Subj : Highly profitable
To   : Ogg
From : Nightfox
Date : Tue Jul 19 2022 10:02 am

 Re: "Highly profitable" Bay Street Video store n Toronto thrives
 By: Ogg to Nightfox on Mon Jul 18 2022 09:49 pm

N>> [..] Years ago, I bought a CD from a pawn shop [..] I took
N>> the CD back to the store where I bought it, and they took
N>> the CD out of the case and brought me another copy of the
N>> CD they had and put it in the same case and gave that back
N>> to me. For some reason I thought that seemed a bit sketchy
N>> at the time, but I guess in the end I still ended up with a
N>> good copy of the CD album along with its case and the
N>> booklet in the case.

Og> Why sketchy? Did you get a home-burned CD-R version? It would
Og> be very easy to tell the difference between a commercial CD and
Og> a CD-R.

It was a commercially produced copy.  I guess it seemed sketchy because they seemed to have other copies of the CD by itself (without the case) that they could give to customers to replace the one they had bought..  For a pawn shop, I wouldn't have expected that at the time, I guess.

Nightfox

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