[78-L] transfer pricing

[David Lennick]

If you're paying for the service, there's nothing wrong with having 
arrangements in writing "just to be safe, y'know". But as you say, much of this 
is done on a handshake....I'm still waiting for the return of my original tapes 
of the Benny Goodman Stratford Concert, and the guy said he'd have them back in 
a week. That was in October 1985. And he's dead now. Let's not get into how 
many records we've lost when people have inconsiderately gone and died on us...

dl

On 7/12/2011 10:06 PM, warren moorman wrote:
> On a related note, what protocols would you guys suggest are best for giving original discs over for transfer, in terms of protections in event of loss, damage, etc? I realize that it is often done on a handshake, without any formal receipt papers, but I had a bad experience with a fairly well known "name" transfer engineer on a project, who was ultimately dishonest with me and others, resulting in our loss of some rare records, and realized later that I should have risked seeming paranoid and asked for something in writing at the time I gave possesion of the record. Live and learn, but what guidelines might I have used?
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> Warren
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