Hello, YB! Thank you! And thanks for watching and commenting. Skol! Jeff

Thanks, Topper! Appreciate it. Yep, buying online is often a frustrating experience. I much prefer buying in person. Luckily, things are starting to open up here in Wisconsin and I'm taking some vacation time next week, so...I'm looking forward to going out digging! Skol, Jeff

Hi, Tony! Thanks for watching and commenting! Skol, Jeff

Hi, Chris! Fan-Club-Only Bing album...that sounds super cool! Thanks for watching, commenting, and making the introduction. Will definitely check out your channel. Skol! Jeff

Thanks, Rick! I love Bing. Especially early Bing. Just finished volume one of Gary Giddins' 2 volume biography of Bing. Gained a whole new perspective on the pivotal role that he played in early jazz, recording, movies, pop-culture, etc. Super cool. Looking forward to diving into volume 2. Thanks for watching and commenting! Skol, Jeff

Hey, Steve! Thanks for stopping by! How are you? Saw your flooding on FB. Wow, that's really scary. Any word yet on the condition of the house & basement? Been thinking about you, worrying for you, keeping you in prayer. Skol! Jeff

Hi, James! Some sellers are fantastic and earn my trust. Others...nope. Buying on line can definitely be a crap-shoot. Thanks for watching and commenting. Skol! Jeff

Hey, Kevin! Great question. Yeah, Discogs is basically a public database and members (those with accounts) may add, edit, delete, entries. Entries do have a community rating/approval system that's supposed to help verify that the information is correct, but the reliability of that is often spotty at best, in my opinion at least. In some cases the Discogs info is super helpful and right on, but often I treat it like Wikipedia - someone's opinion. My biggest complaint with Discogs are the duplicate entries. So often people add "new" entries for an item without checking to make sure it's not already on Discogs. Thanks for watching and commenting! Skol, Jeff

Hello! It's really frustrating, because if grading is done well, from NM on down, then VG really would be VERY GOOD, i.e. records in lesser condition but that will play well and still be enjoyable. And G would be where things get dicey. But, unfortunately, many folks grade records NM that are really only VG+ and then the whole scale slides down from there. Near Mint records should be rare, because so few records are actually like new. That's why they command top dollar. Anyway...I can rant about this topic all day long. Thanks for watching and commenting! Skol, Jeff

Yes! Absolutely! Thanks for watching and commenting. Skol, Jeff

Hey, Mike! Yeah, I don't see how sellers can accurately grade records that aren't clean. You just can't. Thanks for watching and commenting! Skol, Jeff

@@ToneInGrooves Some sellers, with justification, argue under 5$ records should not be cleaned, at least on a machine. I only sell more expensive records online as not economically ideal to sell under 5-10 $ records. To list, find, clean, ship one vinyl takes on average 20-25 minutes if you do it correctly. But your seller presumably takes a rough scan and just ships them out without much checking.