We love it when our customers take the time and make the effort to do their own shootouts, especially when we win, which is what happens about 99% of the time.
Hey Tom,
I’ve really been enjoying the LPs that I’ve gotten from you. Especially the Led Zep 3 most recently. Mindboggingly good. My first copy of that record I got Christmas 1970, I now have twelve copies in total… eleven of them are useless.
Think of all the money wasted on bad pressings, which 98% of them are! If not bad, then certainly mediocre.
I want to thank you for this invaluable service. I tell my friends about your service but so far it falls on deaf ears.
All the best,
Fred
Fred,
If you want to convince them of the reality of Hot Stampers, play them that for Zep III you bought. Ask them to bring over their best pressings and then blow that shit right out of the water. That ought to do it.
As I wrote to a customer not long ago, explaining doesn’t work.
According to my reading of Schopenhauer, I believe the email you see on the left illustrates the first stage that truth must pass through.
All truth passes through three stages.
First, it is ridiculed, second it is violently opposed, and third, it is accepted as self-evident.
He seems to be upset with us for some reason, but we could not be less concerned with what it might be considering that he has no manners. If something you don’t understand makes you this angry, the prices we charge for records are the least of your problems.
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