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

[Don Cox]

On 30/01/2013, 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.
> 
You can at least give them a one-star report.


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Don Cox
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