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Sell LP's: No visible scuffs. Let buyer remove static if needed?

I will be selling more LPs on eBay. My objective is to make space, and I enjoy finding someone who wants them.

I have been cleaning, listening, photos, listing, selling, shipping. Time consuming, cost of cleaning fluids, wear on stylus.

A few  bring decent $, many/most go for starting price $4.50. Money is nice, but not much after all the work, involved costs and fees. 
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I am thinking of selling based only on my visual inspection, letting buyer deal with any static, and keep my unconditional refund if buyer discovers a problem, i.e. a skip I didn't see. 

I view them, look Very Darn Good (no scuffs) or Darn Good (very minor scuffs): 1 photo, 1 link from wiki, a few specific words, done.

No hesitation on refunds whatsoever.
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So, what do you think, will people buy, trusting they only need to deal with static? People already trust my unconditional refund, nobody has asked for a refund based on anything but USPO destruction. What's different is they have to deal with static.
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whart
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I actually prefer buying records that haven’t been cleaned by the seller given big questions about how effectively they clean (I have a very good regime) and whether the "cleaning" is really further contaminating the record. I don’t know why you have static issues, but I can deal with that. The main concern I have as a heavy buyer of some serious used records (private label or rare jazz, proto-metal, early prog, etc) is groove chew-- that is, noise in the groove caused by damage from kludgey turntable set ups that visual inspection will not reveal.
One other thing that is common- warps. I once asked a seller if the record he was offering was warped. He responded by saying "you’d have to be an idiot to offer a warped record." I bought from him and guess what? Thankfully, I have one of those fancy (Orb/Furutech DF 2) disc flatteners.
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whart
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@chakster said: "It’s better to buy on discogs as you can see exact pressing, deadmarks and all details about each version."
My reaction: unless the seller misgraded and/or put the record in the wrong category. I usually converse through the Discogs messaging system to confirm deadwax and condition. It’s not consistent, but some sellers will respond by saying sorry, not that pressing or I overgraded. That’s the honest ones. But, I’m not criticizing Discogs. I buy a lot of records.


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