His claim that the crack does not enter the playing surface is false. The crack extends into the playing surface. I believe it was the A side that looked the cleanest. Lots of small scuffs but not terrible. The other side, on the other hand, looked as though it had received a load of buck shot. Both sides played through but not without distracting noise. In my opinion, the true value of this particular copy has already been surpassed by the hapless bidders. As I said when I won this from him before, he claimed that the record was not cracked. Lou Stanley later told me of the swap in NC where he had passed on this copy because it said clearly on the sleeve "CRACKED". Then our "seller" bought it and decided to see what he could get out of it on the bay. Minus a truthful description of course. When I confronted him about this he admitted that it was sold to him as cracked but that he'd looked at it and he "couldn't see no crack". My guess is that his reserve will not be less than $250 because I believe that's what he paid for it. I was as nice and patient with this guy as I could be. Then he berated me over the phone and told me that my standards were simply to high and that I was nothing more than an elitist record collector. The fault was clearly not with him or his deceitful practices. Bid at your own peril. People like this simply don't deserve your business though.
