RESEALS
Jonny_Paycheck
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I just opened a sealed record that had fingerprints all over it! WTF
Jonny_Paycheck
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The work of a sloppy pressing plant worker?
I've opened sealed records with trashed or entirely different records inside before.
I bought a sealed copy of the rock group "Murphy's Law" a long time ago. I open it, the record had no inner sleeve, was scratched, and was warped to the point of being unplayable.
Don't say record people don't have a sense of irony or humor.
mos def
JERRY DODDS[/b]
This dude!
What's next....glueing cracked or broken records back together & selling them.
This is funny shit......just last week a big time collector contacted me and asked if I could get him a specific solvent that had been banned for use some years back. He explained that a friend of his could repair broken records using this solvent(Trichloroethane 1,1,1)
In Texas the King of Reseals was one Les Harris!!
but interestingly, ive bought several like that just because the price was right and crossed my fingers and opened them - it was clear the records were unplayed but someone (maybe way back when) resealed them for a discount/cut out chain or something.
Shit, this was '92.
Resealing is just pure bullshit. No way to possibly justify doing it.
with a special nefarious evil re-sealing machine i reckon?
from footage I've seen, vinyl is often just stacked sleeveless after it's first pressed, then somebody has to put the record in an inner sleeve & stuff it inside a jacket, then factory seal it - voila! 'sealed or better'
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a shoe print? or a footprint with toes & everything?
haha! yeah, it was a shoe. It basically looked like it had fallen on the ground, been stepped on, and then "oh there it is" was stuffed in a sleeve. Had to have happened in the pressing plant.
The king of this shit!
Probably record store employees with access to a shrink machine. Or shrink material and a hair dryer. It's not that difficult to figure out.
Re: seals over cut outs/hole punches, I wondered about that too. Seams like a waste of money to shrink wrap a promo in the first place since it's not going on a shelf. Sealed promos are probably more likely to be extra copies that made it to a budget bin somewhere, and while still unplayed, the store seals them to protect from damage while on the shelf. That makes sense.
Malicious resealing of an obviously played and worn record is just wrong though. Especially if its being marketed as "still sealed" and unopened.