ONEADAYRECORDS – Simply Delivering Quality Music to the World in Quality, Safe Packing.

Postage: UK £4.95. Europe (including Russia) £12.95 (£1 per extra record). Rest of World £19.95 (£2 per extra record). All my records are sent in boxes and the price of them has increased over time and these are my first price increases for nearly 10 years. Royal Mail prices have also gone up again. I will never compromise on quality, safe packaging – I NEVER use mailing envelopes that offer virtually no protection at all, and records WILL arrive damaged in them at some time as most record buyers will already know. Here, you get what you pay for – SAFE PACKING in BOXES using 7mm DOUBLE-WALL STIFFENERS including full side protection and bubble wrap, the records removed from the covers of course. All this very safe packing means I lose money on every box I post, but safe delivery is, and will always be paramount. You WILL see the difference when my packet arrives. Also, I will pay for insurance on any record that sells for over £100 at NO extra cost – that is UK and abroad. Also I aim to post the very same day after payment is received if possible. PLEASE NOTE: I will NOT send any item, no matter what its value without a Royal Mail or courier tracking number. ALL my items must be signed and trackable to comply with Ebay delivery rules. Please do NOT ask me to make any exceptions to this rule as no country offers 100% reliable service without it.

Posting to Russia: Yes, I do post to Russia. But delivery can take longer from the UK. So please be patient. I will submit a tracking number to the winning bidder, and when the packet arrives there it can be followed online using the Russian post website.

ALSO: I now apply the Ebay ‘2-day’ rule for non-payment to keep things moving – cash-flow is important for any small business.

ANY ITEM or ITEMS TO BE PAID WITHIN A MAXIMUM OF 6 DAYS or they will be cancelled – NO EXCEPTIONS.

FINALLY: Late payers, non-payers and ‘0’ bidders will now be blocked or cancelled at my discretion, as will any bidder who cancels a bid. Please only bid on my items if you want them.

Artist or Band: THE EAGLES

Album Title: Hotel California

Producer(s): Bill Szymczyk

TRACK LIST:

Side 1: Hotel California; New Kid in Town; Life in the Fast Lane; Wasted Time.

Side 2: Wasted Time (Reprise); Victim of Love; Pretty Maids All in a Row; Try and Love Again; The Last Resort.

Label/Format: Asylum, customised version with matt, quite smooth surfaces.

Label Conditions: Both very clean, fresh and attractive with only light, fine and faint spindle marks and no wear around the hole area.

Catalogue Number: K 53051

Mode / Speed: Stereo / 33.3 rpm.

Warps or Lateral Movement: Assume all records I offer have no significant warping or lateral movement to cause sound or tracking issues. All should play fine even on budget turntables.

Weight of Record: 114 grams.

Country of Manufacture: England

Rarity: A major seller, less easy with a lovely clean cover and unmounted near mint poster.

Original Year of Release: 1976

Matrix Nos: K 53051 A7 / K 53051 B1

Run-Out Groove Etchings: ARUN (on side one)

Musicians: Don Felder – guitars, backing vocals, pedal steel; Glenn Frey – guitars, backing vocals, keyboards, lead vocals; Don Henley – drums, percussion, lead vocals, backing vocals, synthesiser; Randy Meisner – bass, backing vocals, lead vocals, guitarrón; Joe Walsh – guitars, keyboards, backing vocals, lead vocals.

Brief Info: The fifth Eagles album that was a popular global success. A massive seller with around 32 million copies sold – with 26 million in America alone. Most will know this album well enough and need little further introductions. This a fine copy with an unusually fine cover, fully intact and neat inner sleeve and superb practically mint poster.

Cover Grade and Format: EXCELLENT(+): arguably better. An unlaminated gatefold format with matt, smooth surfaces. Printed and made in England by Gothic Print, includes the graphic/text thin card inner sleeve and large double-folded poster.

Cover Front: A faint light mark new the bottom with no effect on the ink, so it shows little. That apart, this front looks virtually as made and superb with barely any other wear or blemishes.

Cover Back: Beautiful and near mint.

Cover Inner Gatefold: Superb, virtually as-made.

Top & Bottom Edges: All four straight, flat and flush with any traces of rubbing small, few and light.

Right Edge(s), and Type: Mostly sharp with any thickening little, small and very light. Record enters on the back edge.

Spine and Text: Little short of pristine, very solid, thick and straight with no compression and folded square, so the edges meet up very closely together and parallel. The text and surface virtually unworn.

Corners: Any tip rubs tiny and light with better than excellent shape retained with no knocks.

Cover Summary: A very strong all-round example of this quite wear-prone matt cover, one that will prove very difficult to find much better. This beautiful item should please many, and maybe most collectors.

The Inner Sleeve: EXCELLENT: and arguably better still. An unlined, thin card graphic/text inner. Minimal creasing, clean and still fresh with all edges naturally intact. The top recessed opening still neat with any thickening traces small and few.

The Poster: PRACTICALLY MINT: superb and looking as-made with barely anything to fault at all. This unmounted (e.g. no pin-holes or tape residues), no creasing with crisp neat edges. Clean and fresh with the two manufactured folds unweakened and strong. This guaranteed original, when held to light, a complex watermark is seen in the thick paper, this was printed one side only, hence this feature can be easily seen under light.

Vinyl Condition/Visual Grading: NEAR EXCELLENT: a fine visual copy that is clean with equally fine shine and solidly pressed. A copy with minimal modest plays on all the evidence with any usage surface marks very light and quite faint as seen critically under bright light. No penetrating stylus scratches, viewed in average room light, little even registers. Some mild dulling in the pressing again seen more critically under light. Visually a fine record that should please many collectors.

Album Played For Grading: Yes. [I play ALL records I offer before submitting to Ebay, also the record is played in its entirety unless clearly stated otherwise. I do NOT play snippets or joining grooves to check for sound quality and quietness – I play from the beginning to end via clinically revealing equipment, all listed further down.]

Sound Quality and Audio Grading: This classic album plays mostly above it’s visual grading with little to fault. Offering strong, distortion-free sound, all frequencies are sharp and clear – sound quality is very high with a wide dynamic range and very detailed sound. Very popular albums were mass-produced which often means pressing issues and sometimes major sound problems. Any surface sounds are light and infrequent and generally quite a clean pressing with no tracking issues*. Some quiet songs and few will ever play silent I feel, and this does give a polite few reminders of what is being played – a near 45-year-old vinyl record – here-and-there. I am sure this record has been played sparingly and has been generally well stored within a non-smoking environment. Little of major note spoilt my pleasure when play-grading this popular album. It could prove difficult to find significantly better and can be recommended as long as silence is not mandatory. I have never found this album easy to find that offers that being honest.

* As played-graded on a high-end Linn LP12 Sondek turntable with Ittok Mk II arm and Ortofon Quintet Black moving coil cartridge tracking at 2 grams. Records are a ‘contact’ format, and few will avoid the odd minor sound blemish.

I am one of the most established sellers on Ebay, trading since 2001 and offering the finest records I can find. I pride myself on offering a variety of genres to keep my site as interesting as possible. I will rarely offer any record that falls below a true Excellent grading, unless its of a certain rarity which will justify offering a lesser grade. I try, to the best of my ability to describe as accurately and as honesty all elements of the items I offer for sale. You may notice I only submit records quite sparingly on Ebay as I Play-Grade every record I offer in their entirety – also on higher-end equipment – not just bits to guess a grade – visuals alone do not always tell a true story. I will try to mention any defects or flaws no matter how small that I notice to be fair as possible to any interested collector – I am very fussy and my buyers have the right to be too. Every record I offer, whether it be a common or rare item deserves the same respect as far as I am concerned and will be treated the same – just because an item is rare does not always mean it’s good. I get just as much pleasure offering a relatively common record in near mint condition as the real rare items. All the pictures I use for your guidance are the item being offered with no digital enhancements. Room light factors can make things vary sometimes, that is hard to control, especially in winter. I hope the item below is to your liking – any questions can be emailed and I will do my best to answer you. I am enthusiastic, and have a fair degree of knowledge about many genres and I promise quality items. Please assume all records I offer have NO jumps, sticks, major warps or writing on covers or labels unless clearly stated to the contrary. Thanks for your interest and Good luck – MIKE.

Equipment Used for Play-Grading: I now play-grade ALL the records I offer (unless clearly stated to the contrary) on the following equipment:

Deck: Linn LP12/Hercules/Cirkus with Ittok Mk II arm and Ortofon Quintet Black moving coil cartridge (tracks at 2 grams). Amps: Naim Supernait 2 with Project USB phono stage and Tellerium Black interconnects. Speakers: B&W 805 Nautilus (bi-wired with Tellurium Black terminated cable) with REL subwoofer. All records I offer on Ebay are cleaned on a professional Nessie vacuum machine before play-grading for the cleanest and best possible sound and will include a brand new lined inner and protective cover too. Pictures taken with a Nikon D7500 DSLR Camera.

PACKING – THIS IS WHAT YOU GET.

What You Get: To confirm to the strict Ebay rules on shipping, I must now send ALL my packets ‘Signed-For’ with NO exceptions. Both buyers and sellers want their packets to have a safer journey and this is not a bad thing.

PLEASE NOTE: I now exercise my right to open a dispute after the Ebay rule of TWO days if no payment is received. I will then cancel the dispute to end the bid, again after the mandatory FOUR days and then offer the item to the runner-up or relist. The non-payer will also be blocked from my Ebay site as will any suspicious bids or bid bid retractions. Small businesses need prompt payment to trade and these strict rules WILL be applied.

Payment Conditions:

I prefer PayPal from­ winning bidders. I only accept PayPal from overseas bidders or direct payment into my bank account.

Potential Bidders: I will cancel any bids I feel are time-wasters. A maximum 2 days for communication and 7 days for payment to arrive – if not I will relist the item or offer to the runner-up.

My Guarantee: If any winning bidder is not satisfied with their purchase I will offer a complete refund if the item is returned in the same condition is was sent e.g. as per the listing pictures.

SOME GENERAL GUIDES TO WEAR AND CONDITIONS TO HELP YOU DECIDE

My Use of Description Terminology: Surface Marks = Superficial, usually light marks, hairlines or light scuffs that rarely sound. Scratch = a needle mark that goes below the record’s surface, some will sound, some will not, my play-grade will inform. Original = a record that has been pressed with the first label design which does NOT necessarily mean a very first pressed record. First Pressing = A record that I believe or know to be a genuine very first pressed record. I do not claim to always know for sure, and that’s why I state the stamper and matrix numbers if at all possible, for those who claim to know what they all mean, the information is there for the collector to decide. I prefer to use terms like ‘Early Copy’ rather than ‘First Pressing’ if I am not totally sure. Surface Sound = Mild, light sound, usually light crackle or similar. Distortion = Break up of the actual sound caused by groove wear or damage from a chipped stylus – the most undesirable form of unwanted sound, vintage mono records were the most prone to this happening but not exclusively so. The symptoms of distortion are high frequency clipping, moderate constant crackle or an echo type sound quality. Violin, piano and vocals are most prone to groove-wear distortion. Feathering = Fraying or softening of the entry edge of a cover. Covers with feathered entrance edges are more likely to have had the actual record inserted and removed more than a non-feathered, sharp-edged cover which are always far more attractive. Set Off, a printer’s term for dark ink leaving mild residue on pale or white ink when rested upon. e.g. when a gatefold cover has black ink closed against white, this can leave some black residue on the pale area – this is mostly unavoidable or course.