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In Reply to: RE: The perils of buying used tape on Ebay posted by mcgjohn@yahoo.com on September 23, 2016 at 09:45:19:

I agree with all you say. In the case of my six "Maxell UDXL" tapes I was going by the leader, with only one of them clearly designated as a "35-80." But i've since found that the leader isn't trustworthy. I do tend to trust the original owner, if only because of his meticulous notes on what the tapes contained -- off-air 3 3/4 4-track stuff, though.

And a couple others have turned out to be what the box says they are. I'm still working my way through this particular batch. For 50 bucks I really can't complain.

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Topic - The perils of buying used tape on Ebay - Dave Pogue 05:33:21 09/23/16 (6)

RE: The perils of buying used tape on Ebay - mcgjohn@yahoo.com 09:52:52 09/23/16 (1)

RE: The perils of buying used tape on Ebay - Dave Pogue 12:58:09 09/23/16 (0)

RE: The perils of buying used tape on Ebay - X-2000R 07:00:13 09/23/16 (3)

RE: The perils of buying used tape on Ebay - mcgjohn@yahoo.com 09:45:19 09/23/16 (2)

Things are looking up. - Dave Pogue 13:09:16 09/23/16 (0)

RE: The Double Edged Sword - X-2000R 10:22:56 09/23/16 (0)

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Things are looking up. - Dave Pogue 13:09:16 09/23/16 (0)

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