Sold Date: May 13, 2021
Start Date: May 3, 2021
Final Price: £87.00 (GBP)
Bid Count: 8
Seller Feedback: 550
Buyer Feedback: 90

Unplayed 1st edition 2001 Ocean Colour Scene Mechanical Wonder. Mint vinyl. Near Mint gatefold sleeve and mint photo/lyric inner sleeve. Condition is "New" never played owned by me from new. 
I realise that these descriptions may sound like exaggeration but the first few records I've sold are starting to get feedback so you check for yourself - I believe in pointing out all defects I can detect. I'm not a record dealer - I realise in hindsight that I went from being an audiophile record listener to a record buyer in the late 80s and most of my collection from then got very little if any plays. These are the first albums I'm selling off before downsizing - when they've gone, they've gone. It's one of four Ocean Colour Scene albums I'm listing (I'm holding on to Mosley Shoals for the time being - it's one of my demo records after all!): B-Sides Seassides and Freerides (1997); Marchin' Already (1997); One From the Modern (1999); and Mechanical Wonder (2001) - they are all incredible unplayed copies. My shame (in buying and not playing) is your gain, so to speak.
I've taken photos of all sides of the sleeves and vinyl in high resolution - the reflections are of my camera and conservatory roof but hopefully you can see clearly the mint or near mint  condition of the media. 
Using the Goldmine standard I've rated the vinyl as:
Vinyl Side A: Mint Side B: Mint
The album sleeve is near mint in that there is a tiny crease above the 'e' of wonder on the front cover and a light scuff above - pernickety I know. The photo/lyric inner-sleeve is mint  I doubt you could not buy a better copy. From a pet and smoke-free home.
Special packaging and delivery The record will be packaged in a Defendapack MusicMax TWISTS mailer and I will leave the vinyl in the inner sleeve because it is plain. I will also use additional internal stiffeners in the mailing box and the sleeve and record will also be protected by a PVC sleeve. This has worked really well so far according to my buyers.
As a valuable item this will be dispatched with Royal Mail 1st Class special delivery before 1pm for the base Royal Mail price of £8.85. I make nothing on shipping and the packaging is done at my own cost.  You can also pick up for free from East Grinstead, West Sussex and I will also post worldwide using eBay's Global Shipping Programme. As Royal Mail will only pick up 5 packages a day from my home, I'm going to list up to 5 records at a time with the same auction end date so that you should (Royal Mail being compliant) be in receipt of the record two mornings later (if you are in the UK). That means auctions from Sunday to Thursday (as the Thursday-ending ones should be delivered Saturday morning) and potentially 25 records a week - though I doubt I can maintain that pace! For multiple purchases, I will combine postage where possible (there is a limit with Royal Mail weights but I'll do my best to save you money - for comparison; below a kilo Special Delivery Next Day before 1pm costs £8.85 and this will normally do about 3 albums. Between 1 and 2 Kilos it costs £11.05, which is up to about 6 albums). Please bear in mind that the Global Shipping Programme does not allow combining postage for some unfathomable reason. If you have any questions please let me know and I'll try to answer them.
A  little more about me: I'm also listing original pressings from the Cure, the Cranberries, Robbie Williams, the Prodigy, Morrissey, Stereophonics; Joe Strummer, Suede etc etc, so please check my other listings if you are interested in mint or near mint original vinyl from this era. These all comes from my personal record collection of over 1500 vinyl albums put together over 50 years. As I need to downsize I am starting to advertise around a 100 rarities starting with 90's vinyl, which I was still buying (but rarely playing!) while the world had moved to CDs. I have been an audiophile for as long as I could afford it and moved up from a Thorens TD150 record deck, via Linn Sondek and Pink Triangle to my current SME10, which I've been running with an SMEV arm and Koetsu Rosewood cartridge for over 20 years. If that means nothing to you, suffice to say I take extreme care of my vinyl to the extent that I invested in a Loricraft PRCII professional record cleaner nearly 20 years ago and all of my vinyl immediately goes into protective plastic sleeves. Almost all of my rock/pop collectio