What does Uhqr mean concerning records?

MoFi I have heard that there were a minimum of three different stampers used for Crime, and that one of them bests the other three. But this was anecdotal and I have never been able to verify the accuracy of this. My copy and the two others that I have seen all have the same matrix numbers. Can you shead any light on this, or is it all just heat?

At the outrageous price sellers ask for one, you'd get much better sound from Better Record's white hot stampers with an equally lighter wallet.

Can anyone give a realistic price range for these UHQR's from decent shape and used to unopened, still sealed and new in box?

And by that, I dont mean buy it now for $1 MM, but prices where they would actually trade.

I am from the school of thought that generally speaking, audio has gotten steadily worse since about 1989, and can also recommend them.

I have seen opened UHQRs trade from $125.00 to $800.00 or so opened and pretty much the skys the limit sealed, $1800.00 or so for the most desired sealed titles. It is a lot of money, but the market is pretty solid, you can always sell them without taking too big a hit, or in some cases, making a few bucks. I am not so sure that this is the case with "white hot stampers", LOL.

For only a few $1800 sales, I bet I could buy my own sealing machine.

So I have always wondered how do you know if its really new and/or how many times a used or even empty UHQRs passed through several hands as "new"?

Not to make anyone paranoid - they are otherwise good recordings.