Photos are an integral part of this listing and all listings. Please enlarge and examine them closely.  Feel free to request more area-specific, feature-specific images. We replace all splices and the pressure pads when necessary. Once replaced, we play the entire tape through once to check for major flaws in the playability and performance. However, these tapes are around 40 years old and anything can happen, from sections of poor sound quality to the tape itself breaking. All 8-track tape players are different. Given that and the age and history of 8-track tapes, all tapes are sold as is. Visibly, the condition of our tapes ranges from poor to good, with a lot of them showing wrinkly worn labels, with some tears, discoloration and (occasionally) partially-missing labels, and a few pen marks here or there.  Use the photo associated with each tape as your guide.