[78-L] Dop a-bary dealers &c&c ]FWD]

[Mike Harkin]

This is the guy with the CLEAN!! record  from a few daze ago, right?  If that's his idea of E+, I shudder to think what a Fair or Poor would be like!  And his packing sounds a good deal on a level with his grading.

Buster, You're probably lucky you only had to vacuum up the peanut dust....

Mike in Plovdiv


--- On Fri, 2/20/09, buster <busterdog at mac.com> wrote:

> From: buster <busterdog at mac.com>
> Subject: Re: [78-L] Dop a-bary dealers usually follow your packing instructions?
> To: "78-L Mail List" <78-l at klickitat.78online.com>
> Cc: "Maillist 78-L" <78-l at klickitat.78online.com>
> Date: Friday, February 20, 2009, 11:36 PM
> I just got my first-ever package of records from some guy
> named Paul  
> Solarski in Tennessee. A decent pile of tunes for a decent
> price on  
> eBay, but when I politely asked him for a description of
> how he packs  
> and ships, he got all huffy and said he's been shipping
> records for 30  
> years.
> 
> Well guess what?  He needs another few years to get it
> right. He got  
> the sandwich part right, but then he dumped it into a box
> of partially  
> pulverized styrofoam peanuts, with no bag to isolate it.
> 
> So I got to spend another half hour vacuuming. Nice job,
> Pauly.
> 
> Sent from my iPhone
> 
> -- Buster
> Busterdog at mac.com
> 
> On Feb 20, 2009, at 9:17 PM, Hawthorn's Antique Audio
> <hawthorn at thoseoldrecords.com 
>  > wrote:
> 
> > Hi everyone,
> >
> > In defense of eBay dealers who are also legitimate
> record dealers, I  
> > must say that we pack and ship to our ebay customers
> in the same  
> > manner we pack and ship to our mail auction folks.  In
> fact, maybe  
> > we lavish a little more care on eBay packing, as we
> want to create a  
> > good impression, and possibly woo this person onto our
> mailing list  
> > for our regular sales.  Now the secret is out - we
> realize that eBay  
> > buyers may eventually become our regular auction
> customers if we  
> > treat them right.
> >
> > Tom Hawthorn
> > Hawthorn's Antique Audio
> > www.thoseoldrecords.com
> > hawthorn at thoseoldrecords.com
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