relisted item due to previous error in international postage options

...THIS IS A LOVELY COPY OF THE VERY MUCH RARER DARK APPLE VARIANT OF THE UK EXPORT PRESSED CPCS 106 " HEY JUDE " L@@K....

NON UK BUYERS PLEASE NOTE MY COMMENTS REGARDING INTERNATIONAL MAIL BELOW...RETURNS POLICY ONLY APPLICABLE TO UK..RETURNS OUTSIDE UK BUYER WILL HAVE TO COVER ALL POSTAGE COSTSFurthermore international bidders please also note that due to ebays new "buyer protection " policy many sellers now refuse to sell internationally anymore. I am not one of those sellers yer but please note I do now reserve the right to refuse to complete a sale to any international bidder that may have low or bad feedback or for any other reason and this is especially so if the item sells for over GBP 100, like I say this is purely a result of ebay/paypals new policy that make it now even harder for sellers to  trade safely internationally. Please bare this in mind if you win an item but find that it has been offered first instead to a domestic UK Bidder.

FOR BIDDERS WITH ZERO FEEDBACK THIS IS ALSO VERY IMPORTANT...   I have recently been the victim of serveral spurious bids from several different members (usually based in the Russian Federation). Please note that if you win any of my items and have zero feedback I will ask you for immediate payment or for you to email and immediately confirm that you were a genuine bidder. Failiure to meet either of those critiera will result in the item being  offered to the next highest bidder without further delay. thank you. 

ALL MY RECORDS ARE USUALLY SOLD ON VISUAL GRADINGS ONLY, THEREFORE, WITH THE SINGULAR EXCEPT ON THOSE RARE OCCASSIONS WHERE I DO STATE THEY HAVE BEEN PLAY GRADED, AS ALL DISCS ARE 2ND HAND ANY PLAYING DEFECTS ARE THEREFORE CAVIAT EMPTOR AND SO NON REFUNDABLE. I ONLY REFUND  WHERE AN ACTUAL GRADING OF MINE IS DISPUTED

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THIS WAS THE FOURTH U.S. LP THAT EMI IN PRODUCED IN THE UK SUPPOSEDLY FOR EXPORT ONLY ( ALTHOUGH DUE TO DOMESTIC DEMAND MANY WERE SOLD FROM NEW BY SOME U.K. RETAILERS TOO ).

THEY ARE IDENTIFIED BY THEIR CATALOGUE NUMBERS CPCS, PCS = PARLOPHONE AND C = CAPITOL AS THE MASTERS ARE THE U.S. MIXES AS MADE BY CAPITOL RECORDS. HEY JUDE IS BY FAR THE MOST COMMON OF THESE EXPORT PRESSINGS ( ALTHOUGH EVEN HEY JUDE IS FAR RARER IN COMPARISION TO ANY OTHER STANDARD UK BEATLE RELEASE ) AND EXSIST'S IN SEVERAL DIFFERENT VARIANTS.

WHEN FIRST ISSUED IN 1970 THEY APPEAR ON THE DARK APPLE LABEL LIKE THIS ONE. THIS LASTED UNTIL 1973 WHEN THE LABEL BECOMES A MUCH LIGHTER " GOLDEN DELICIOUS " COLOUR APPLE. IT ALSO SEEMS THAT BECAUSE OF A DEMAND MORE OF THESE LABEL COPIES WERE PRESSED AND CONTINUED TO BE SO UNTIL WAY INTO THE MID-SEVENTIES. BY THIS TIME THE VINYL HAD ALSO BECOMES LIGHTER AND OF POORER QUALITY AS A RESULT OF THE 73 OIL CRISIS AND ALTHOUGH SOME EARLY LIGHT APPLE LABEL COPIES ARE ISSUED ON HIGHER QUALITY PRE-OIL CRISIS VINYL, MOST ARE NOT.

ACCORDINGLY THE DARK APPLE LABEL COPIES ARE FAR RARER THAN THE LIGHT APPLE COPIES ARE USUALLY ON A HIGHER QUALITY VINYL AND ARE SO FAR MORE SORT AFTER, AND ESPECIALLY SO IN THIS CONDITION.

( IT SHOULD ALSO BE NOTED THAT THERE IS A " PYE " CONTRACT PRESSED VARIANT THAT EXSISTS ON THE LIGHT APPLE LABEL AND THAT IN 1979 THIS LP RECEIVED AN OFFICAL RELEASE IN THE UK ON THE PARLOPHONE LABLE WITH A PCS CATALOGUE NUMBER )

DOMESTIC UK RECORDED DELIVERY & PACKAGING GBP 3.99 FOR A SINGLE LP AND GBP 4.99 FOR A DOUBLE LP, INTERNATIONAL BIDDERS PLEASE SEE MY NOTE BELOW.

For Auction here is the UK EXPORT LP ''  HEY JUDE  " 

ARTIST:  THE BEATLES

MONO/STEREO: STEREO

Cat. No : CPCS 106

LABEL: DARK APPLE 

COUNTRY: UK

DATE: 1970

MATRICIES: -1 -1

MOTHER STAMPERS : 2RD   1GG ( EARLY ) 

VINYL WEIGHT: 135g

THE CONDITION :

VINYL VISUAL: STUNNING COPY RETAINS IT'S LOVELY SHEEN,  SIDE TWO SOME MOSTLY ONLY LIGHT MARKS ARE DETECTABLE UNDER A BRIGHT HALOGEN LIGHT ,  GRADES EX-  SIDE ONE HARDLY ANY MARKS EVEN UNDER A BRIGHT LIGHT, GRADES EX+TO NEAR MINT

SLEEVE: LOVELY EXAMPLE  WITH SHARP OPENINGS, SOME CREASING SO GRADES EX- AT WORST

LABELS NO WRITINGS OR STICKERS AND SHOWS ONLY MINIMAL SIGNS OF PLAY, BOTH SIDES GRADE EX

GOOD LUCK TO ALL BIDDERS, THIS IS A LOVELY AND EXAMPLE!! 

(Please note that whilst I try to endeavour to adhere to strict RC gradings I will never describe ANYTHING AS MINT even when I think it to be so. As far as I am concerned any secondhand item by definition cannot be mint. However if I believe an item to be Mint  I will instead either use the terms Near Mint, mint minus, or in archive or vault condition. When I use these terms you know that in my opinion this is in effect a de-facto Mint grade )

INSURANCE INCLUDED IN P&P PRICE DEPENDING ON FINAL SALE VALUE...

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I ONLY DO A COUPLE OF RUNS A WEEK TO THE POST OFFICE BUT MY ITEMS ARE ALWAYS DISPATCHED WELL WITHIN ONE CALENDAR WEEK OF PAYMENT BEING RECEIVED. I APOLOGISE IN ADVANCE TO THOSE BUYERS WHO SEEM TO EXPECT THEIR ITEM TO ARRIVE THE NEXT DAY, IF YOU WANT TO CHECK WHEN AN ITEM WAS SENT JUST PLEASE FEEL FREE TO EMAIL ME AND I WILL BE VERY HAPPY TO TELL YOU!! (SOME PEOPLE DO MAKE YOU LAUGH, FOR ITEMS I BUY I ONLY NORMALLY GET CONCERNED AFTER A COUPLE OF WEEKS AND EVEN AFTER THAT THEN ONLY POLIETELY ENQUIRE IF AND WHEN THE ITEM WAS SENT).

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PAYMENTS BY PAYPAL ARE PREFERRED BUT I ALSO ACCEPT OTHER METHODS. I ALSO POST WORLDWIDE (PLS APPLY FOR RATES) BUT DUE TO A PROBLEM WITH A DISREPUTABLE BUYER IN JAPAN (EBAY WILL NOT ALLOW ME TO NAME THEM) , FOR ALL PAYMENTS MADE VIA PAYPAL THE ITEM WILL ONLY BE SENT BOTH TO THE UK AND WORLDWIDE BY RECORDED OR INTERNATIONAL SIGNED FOR DELIVERY. THIS IS TO ELIMINATE THE POSSIBILITY OF ANY ATTEMPT TO CLAIM BACK THE PAYMENT VIA PAYPAL EVEN AFTER ACTUALLY HAVING RECEIVED THE ITEM.

THIS OBVIOUSLY HAS HAD THE RESULT OF INCREASING MY COSTS FOR POSTING AND PACKING AND I AM VERY SORRY FOR THIS BUT PAYPAL OFFER NO PROTECTION FOR SELLERS UNLESS THERE IS PROOF OF DELIVERY!! PROOF OF POSTING WOULD SEEM INSUFFICIENT TO THEM AND I HAVE FOUND THIS OUT THE HARD WAY..

DUE TO THE BEHAVIOUR OF THIS SAME BUYER PAYPAL PAYMENTS WILL ALSO NOT BE ACCEPTED FROM BUYERS WHO DO NOT ALLOW THEIR FEEDBACK TO READ, SO IF YOU FALL INTO THIS CATEGORY PLEASE DO NOT BID ON MY ITEMS UNLESS YOU CAN PAY BY ANOTHER METHOD…….COST VIA INTERNATIONAL SIGNED FOR MAIL TO EUROPE FOR A SINGLE LP IS USUALLY GBP 8.99 AND TO THE USA/REST OF THE WORLD GBP 12.99 FOR A SINGLE LP AND 15.99 FOR A DOUBLE... 

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