Re: CDs that won't play

"Poldie" <Poldie@xxxxxxxxx> appears to have caused the following letters
to be typed in news:1147723114.971422.226960@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx:

Vaneyes wrote:
Poldie wrote:
Vaneyes wrote:
Steven de Mena wrote:
"Russ and/or Martha Oppenheim" <moppenheim@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in
message news:xQI9g.28598$CH2.11448@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

"Poldie" <Poldie@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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One solution would be to buy another copy in the store you
bought it, switch the disk inside for your dead one, then
return it and say it's an unwanted present and get another
disk that you actually want. If CDs are going to be sold as
lasting forever then they should.

If it's an "unwanted present" then why would the CD be opened?

I should think most stores would accept a return only if the
shrink wrap was intact.

If a CD is returned as defective, then normally wouldn't the
store only exchange it for a new copy of the same CD?

Russ (not Martha)

At Tower Records they will give you full credit for an opened
defective item (within 35 days of purchase).

That's understandable, but not the devious scenario that Poldie put
forth, and which you apparently agreed with.

And, why would someone, other than an idiot, want to put a
defective CD (disguised as an unwanted returned birthday present)
back into circulation to be someone else's problem?

You'd have to ask any retailer who would put a returned, opened item
back into circulation to become someone else's problem. It's
certainly illegal under UK law, unless it's clearly marked as such.

You'd be sharing a cell, at best.

Cool. We could meet up with the record company executives and disk
jockeys who got busted over payola and play poker together.

Throw in the executives in charge of price-fixing, the embezzlers in the
accounting departments, and the saboteurs who plant rootkits on the hard
drives of paying customers, and you can have a tournament!

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