Fuck all that, I've weeded through tons of garbage to find some gold with my pt-01. If I'm spending money in someones shop they don't care that I get what I actually want. I really only bring it to flea markets and yard sales since all the record shops I go to other than goodwill have turntables set up for previewing records already set-up, it's pretty standard for any shop that takes buying and selling records seriously.

As for scratching this is all you need to know.(this was already posted here by someone)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y-R1aNrIq5A

I dunno if that guy did the same thing as me, but I just removed the glue stuff holding the mat onto the platter so that it operates as a slipmat, and if you're moving the turntable around a lot, and you don't want it falling off all the time, all you need is some double sided sticky tape to fix it back in place

...actually thats prob. pretty obvious advice lol