warped reggae record can now be flattened safely

[ton1]

These flatteners work - I've seen it first hand, but only for warps not caused by heat damage. There's no way to fix those.

oh yes, it can work but the price of manufacturing that type of machine is ridiculous compared to the price it is sold, so you are free to buy this if you want, they must be laughing .

And $2000 is not that much money considering you're basically printing money with the thing by putting value to an otherwise worthless record.

I have approximately 1500 records (not only reggae) at home and maybe 5 of them or even less (only one comes to my mind) would really need to be flattened. I would surely need a machine to get rid of scuffs and marks to make my records more playable (and valuable) but definitely not that silly thing.

[jordandance]

Why are you worried about heir cost of manufacturing the machine? Let them deal with that.

There are people that have flattening machines who offer their services, so you need not buy it to try. The machine may not be worth it to you, but when you're out buying old store stock and collections (and getting sometimes 50 odd copies of the same warp record), it's use can be very fruitful.

[leggo rocker]

The price of something means nothing.

What the makers pays to make is not the method of calculation, it's how much the buyer is prepared to pay to buy that counts.

This is capitalism, where stuff is sold for the highest price that the seller can get. In another, better, world it would probably regarded as theft.