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

[Julian Vein]

> 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.
>
>
> Regards
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I've bought stuff from "marvelio" without any problems. It's possible 
they are the innocent party in all this. They may be offering stuff that 
they are getting from a sub-agent, who is the rip-off merchant.

      Julian Vein