moonlightvinyl

For those wondering I received the partial refund that I was seeking from the seller. And to address those of you berating me for spending $400 on a record, I didn't spend anywhere near $400 on this originally, that would just be absurd

Yea that's how I feel when I sell a record for $100+ if I package it up and give it a shake and still hear a rattle, I open that beast up and add another layer of bubble wrap or cardboard until it's solid

I thought I read somewhere that 1% of the proceeds from this are going to charity, which is still $20k+ but still it's deceiving from the listing. I'd love to find out how much that guy bought it for considering all the other high ticket collectables he's got for sale too

Wouldn't call this nitpicking, if you would have read past the first sentence or looked at the pics provided that would have been obvious. Clearly a lot of people on ebay will call something mint just to fluff up their listings, but that is beyond the issue in this case

This is a first press too, I'll be watching to see what it ends at

The whole package is important, I look at big record purchases like these as investments, I store them well and play them carefully. And I'm well aware of the whole deja bowl thing, honestly didn't understand why people made it out to be such a big deal (it's insane how long that thread is) People can do with their own records what they please I really couldn't care less. But I definitely wouldn't call this "bitching" in fact beyond the first post I haven't really complained, only elaborated on what my plans are for refund etc

Lol well at least the sleeve still looks good

I feel your pain!

They definitely won't get the same $ back, these have been dropping in price steadily, it's no longer $400+ for every copy that reaches ebay

I'm not holding him hostage, I'm simply outlining to all of you the situation. It's great that you just said they'd be out $100+ because that's approximately the partial refund I'm seeking. There are two things that can happen at this point. The seller refunds the partial amount I'm requesting and I still get a record that i've been seeking out for a long time and we both lick our wounds and call it a day. Option 2 is I send it back, get a full refund, seller may or may not get fv fees refunded and sells damaged record on ebay. They end up getting a % of what it originally sold for (maybe even less than I'm predicting, who knows) then they still have to pay another round of fv fees, buy packing material etc. And at the end of the day they will still be out the same amount of $ as they would have lost by avoiding all the hassle of sending it back for a full refund. If the seller has a shred of common sense they will go with partial refund, as the end result will be the same for them either way. IMO they deserve to take this loss just to learn the lesson and never let it happen again

Happy to hear you've had better luck than myself. When I ordered the Of Monsters and Men RSD from Iceland this year, they shipped it out in a thin cardboard 7" mailer, probably the thickness of 2 pieces of construction paper glued together. By some miracle that arrived in perfect condition

I'm throughly jealous of the guy on VC who picked up that copy for around $50 on the bay a few months ago

Yes that's my point, it's more advantageous for them to just give me a partial refund at this point because if they refund my full purchase amount they will still be out those final value fees from ebay, thus double dipping their loss and giving me the edge to just say they should send a partial refund. The final values fees are already owed by the seller to ebay, they are as soon as the auction is over (even if no one pays) In order for the seller to get their final value fees back from ebay I would have to agree to cancel the transaction after the refund has been sent. But that is entirely up to me the buyer. I don't have to accept the request to cancel the transaction, so I will not be if they choose the full refund route.

Yes exactly!

I'm saying the seller will lose money in fees anyway, ebay doesn't refund final value fees when a damaged item is returned