Are these test presses real or a scam?
I’ve been noticing a lot of reference vinyl on ebay; more and more actually. As far as counterfeiting a one-of-a-kind piece of collector’s gear, I’d think that a reference record would be right on top. Cheap straight black logos, typewriter song lists… hell, no one knows what the actual reference disk looked like, I mean it’s not documented anywhere because there’s only one out there, and since there was only one pressed, its automatically worth a ton. Isn’t that a counterfeiter’s dream?
A quick ebay search resulted in 257 test press auctions. Really? Is it possible that 257 real test presses are out there for sale right now?
Look at Nirvana’s Bleach in this search result – it’s in there twice! Now obviously, there can be more than one test press, each member of the band may get one, the producer, maybe even for different versions of the album as they are released… but honestly, what are the chances that they’d show up on ebay during the same auction time-window?
