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Have you found reliable online used vinyl vendors?

I have been disappointed with the discrepancy between the listings of used vinyl and the actual quality of the lps I receive when I purchase online. The most recent disappointment is with Thursday's Golden Goodies. They shipped me a visibly and audibly scratched Dave Clark Five record listed as EX8 on their site. Has anyone found any reliable on line vendors for used vinyl? Based on my interaction with Thursday's Golden Goodies I will not purchase anything from them again and warn others.
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jyprez
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eBay is not a vinyl vendor but rather a marketplace for literally hundreds or thousands of vendors each of whom has their own value and quality. To make negative generalized statements about the whole marketplace is absurd.
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I could reveal to you my secret list of outstanding vinyl vendors with unbelievable records ... But then I'd have to kill you ;-)
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Seriously however, the only problem I find with EBay (and this relates to Jazz since that is the only thing I collect) is that everyone seems to be looking for the same 200 jazz records. You'd think that Miles Davis and John Coltrane were the only jazz artists that ever lived and that Blue Note was the only label that knew how to do vinyl.

Fortunately real jazz fans know this is very far from the truth. I am listening right now to a Steeplechase recording of Archie Schepp and Horace Parlance "Trouble in Mind" it is just stunning and I bought it on. eBay for cheap.
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