Dealers marking Repress as 'Sealed'
Unherd
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Shit is corny. Was at the street fair today cause I've found good shit with this dude before and he sets up once a year right on my block. I like the guy and his shit is reasonable and generally in good shape, but calling some repress shit 'sealed' is kinda tough. Seems pretty suspect to me. Me and the other two old timers going through the soul bins were all laughin about the sealed Cymande record for 12 bucks, but if i was younger and a little more green, I might have copped and thought I was getting over. So what say you 'Strut? Straight up dishonest, or just clever marketing?
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sealed reissue for $12, a true crime
Yeah - anything more than $11.99 is a RIP-OFF.
I know many stores that mark them sealed to deter people from opening/listening to them.
I don't see how that's a dealer's fault, though.
like women
It's only cool for buyers to get over, fuck a seller.
Seller with no raers and a bunch of reissues: "He's trying to get over, yo!"
Seller with no raers and no reissues: "That spot is picked, yo!"
Seller with appropriately priced raers: "This schitt is a rip, yo!"
This is a pet peev for me, sealed is a term for old records that should have been opened
years ago.
If they are brand new, they should be sealed, you just got them from the distributer.
Mark'em Reissue.
Who get's "fooled" by these?
Even a sealed record from back in the day looks old.
Exactly!!
according to whom? If it's sealed, it's sealed, old or new.
Isn't this kind of the way we all want capitalism to work, in general. Sellers offer goods and services at a mark up, but (hopefully) dont misrepresent what they're offering. Buyers look for the best deal, and spend money when they think they've found it. My point was simply that advertising something that should be sealed as "SEALED!" is toeing the line of dishonesty. Its not a bad price for a reish, and I have no problem with dealers charging whatever they want if they think someone will pay it. I'm not saying its blatantly shady, thats why I posed the question. I'm just saying, 'sealed' implies that its an OG, and tho i personally know better, to me that's kind of a bad look.
Quit being so damn reasonable.
It makes it near-impossible to CLON.
I really think that's just in your mind bro, at least the dishonesty aspect of it. Most dealers mark records "Sealed" so that people won't open them. At least, that's my 2 cents.
Yeah, I'll co-sign on that. We had "sealed - do not open"
stickers we used to put on any SS LP, OG or re-pop, at my
old store. It was always comedy when some dude would open
one and be like "what?" when I was like "what the fuck?"
Exactly.
It's a little different when you're buying blind on the net though.
That's just how I think of it.
What's sounds like something you'd say:
"Yo found a Skull Snaps, sealed!"
"Yo found a Skull Snaps, sealed reissue!"