Dawn of the Dead (1978) - OUT OF PRINT

[RCRochester]

Originally Posted by rocknblues81

It got worse. When I wrote these messages the disc was still in my LG player. When I went to go get the disc out it was stuck in my player and I had to dig it out.

He is giving me shit about it. Asking why I would put it in my player knowing it had sticky residue. Well, the same reason I paid 40 dollars. This a rare item and I wanted it to work. If you see this disc up close you can see it on the disc. He says he will give a 3 dollar refund so that I can go have it resurfaced. It looks like I'm going to have to fight to get my money back.

His listing fails to mention anything that you described so I would not consider it to be in "good" condition like his listing says.

File a claim with Ebay / Paypal that item is not as described.

He may try to discourage you by saying he will only give a refund if you return the item to him first, if you do make sure you get a tracking number.

And of course leave neg feedback with precise info in a professional manner. If he responds in a ragey manner (like he did with the last two neg feedbacks he received) it does not look good on him as a seller.

[Vilya]

Originally Posted by DukeTogo84

What's funny is that I've bought hundreds of used DVD's in the past and had less problems that I've having with blu.

My experience has been that while DVDs scratch easier, they tolerate them better and continue to work. Blu-rays are more scratch resistant, but when they become scratched they are much more likely to malfunction. Just my personal observations.

[RCRochester]

Originally Posted by TripleHBK

Or that he himself just didn't like the stickers. I pull any rental ring stickers off immediately upon purchase whenever any of my films have them as well, so while it's possible he was attempting to be sneaky, it's also possible he was just trying to clean up/restore the disc to something closer to retail.

Could be but when listing a DVD or blu-ray on E-Bay there is a specific field that says "Ex-Rental?" If it was an ex-rental, and it's sounding like it was, he should be selecting "Yes" from the dropdown. By not doing so, he was being deliberately deceptive.

[RCRochester]

Originally Posted by Vilya

My experience has been that while DVDs scratch easier, they tolerate them better and continue to work. Blu-rays are more scratch resistant, but when they become scratched they are much more likely to malfunction. Just my personal observations.

There's truth in this. The entire reason for the plastic scratch-resistant coating on blu-rays is due to the fact that scratches affect their playback more than DVDs because the readable info is closer to the surface.

[darkness2918]

Originally Posted by Vilya

My experience has been that while DVDs scratch easier, they tolerate them better and continue to work. Blu-rays are more scratch resistant, but when they become scratched they are much more likely to malfunction. Just my personal observations.

I've had DVDs that were scratched really bad with many all around the disc still play fine & I had a BD with just 1 long but very faint scratch & it skipped.

[rocknblues81]

Yeah, I opened up a dispute to get a refund.

You can tell where someone was scratching at the label to get a sticker removed. If you look at the back of the disc at the ring area you can sort of see through the disc were scratch marks are made.

[bigdaddyhorse]

Originally Posted by rocknblues81

It got worse. When I wrote these messages the disc was still in my LG player. When I went to go get the disc out it was stuck in my player and I had to dig it out.

He is giving me shit about it. Asking why I would put it in my player knowing it had sticky residue. Well, the same reason I paid 40 dollars. This a rare item and I wanted it to work. If you see this disc up close you can see it on the disc. He says he will give a 3 dollar refund so that I can go have it resurfaced. It looks like I'm going to have to fight to get my money back.

That sucks dude. You should ask him why he would sell you a disc with sticky residue on it (assuming it wasn't mentioned in ebay listing, I just looked at the pictures before).

Originally Posted by TripleHBK

Or that he himself just didn't like the stickers. I pull any rental ring stickers off immediately upon purchase whenever any of my films have them as well, so while it's possible he was attempting to be sneaky, it's also possible he was just trying to clean up/restore the disc to something closer to retail.

I tried that with first couple ex-rents I bought from Family Video, but had no luck and didn't want to cover the disc in goo-gone, so I just leave em now. Haven't had one affect playback so far (knocks on wood). Those things are just too sticky and come off in tiny pieces and layers, if at all. If you got some sweet trick for those nasty things, please share.

[rocknblues81]

[quote=bigdaddyhorse;14807915]That sucks dude. You should ask him why he would sell you a disc with sticky residue on it (assuming it wasn't mentioned in ebay listing, I just looked at the pictures before).

New message from: jc747661 (954Purple Star)
If u seen something sticky or whatever why put it in your player bc there's was nothing sticky on it at all that's why

So, basically he denied it was on there.

[The Batman Professor]

Love that response. Makes Bill from Code Red read like Shakespeare.

[rocknblues81]

Originally Posted by The Batman Professor

Love that response. Makes Bill from Code Red read like Shakespeare.

I realize that I'm no wiz or grammar king, but all of his responses are that way.

[The Batman Professor]

Hey, you used a comma! You just made the top 10% as far as I’m concerned.

[glennstl]

[quote=rocknblues81;14807939]

Originally Posted by bigdaddyhorse

That sucks dude. You should ask him why he would sell you a disc with sticky residue on it (assuming it wasn't mentioned in ebay listing, I just looked at the pictures before).




So, basically he denied it was on there.

Wow...yeah that is just ridiculous. Hopefully with you opening a case against him, you get a full refund.

EBay is great 95% of the time from my experiences...and then you have this guy. Hope they t all works out for you.

[bigshot]

The sticky stuff won't clean off with rubbing alcohol?

[GasmaskAvenger]

Originally Posted by DukeTogo84

I had bought Vampires from Twilight Time recently and the sucker skipped which was really annoying.

Should've got the Indicator version of Vampires.

[PuppetMasterBlu]

Originally Posted by GasmaskAvenger

Should've got the Indicator version of Vampires.

But oddly enough avoid the Indicator of Wolf. Looks worse for some reason.

[PuppetMasterBlu]

Originally Posted by rocknblues81

Well, my copy arrived today...

Good news: It doesn't appear to be a bootleg. The special features play fine.

Bad news: The damn thing skips. I tried it on my PS4 and one of my LG blu ray players and it had skipping issues at different parts. On PS4 the disc had issues when Flyboy tries to enter the TV studio and when they're in the the elevator shaft. On my LG player it skips when Roger is being attacked by the the female zombie. It skips right at the moment Peter shoots the female zombie.

The disc has scuff marks on it. I'd say it's between good and acceptable condition. There is a sticky ring around the outter side of the disc. As if there was a rental sticker or something that was removed.

ugh.

Just file a claim on Ebay. They will take your side no problem.

[rocknblues81]

Originally Posted by PuppetMasterBlu

Just file a claim on Ebay. They will take your side no problem.

I've filed a claim. No more responses from the seller as of today. It looks like he is going to postpone the inevitable.

[hanshotfirst1138]

Originally Posted by The Batman Professor

Hey, you used a comma! You just made the top 10% as far as I’m concerned.

[Greensleeves]

Originally Posted by TarPot1

I don't have my Anchor Bay dvd box set to hand as I'm at work.

But I'm thinking this is a DVD from the Ultimate Edition box-set.

Caveat Emptor, indeed. This seller didn't even bother to conceal the alleged "BD's" catalog number (DV12167-1) clearly sourcing it to the U.E. set, which, as we all know, is a DVD-only release. What a lazy turd!

I agree with TripleHBK's suspicion that this is probably also a bootleg. Which format is anyone's guess. Whoever bought it got ganked, big time.

[GuruAskew]

I think it’s a legit disc, someone out there just swapped the disc in their UE. This is the leftovers combined. Makes sense to throw the undesired DVD disc in the undesired packaging. It’s not cool to try to sell it off that way though.

I know a lot of people did this with stuff when WHV had that disc upgrade program, people upgrading their Superman DVD tins etc.