Wednesday, January 14, 2009

An Inconvenient Truth

So that Sticks and Stones record I bought the other day is driving me crazy. I was only able to buy it because I was sent a second chance offer on e-bay. They sent it to me like an hour after I lost the auction, which kind of makes me nervous, because yesterday I read the fine print on the offer. It says, "second chance offers are sent because the winning bidder couldn't pay or the seller has a duplicate." In any other setting this wouldn't be a problem, but since it's vital I get a red copy, which was what the auction was for (i'm pretty sure), it is a problem. New Found Glory pressed 2,000 copys of Sticks and Stones total but they numbered each one on the back, it's not like normal records where the band does all the records seperate when numbering. The first 200 are blue, the next 100 are red, and the final 1700 are white according to the research I did before bidding. This is a problem because if the company I bought it from had another copy, it could be any number, not the one that was in the original auction. It makes me even more uneasy because they sent me the second chance offer so quickly, usually it takes over 48 hours for them to know 100% that the winning bidder isn't going to pay. I really hope they just cancelled his bid or he said he couldn't pay because I need the record in the original auction. If not, I hope they have a return policy.

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