[78-L] OT Amazon Goes A-Wooing other agents?

[David Lennick]

The giveaway was when the bootlegger spelled CHRONOLOGICAL correctly.

I've been bootlegged for years. My earliest ProArte/Intersound titles were 
distributed by a Canadian agent until the company opened its own branch in 
Toronto, but he kept duplicating the old titles and printing horrible 19th 
generation tray cards and even doing shortened versions of them to sell in 
dollar stores.

dl

On 1/30/2013 4:41 PM, warren moorman wrote:
> Julian:
>
> Last week I bought the Blanche Calloway cd on Chronological Classics from a source on Amazon-I thought.
>
> It was listed as used-like new, and described as still in the shrink wrap, despite being OP for many years. That made me wonder, but I thought perhaps they'd uncovered some left over dealer stock somewhere. The price was in the mid-twenties, just about what they've sold for on B-Aye (most of these CC issues sell above their initial list, with some having absurd asking prices). I was tired of waiting for a copy at auction that would be winnable at a reasonable amount, so despite the dear price I ordered it. When it came it was shrink wrapped (loosely), but the cover looked suspiciously pixilated, and upon opening I saw that it was clearly a bootleg, with a scanned tray card, and the cd was obviously a burned copy. The certain give away was that the booklet that accompanied CC releases was missing; they'd just copied the front cover for the cd front.
>
> The kicker was that when I went back and looked, they were still listing a copy for sale, used-like new, shrink wrapped. But the price was almost three dollars less than I'd paid. Then the next day, same thing, except the price then was a dollar and a half less than mine! So they've clearly been dealing with "other agents" of some sort.
>
> I'm still working to resolve this. The seller was "marvelio" from Pennsylvania.
>
> Warren
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> I'm just wondering if these suppliers actually have their
> catalogue in stock, or if they order stuff from yet other agents?
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