Scratched Queens Edition

[lindsayy_mae]

Mine was a little scratched too:( I was still so thrilled to have it, just a couple dings so I shrugged. Do you have pics of it? Wondering if ours is to the same extent

[lindsayy_mae]

Haven’t checked the actual vinyls!! Just have a couple scratches on the cover, and the corners

[zrivers50]

Hard to capture the scratches on camera, but it’s scuffing and dents on the outside of all three red vinyl jackets.

[Raymond AF]

Mine look fine. I would immediately take pics and reach out so the merch team can be aware if there was a bad batch or something. Hopefully they can exchange them out for you if they are damaged. Would hate to damage your vinyl player and have subpar brand new vinyl from Jon!

[06112024]

The inside was fine for mine but the corners were a dented/beat up

[jaydaniels]

Mine has to survive the international journey so I hope it’s packed well. This thread has me worried.

[jaydaniels]

@zrivers50 just got mine in Australia. Yes the artwork is super scratched all over, but this is a factory issue. It was made like this unfortunately. 2 of my discs are pristine. Side E has two big scratches on it. But yeah, this is unavoidable I don’t think it’s a bad batch I think the artwork was all just scratched up in manufacturing process. Otherwise the package and presentation itself is ELITE. Happy to own it.

[jaydaniels]

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[zrivers50]

@jaydaniels
The store in the US offered me a full refund if I shipped it back, or a partial refund if I was ok keeping it. I took the partial because I want the memory of the concert. Might be worth reaching out, especially if the vinyl itself is scratched.

[its_nat07]

@jaydaniels mines like this too!!

[jaydaniels]

@its_nat07 I can even see the same sort of scratching on the image for it on Discogs (someone else’s version). It’s heart breaking because this is such an elite package. But I feel like an exchange would be pointless if they’re all like this from this first batch of stock. Makes it sting a little less knowing it’s common. But the fact they’re only offering refunds or partial refunds tells me that shipping out another LP it’ll probably be the same, and perhaps the stock is limited. I’ll probably just keep mine because I’ve seen on reddit some people got copies where it had a duplicate of Side C and D’s sleeve encasing the vinyl for side E and F. So there was no E and F sleeve at all. And other people had unplayable warped records so I don’t want to even risk getting something worse.