://jazzcollector.com/?p=1481#comment-3773 nobody reacted to Bethellodge’s grading comment. As a seller I just don’t have the time and feel discouraged to play records I intend to sell. Better sell off something you have never listened to than having regrets afterwards. You don’t miss what you have not known.
In case of deceptions, my experience as a buyer is that sellers accept returns without discussion. So, one looses the postage fees and another illusion.

]]> By: Bethellodge https://jazzcollector.com/blue-note/on-ebay-jackies-bag-gil-melle/comment-page-1/#comment-3472 Thu, 07 May 2009 01:57:06 +0000 http://jazzcollector.com/?p=1481#comment-3472 I have some thoughts on grading… Conservative is appreciated. I’m not a stickler for pristine copies, but I like to know what I’m getting. Descriptions beyond the rating are the most useful – “plays with some light noise” etc.

I bought a Grachan Moncur record on ebay that was rated as VG or VG+ (can’t remember) but when I played it it was pretty worn out. It sounded like it had been played a lot with a bad needle -distortion on the louder horn parts. The problem was that it looked fine to the eye, without any scratches.

it’s a bummer when you get excited about something and then get let down

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