Buying Used CDs And Finding Stuff You Didn't Know You Paid For

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Danny

August 30, 2007, 12:37:05 PM
Bought this cd used a few days ago and saved a few dollars:



However, when opening up the case to listen to the Mahler music, I saw what looked like a gigantic booger on the sleeve notes. 

I must say, I was a little disappointed/upset.

Has this ever happened to you when buying used discs?

marvinbrown

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August 30, 2007, 01:07:40 PM
Quote from: Danny on August 30, 2007, 12:37:05 PM
Bought this cd used a few days ago and saved a few dollars:



However, when opening up the case to listen to the Mahler music, I saw what looked like a gigantic booger on the sleeve notes. 

I must say, I was a little disappointed/upset.

Has this ever happened to you when buying used discs?


  See this is why I do not buy used cds....

  marvin

Maciek

#2
August 30, 2007, 01:34:18 PM
No, he really does look like that! ;D

(Someone had to say this. :P)

Solitary Wanderer

#3
August 30, 2007, 01:48:59 PM
Sounds awful :(

As a general rule I don't buy used discs.
'I lingered round them, under that benign sky: watched the moths fluttering among the heath and harebells, listened to the soft wind breathing through the grass, and wondered how any one could ever imagine unquiet slumbers for the sleepers in that quiet earth.' ~ Emily Bronte

Larry Rinkel

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August 30, 2007, 01:53:13 PM
Quote from: Danny on August 30, 2007, 12:37:05 PM
Bought this cd used a few days ago and saved a few dollars:



However, when opening up the case to listen to the Mahler music, I saw what looked like a gigantic booger on the sleeve notes. 

I must say, I was a little disappointed/upset.

Has this ever happened to you when buying used discs?


Every once in a while I run into a bad disc, or missing pins on the case, or minor damage to the booklet. It's relatively uncommon, and most of the time I have found used CDs well worth the slight risk, especially if you buy from a seller with a good rating on Amazon or eBay.

beclemund

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August 30, 2007, 02:04:32 PM
I am such a germaphobe, I would have thrown it away... I generally do shy away from used discs. On occasion, there are no other options, so I repress my usual fears and bite the bullet. So far, no boogers.  :o
"A guilty conscience needs to confess. A work of art is a confession." -- Albert Camus

johnQpublic

#6
August 30, 2007, 03:15:05 PM
No boogers, but I have gotten one or two booklets that seem to have barely survived a hurricane.

Que

#7
August 30, 2007, 05:45:30 PM
It's sometimes amazing to see how people have maltreated there CD's - and yours if you lend something to them (but that is another subject, already covered before).

I almost never buy used, unless there's no other option and I want the item real bad.
Then I buy only items with a condition indicated as "like new" - in most instances those have in fact never been used, but just aren't sealed or have minor shelf wear from long term storage.

Q

Dancing Divertimentian

#8
August 30, 2007, 06:50:13 PM
Quote from: beclemund on August 30, 2007, 02:04:32 PM
I am such a germaphobe, I would have thrown it away... I generally do shy away from used discs. On occasion, there are no other options, so I repress my usual fears and bite the bullet. So far, no boogers.  :o

CD's are washable, you know. Just dump them in a sinkful of soapy water (antibacterial, of course 8)) and give 'em a thorough washing!

Wouldn't recommend it for booklets, though. Could try rubbing alcohol - it dries quick!.



Veit Bach-a baker who found his greatest pleasure in a little cittern which he took with him even into the mill and played while the grinding was going on. In this way he had a chance to have the rhythm drilled into him. And this was the beginning of a musical inclination in his descendants. JS Bach

Don

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August 30, 2007, 07:17:16 PM
Quote from: Danny on August 30, 2007, 12:37:05 PM
Bought this cd used a few days ago and saved a few dollars:



However, when opening up the case to listen to the Mahler music, I saw what looked like a gigantic booger on the sleeve notes. 

I must say, I was a little disappointed/upset.

Has this ever happened to you when buying used discs?


Just wipe it up and enjoy the disc.  Sounds like a small matter to me.

lisa needs braces

#10
August 30, 2007, 08:32:53 PM
Mahler just brings that out in people.

Szykneij

#12
August 31, 2007, 11:45:09 AM
Quote from: beclemund on August 30, 2007, 02:04:32 PM
I am such a germaphobe, I would have thrown it away...

So would he:



Used CDs? No thanks!
Men profess to be lovers of music, but for the most part they give no evidence in their opinions and lives that they have heard it.  ~ Henry David Thoreau

Don't pray when it rains if you don't pray when the sun shines. ~ Satchel Paige

Don

#13
August 31, 2007, 11:47:12 AM
Quote from: Szykniej on August 31, 2007, 11:45:09 AM
So would he:



Used CDs? No thanks!

Great response.  Isn't Mr. Monk the guy who uses a bar of soap only once and then throws it away?

Szykneij

#14
August 31, 2007, 11:50:58 AM
Quote from: Don on August 31, 2007, 11:47:12 AM
Great response.  Isn't Mr. Monk the guy who uses a bar of soap only once and then throws it away?

That's the guy. It's one of the few TV shows I get to see with any regularity and I really enjoy it.
Men profess to be lovers of music, but for the most part they give no evidence in their opinions and lives that they have heard it.  ~ Henry David Thoreau

Don't pray when it rains if you don't pray when the sun shines. ~ Satchel Paige

prémont

#15
August 31, 2007, 02:26:10 PM
No, I never buy second-hand CDs.
BTW excuse my ignorance, what is a booger? Some insect I suppose.
Reality trumps our fantasy far beyond imagination.

Solitary Wanderer

#16
August 31, 2007, 05:18:21 PM
'I lingered round them, under that benign sky: watched the moths fluttering among the heath and harebells, listened to the soft wind breathing through the grass, and wondered how any one could ever imagine unquiet slumbers for the sleepers in that quiet earth.' ~ Emily Bronte
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