CDR alert (burn-to-order CDRs sold "as" CDs)

[mahler10th]

Should Karl and I split duties for the Eastern US, John?

and

...I mean what you get most of the time is just the disc with some crappy looking duplicated cover made out of really cheap paper. Also, the information isn't printed on the inside jackets. All you get after paying a high price to begin with is a cheap cop out and nothing to really show for it.

After describing what will be a quality product with very high production costs in such deplorable terms, you are out of the business plan.  Karl keeps the East Coast to himself.  You're fired!

***Promotes Ray to World Branding and Advertising***

[Mirror Image]

and

After describing what will be a quality product with very high production costs in such deplorable terms, you are out of the business plan.  Karl keeps the East Coast to himself.  You're fired!

***Promotes Ray to World Branding and Advertising***

Ooch!!!!

Although you've got to say it like the Donald:

[Dancing Divertimentian]

You might wish to wait until the MP seller responds to you and resolves the issue, and/or you hear from Arkiv about other people (re?)selling their wares; but I for one would like to know what you bought and what dealer sold it to you.  I don't like carping about all this, believe it or not; but having information like this out in (relative) public seems like the only way to maintain any quality control at all.  No different from reporting a manufacturing error in a run of a new product, etc.

Well, I emailed the seller and got a quick and courteous response. Turns out urkneal was right: he hadn't known it was a burn (or at least that's his story). I cut a deal with him and he accepted it and now I have my CDR at half the price I paid for it.

Pretty painless overall.

[Octave]

I was irritated to discover that my long-unopened Moeran disc from Lyrita is a CDR....from Wyastone!   
A note on the back cover indicated that the label is Lyrita "licensed for distribution by Wyastone", or some such thing.  Just a head's up.  I am assuming that many if not all "new" copies of Lyrita back catalog are CDRs from Nimbus.  I bought mine from Importcds, USA.

[asin]B00165QOSK[/asin]
Moeran: CELLO CONCERTO etc [Coetmore/Parkin/Boult] (Lyrita)

[The new erato]

I was irritated to discover that my long-unopened Moeran disc from Lyrita is a CDR....from Wyastone!   
A note on the back cover indicated that the label is Lyrita "licensed for distribution by Wyastone", or some such thing.  Just a head's up.  I am assuming that many if not all "new" copies of Lyrita back catalog are CDRs from Nimbus.  I bought mine from Importcds, USA.

[asin]B00165QOSK[/asin]
Moeran: CELLO CONCERTO etc [Coetmore/Parkin/Boult] (Lyrita)

I'm sadly aware of Lyrita and unfortnately avoid them like the plague as long as they are not able to assure me whether the disc I'm getting is a proper CD or a burnt to order substitute. I think there's a Wysatone site where they list who they produce for. The main problem is that back catalogue will be CDs and one has little chance to find out which is which when ordering.

[snyprrr]

I only drink grain alcohol and rain water.

[Karl Henning]

"Mandrake . . . ."

[bendingcaesar]

Seems like any Sony single CD that's still available on Amazon is a CD-R. In the past few years, I've bought the following CD-Rs without knowing it. Nowhere did it say these are CD-Rs...

https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B003YI3CXC/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b_search_asin_title?ie=UTF8&psc=1
https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0001TSWLY/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b_search_asin_title?ie=UTF8&psc=1
https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B000003FBY/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b_search_asin_title?ie=UTF8&psc=1
https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00008A8OX/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b_search_asin_title?ie=UTF8&psc=1
https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0007SK9GK/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b_search_asin_title?ie=UTF8&psc=1

So are all the Lyrita CDs still available on Amazon, CD-Rs?
I think the only safe place to buy single CDs now is Japan. They still release old recordings as real CDs.