Payment Methods
Accepted / Return and Refund Policy
Payments
Any of the following payment methods
will be accepted for my sale transactions or any trades deals that have
been worked out where payment to me is part of the agreement. US Orders
1. Paypal - Paypal will receive next mailing day shipping unless you
are
paying extra for rush delivery on a non-mailing day or Saturday
shipping.
2. Cashier's Check/Money Order - Money Orders will receive next mailing
day shipping after they have been cashed/deposited.
3. Check - Checks must clear before the item(s) will be sent, which can
typically take up to 7 to 10 business days. Any buyers who send
me a bad check will be blocked from buying anything more from me in
Discogs.
4. Well hidden cash (not recommended - at your own risk)
International
(outside US)
Orders
1. Paypal - Paypal will
receive next mailing day shipping unless you
are
paying extra for rush delivery on a non-mailing day or Saturday
shipping. 2. International Money orders - Will receive next mailing day shipping
after they have been cashed/deposited. 3. Well hidden cash - At your own risk. Not recommended.
Returns
Returns are accepted only for defective items. Defective items
will need to be mailed back to me before a refund for the original
item(s) and return shipping costs will be given. Every open item
I sell has been tested at least once for perfect playback, and all
items I sell will be inspected again before they're packed up and sent
out. I would never attempt to sell a CD that skips in any spot
unless the CD was extremely rare and, in additional to indicated that
the CD was defective, I was also including a CDR burn of a flawless
copy that I possess in one of my collections. If my pre-packing
inspection of the disc turns up something that disturbs me, I may delay
the order a day or two so that I can re-check the playback of any
disc(s) of concern to confirm they're still good. It is extremely
rare that a pressed CD will develop problems just sitting in its case,
even over many years, but it has happened to me a few times. A
still sealed CD I send out which a buyer claims to be defective when
opened had better look new (i.e. without a bunch of scratches, etc.)
when I received it back if a full refund is expected. If I have
any issues with buyers claiming a still sealed CD I've sent them is
defective, then I may in the future stop selling sealed CDs altogether,
and open all of my sealed CDs and play them through once. But for
now, there's only been one or two instances in my 20+ years of
collecting where something I sold to someone sealed was said to be
defective, and I was able to confirm that myself by opening other
sealed copies of the same title which, a few of which had a similar
problem.
If you think you have a defective disc, please do the following first
before asking for a refund. Play the disc in several CD
players if you have access to more than one player. Old CD
players can get dirt and grime buildup in the mechanical parts over
time to the point where they will begin skipping on perfectly good
CDs. A defective CD will always skip in the same location(s) for
all players you try them in, so do try the disc on several players to
be sure the issue is really the disc and not a particular CD player you
have. Take a look at the playing side too under a good high
wattage light (300+ Watt, if possible). A defective CD that skips
will usually have some sort of deep scratch or scuff at the point where
the skipping is occurring. (Playback will be from the center near
the CD spindle hole outward - the opposite of a vinyl record.) If
you have a powerful light and you look close enough, you can usually
see the track division lines, so you can estimate about where the
scuff/scratch should be based on the track that's skipping. If
you don't see anything at that track width section around the disc,
then it's a good chance your CD player is the issue and not the disc,
and you need to try it out on a least two players. Upon final
pre-packaging inspection, all discs I send out will be cleaned (if
needed) of any fingerprints, dirt, etc. on the playing side that might
be a cause for skipping, so you don't have to worry about that being
the issue.
Returns are not accepted if you don't like the music on the disc.
I had one buyer many years ago request the return of a cassette he
bought because he didn't like the music on it. Back then, before
the dawn of Amazon Digital, YouTube, CD Baby, Bandcamp, etc., it might
have been a little more understandable, and I did allow this particular
buyer to exchange the cassette he didn't want for another cassette I
had available, but only that one time. In this day and age,
there's no excuse for not liking what you're buying because you hadn't
heard any of the music yet. And I will not be preparing song
soundbytes to preview unless you are offering to trade me a really rare
CD that I greatly desire to have, in which case I will be at your
reasonable service to accommodate a preview of the songs off several
albums that are not readily available for previewing on the internet
which you may be interested in but not sure that you really want.
Refunds
The window of opportunity to get a full refund with a Paypal
transaction without any additional fee losses is 60 days. So that
seems to me to be a reasonable time limitation for buyers to verify the
playback of all CDs they receive from me in a single transaction.
Buyers/Traders will need to check the playback of all your discs within
6 to 7 weeks, with any returns mailed back to me in time to arrive a
few days before the 60 day deadline to allow me to verify that the
item(s) are indeed defective. If a very large quantity of CDs is
sold or traded (i.e. more than 50), then a reasonable extension can be
made.
I won't offer any sort of warranty on the discs as, again, in this age
of relatively cheap digital technology, it is very easy and inexpensive
to make a permanent backup copy or two on CDR of a scratched CD that
still plays perfect but which you may have a concern that it would
"develop" a skipping issue due to neglegent handling of the disc.
CDs should always be held by the outer edge and the spindle hole, never
touching the playing or non-playing surfaces, and should always be kept
either in a player or in a case. If you plan on playing the disc
in your car CD player regularly, it would probably be best to make a
CDR copy of the album (without any stick-on labels), and play that in
your car playre rather than your original copy. The technology
and hardware necessary to make a digital CDR copy of a scratched CD
which still plays perfectly without issue is at a minimum now from what
it was many years ago, and will probably only continue to stay the same
or go down in price. And, of course, it doesn't take much
technological knowhow to pull a permanently archivable digital copy in
WAV, MP3 or other format immediately when you get the disc, which is
another reason why I will only accept returns for defective
discs. I will know if a CD has been returned to me in
significantly worse condition than it was sent to you, and in such
cases a refund will not be issued.
