[Heeplist] Fake Heep records on sale at ebay?

[todd klun]

Poor quality pressings and fakes are easy to find especially from the
Russia Ukraine area .. I had bought some Led Zep and Beatles from Russia
just to have them in my collection and the sound quality is like they were
cut straight from a CD .  ..It is possible to get an original pressing in
near mint condition , but how many are really out there ? Ask them to read
or text the numbers and letters in the run off grooves of each side. Maybe
have them send pics .. Those are like serial numbers .. if those numbers
arent anything like others from other Verigo discs , dont buy them .. ask
others on heep list for numbers from the Heep Albums they have and do some
comparing before buying .. surely some one on the Heep list has a
comparable disc in thier collection and they can look and send all the info
in the run off grooves..

On Sat, Oct 10, 2015 at 6:05 PM, Terje Pedersen <terjped at hotmail.com> wrote:

> As a record collector and mostly in Heep records I do follow very closely
> whats going on at ebay and other online stores.
> Recently I seen quite a few of the very sought after Heep Vertigo UK 1st
> issue albums on ebay, and not only the Vertigo ones which normally go for
> like £300-400 but also first issues of other Heep albums.
> The thing that caught my eye is that while the sleeve looks to have some
> age
> the records looks brand new and are sold as mint condition. And also, they
> ALL come from the Ukraine.  I wonder why so many first issues ended up
> behind the iron curtain in the early 70`s, if I should guess I would say
> exactly none ended up there :-P
> So I am willing to bet this is all fakes and some people trying to scam
> collectors.   Nothing new really but not often seen with Heep records so
> just wanted to post a warning here...
>
> Heep on
> Terje
>
>
>
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