Wow, these eBay bootlegs are getting fancier. The DVD box set I got in the mail today looks exactly like the real thing, right down to the special plastic slipcase. Except it’s missing the informational booklet and the collectible trinket, the discs holders aren’t double-sided but rather two discs on one side, the DVDs themselves are DVD-5s, and there’s an ISBN on the packaging.
Entertainment DVDs generally don’t get ISBNs. Oh, and it’s apparently a non-existent number that doesn’t appear to correspond to any real product.
Anyone know what the eBay/Paypal policy is on refunding such purchases? The product was presented as legit.
I know, I know, never buy DVDs on eBay 'cos chances are they’re fake. But this one actually looked like the real thing!
VSys114
3643
It is, but to facilitate self-fellatio.
Strato I have an IBM Aptiva keyboard that probably 15 years old, weighs like 3 pounds, and has those clicky keys and a PS2 plug. Like it.
Raife
3644
I wasn’t aware Cher had a penis. I guess that explains Sonny.
Thoro
3645
shudder
The memories. The memories!
Man, I so wanted an Aptiva back in the day. Don’t ask me why; I don’t know. Maybe it’s simply because this is an IBM town.
It was right up there on my list of most lusted-after gear, right alongside the Mac TV.
We were no match for their untamed wit.
I want to keep reading Angie’s AAR but that thread is just too embarassing to load up and read in the lobby of the physics building.
Yet another underwhelming Cobb salad.
Raife
3650
Mihara wouldn’t let something like that stop him.
Argh, car’s completely exoleated (devoid of oil), and I don’t know why. There was an acrid odor driving home, and a light on the dash flashed a couple times, but too quickly for me to see what it was. Closer to home, it flashed once more, while I was watching the dash, and, sure enough, it was the oil light.
Now there’s a trail of oil leading into the garage, and a good deal of the under-the-hood area is coated in 10W-30. Goddammit.
Looks like I’m in the market for a new car (read: used but in good condition) after all. It doesn’t make sense to pour a couple thousand (if it turns out to be that much) into a dying old Volvo when you could put that toward a down payment on something newer and less prone to developing costly problems.
VSys114
3653
In the same boat here. Recently lost a 1991 Toyota SR5 coupe with 340,000 miles on it to shrapnel in the gear box. Loved that car, but another $1,500 in repairs was just not in the cards for the blue dart.
kerzain
3654
I couple years ago I paid $1000 to replace the timing chain in a '94 Toyota pickup I own. It has about 140k on it, and I justified it with the whole ‘devil you know’ line of thinking. I’m not planning to replace the vehicle till I can do it right and just buy new. I’ve been shit on enough in my life buying used, kinda sick of it. I don’t like inheriting other people’s problems, and standard vehicle inspectors always seem to miss the one crucial problem just outside their scope of interest.
Well, the mechanic says there’s a chance it’s just the rear cam seal, which is just a $3 part. Hopefully that’s the case.
I’m sorry to be the one to break this to you, but you can’t really call a salad ‘eating light’ if you pour three take-out cups of blue cheese dressing on it and order it with two sides of fries, a side of onion rings and an appetizer of buffalo wings.
No, but you can call it eating delicious!
Random Star Trek-induced thought: What kind of birth control will they have in the 24th century? I say: penis-sized shield generators.
Great. Now all I can hear is someone saying “All power to forward thrusters” and I feel absolutely filthy. I hope you’re happy, Rubin!
snooty British voice Ecstatic, sir.
