Sold Date: May 20, 2018
Start Date: May 13, 2018
Final Price: $29.00 (USD)
Bid Count: 2
Seller Feedback: 794
Buyer Feedback: 34

This is a very rare clean first pressing of the landmark album by David Bowie, The Rise And Fall Of Ziggy Stardust, released in 1972 by RCA Records on the original orange label. Original copies of this classic has become very difficult to come by as evidenced by the near mint value assessed ($75) in the most recent Goldmine guide.

The LP visually is in excellent to near mint condition exhibiting just few barely visible and inaudible marks, and plays very nicely. The cover is in very good condition. All corners are reasonably sharp with some visible tip wear. The spine has a tape repaired split from top corner of about 3 inches with light rub wear the rest of the spine but is intact.The seams tight with no splits but with some rub wear more evident on top seam for about 4 inches from the spine . The front and back covers show some ring and spot wear. In grading I use excellent instead of very good ++ to describe items that are a notch below near mint.

Please understand that opened play graded copies may have been graded several weeks before listing and may be available for sale for some time, so the LP must be cleaned again before play. LP's are cleaned manually as I no longer have machine, so matter may have settled in the grooves in the interim. Please do not claim LP is not as described if you play the LP without first cleaning the LP.

The LP will be shipped within 24 hours of payment, which is expected within 3 days of auction end, in specially made LP mailer with the LP separated from the cover (for unsealed items) and well packaged to protect the item from damage during shipment. Returns are accepted with buyer paying return shipping cost as long as contact is made within 14 days after receipt of item and LP is returned in the condition received. Sealed items will only be permitted if returned unopened. Please note that I will not grant partial refunds

Shipping cost is $4 per LP which includes cost of material used. To reduce shipping cost, I will combine shipping on multiple items bid and won during the same auction cycle. Please do not pay until I have had the opportunity to manually adjust the shipping cost. I cannot hold items for multiple auction cycles as it will affect my EBAY standing in so far as it concerns shipment time. I only accept bids from continental US based buyers and will only ship to the address recorded for the buyer on PAYPAL, which is the only method I can accept for payment.

Please keep in mind that I am a person looking to sell their collection and not a store or commercial seller. I play grade open items sold and do the best I can in the process to give an honest assessment of the item As is shown by my feedback I think I do a good job of satisfying most buyers. I leave feedback for all buyers and if you are satisfied with the transaction I would greatly appreciate positive feedback from the buyer as well. It does not take very long and is very important to me as seller. If for any reason you cannot leave positive feedback or are not satisfied, please have the courtesy of contacting me before leaving negative or neutral feedback. In almost all cases the issue can be worked out to the buyers satisfaction even if it means returning the item. If the item is not as described I will bear all shipping costs including return shipping. If a buyer behaves in a rude or unreasonable manner, and/ or fails to contact me to address issues they have with an item before negative or neutral feedback is left, I will block that buyer from further auction participation. I also reserve the right to block any buyer that leaves negative or neutral feedback when I have done everything possible to put the buyer in a position as if the transaction had not taken place.

If a buyer requests LP return because it is claimed that an LP is not as described and on return it is found that LP is just as described, I will block that person from further auction participation. I felt I had to take this latest action as I have encountered few too many people who do not do their due diligence in cleaning the record before play, or are just plain dishonest. If you want to return an album that you just do not want and there is nothing wrong with the LP, then unless you want to be blocked from future auctions, you must pay return postage, simple as that.

Please also note that the one unfounded negative feedback I have received, the first in 7 years as a member, was from an unreasonable non US buyer who purchased a rare VG graded record, even though my ad clearly states that I only sell to US based buyers, and who did not contact me until 30 days after the item was delivered to US drop box location. Even after that I offered to take the item back although I was under no obligation to do so. The buyer after trashing the condition of the LP did not request a return, but rather demanded a refund of more than 50% of the paid purchase price. He obviously still wanted the record, but at a huge discount. The feedback materially misrepresented the condition of the item sold. The buyer claimed the LP had a long deep scratch and that the record emitted constant loud noise. When, in fact, there was no long feel able mark just a non feel able scuff. I only heard minimal crackle mostly in dead areas which was stated in the auction description. And I am willing to bet the buyer never bothered to clean the record, a major problem it seems for new collectors.

I am auctioning almost 5000 records of my own collection, including rock. soul, blues and jazz, that are very clean and, included are some very rare items that rarely are available