Sold Date: August 21, 2024
Start Date: August 14, 2024
Final Price: $313.58 (USD)
Bid Count: 13
Seller Feedback: 1297
Buyer Feedback: 0

The Beatles WITH THE BEATLES - Mobile Fidelity 1LP vinyl rarity, and the vinyl is NEAR MINT! Collectors of MoFi titles are aware that "With The Beatles" is THE rarest of MoFi's Beatles reissues owing to the fact that the metal stampers were damaged during production, resulting in far fewer copies of this title being released compared to the rest of the catalog.  Now's your chance to get this LONG out of print collectible at a fair market price!
IMPORTANT: I PLAY-GRADED this LP, meaning I listened to the entire record. Other than incidental/irrelevant surface noise between tracks (no ticks, clicks or pops, just the sound of the stylus on vinyl), there are only two small pops during the entire record: On Side 1, Track 3 (All My Loving), there is one small pop at the very end of the track leading to Track 4. No music is playing when the pop occurs. On Side 2 Track 3 (You Really Got A Hold On Me) there is a small pop right at the last second of the track. One could only wish that ALL vinyl was this well pressed!
IMPORTANT: The cover is somewhere between EX and NM condition. There is a flaw to the lower front right corner where the slick has wrinkled; it was in this condition when I bought the record (please see Picture 9). Pictures 6 through 13 show closeups of each corner of the LP from: Front Top Left to Top Right to Bottom Left to Bottom Right, and then in the same order for the rear. The front upper left is slightly bumped (Picture 6), as are the front lower left and right corners (Pictures 8 and 9). 
As each record was cleaned before AND after my audio sampling, you will receive this set in the best "used" condition possible. 
One final note: The LP will ship with the original rice paper sleeve, but I have placed the cleaned record into a brand new MFSL rice paper sleeve to ensure the cleanest environment possible!
I'LL HAVE MANY MORE BEATLES AND SOLO BEATLES RARITIES ON OFFER SOON - PLEASE STAY TUNED!
ABOUT USED RECORDS I SELL ON EBAY: I will be selling many high value used records over the coming months (or years!). I've been lucky enough to be able to use very high-end cartridges on both my mono and stereo turntables. The cartridges are cleaned before each side is played, and I'm currently using the DS-Audio ST-50 cartridge cleaner. 
I clean ALL records, every time, before the platter hits the turntable. I've been doing so for the past 20 years or more, and I am currently fortunate enough to own THE best record cleaning machine in the world: KLAudio's KD-CLN LP200T (Acoustic Sounds uses these machines to clean THEIR used records). Picture 15 shows Record 1 of the 5LP set being cleaned (each LP of the 5 LP set was cleaned, but not photographed). Every used record I sell on Ebay is cleaned before I grade the album, and then cleaned AFTER grading so that the buyer receives the LP in the best possible condition. 
In order to sell used records efficiently, I have two methods of grading used LPs:
Play-Graded - For my rarest records, I will listen to the entire LP and make track by track notes of any possible issues.
Sample-Graded - Other used records will be sampled at the beginning and end of each track, but I cannot guarantee the LP won't exhibit some random noise or pressing flaw that goes undetected. However, I find this approach is reasonably accurate, and considerably more so than visual grading, which I find can be quite deceptive (at least, I've never had any luck at it when buying used LPs). Having said that, the last photo shows one album side (which hopefully conveys that the LP is accurately described).
ABOUT SHIPPING AND HANDLING: Please note there is a $3 fee included in Ebay's estimate of Media Mail shipping costs. I believe the best way to way to ship an LP includes a 13"x14"x3" "pizza" style box, 12"x12" cardboard flats, outer shopping bag, and bubble wrap. The shipping boxes alone cost me over $3 each, and the average total cost of shipping materials is around $4.72, so this is NOT a money-maker for me. However, it does ensure, consistently, that these high value LPs arrive safely. Please check my feedback and I think you'll see that buyers appreciate the care with which these precious artifacts are handled. 

COMBINED SHIPPING: I am more than happy to combine shipping. Ebay buyers pay the actual postage costs. If a single LP is purchased, the buyer pays actual postage and $3 for shipping materials. If two LPs are purchased, the buyer pays actual postage and $3 for shipping materials. If three or more LPs are purchased, the buyer pays actual postage and $0 for shipping materials (I will absorb the cost of materials). As the final amount can only be calculated after auctions have ended, I will issue the appropriate refund on the day the LPs are shipped. 

About Me: I'm a long time Ebay buyer intent on selling a significant portion of my LP collection over the next year or two (or three!). I believe in the auction process, so I'm NOT going to list records at absurdly high prices, and I look forward to getting rare, out of print records into the hands of music lovers, record collectors and audiophiles (I consider myself all of the above). All LPS stored in a smoke-free, climate controlled environment. 

As for the USED LPs that I will begin selling soon (highly collectible albums from The Beatles, Pink Floyd, new/old stock LPs, a wide variety of out of print titles from the best audiophile labels, etc etc,..please stay tuned. I hope you'll look at my feedback and conclude that everything I sell is exactly as advertised and conservatively graded. Thanks! Good Luck!

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