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Today I had some bad ebay when some 8-tracks arrived with melted pinch rollers. Here's the letter I wrote to the seller. I'll see how he responds.

Subject:"sold as is"

I am disappointed with these 8-tracks. Saying "sold as is" without saying just what "as is" means is hardly responsible when one of the tapes (Mamas and Papas) is spewing its gooky melted pinch roller all over its tape, and another (John Mayall) is also melted and unplayable, while not yet at a messy stage. I may be able to fix the Mayall tape though few hardy souls undertake to open an ampex cart at all, but I doubt if anyone can fix the other.

When one is purchasing 8-tracks as a lot, one is usually interested in some of the lot more than others. As it happens, I was looking particularly for the Mayall tape as I have most of the others already and am not so interested in others. If I was not as savvy about 8-tracks as I am, I might have stuck one of these broken 8-tracks into my player and broken that too by filling it with melted rubber goo. As it is, and because your communications during the transactions were so pleasant, I will wait to hear from you befoe deciding whether to go so far as to leave bad feedback for you. Perhaps you were merely negligent and not intentionally misrepresenting this product. If you never even removed the dustcap from the Mamas and Papas tape you would not have see n the gooky mess inside. Perhaps you are not very familiar with 8-tracks and their flaws.

Waiting to hear your response, &C.

Secretly I hope he says he'll send me some more 8-tracks!

Also my Booker T. and the MGs - McLemore Avenue 8-track came today. It's all organ Beatles covers. Cool. The Stax version of Abbey Road.