Machina II UK 4 cd set on eBay

[Arthur]

http://cgi.ebay.nl/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?Vie … 0141006492

Far from mint condition, if you ask me…

[amnesia]

yeah, but its still goin to sell for a high price.200, 300 bucks, maybe ?

[Cool As Ice Cream]

Not necessarily. I’ve seen some of these go for $150-175. (And they looked better than this set.)

[blueczarina]

those would be cooler if they were less grubby i like to keep all of my CDs to be clean.

[Cool As Ice Cream]

when i’m sad, i like to lick my rarest cds. so yeah, fingerprints are gross!

just kidding.

haha, this reminds me, once i was at a second hand record store and one of the customers suddenly started licking a record he just took out of the sleeve.
the lady of the store said: \"hey, stop that! you’ve been doing this before and other customers have been complaining about it. it’s gross. and why would you lick it in the first place?!? and you’ve never bought anything here. you just come in to lick records and scare away people.\"
and he said: \"i know what you’re doing! you’re treating the records with product, so they look shinier than they really are. i can taste it!\"
and the lady said: \"hell no, why would we do that? get the fuck out!\"
and then he went out of the store. true story.

[blueczarina]

WTF?

[Cool As Ice Cream]

my thoughts exactly.

[blueczarina]

that is pretty retarded. people can be so weird.

[Cool As Ice Cream]

i had forgotten about this lovely story until today. i just ignored it at the time, because it was so awkward.

[blueczarina]

it is pretty awkward, especially seeing it. i wouldn’t know what to say.

[manillascissor]

when i’m sad, i like to lick my rarest cds. so yeah, fingerprints are gross!

just kidding.

haha, this reminds me, once i was at a second hand record store and one of the customers suddenly started licking a record he just took out of the sleeve.
the lady of the store said: "hey, stop that! you’ve been doing this before and other customers have been complaining about it. it’s gross. and why would you lick it in the first place?!? and you’ve never bought anything here. you just come in to lick records and scare away people."
and he said: "i know what you’re doing! you’re treating the records with product, so they look shinier than they really are. i can taste it!"
and the lady said: "hell no, why would we do that? get the fuck out!"
and then he went out of the store. true story.[/quote:z8gm1oae]

best post in awhile.

[Pipoka]

that story is really unbelivable!

[Anonymous]

wow, that’s quite the story. How awkward, did you laugh a little at the time?

[Thom]

That was me. And they WERE using a product to make the records shinier!!!

[blueczarina]

were they at least tasty Thom?

[Cool As Ice Cream]

wow, that’s quite the story. How awkward, did you laugh a little at the time?[/quote:1aey12ex]
Yes, I giggled quietly.

[tiny]

Those smudges I believe are ink smudges, not caused by water or anything else. I believe they were caused during printing or soon after before the ink had dried.

I say this as a few of my UK CDR acetate pumpkins promo’s have a similar markings and the ink appears to have been smudged either by the print head or placing the copies on top of each other before they had dried.

[Thom]

I also have a few like that, smudged ink too. That said you can see some ring wear and other stuff going on here too.

[Cool As Ice Cream]

Do you think it’s ink? I thought it was toner. (From a laser printer, instead of a inkjet printer.)

I think it’s normal that toner starts sticking to the plastic after a while. (In this case it has nothing to do with putting the inserts in the plastic sleeves while the ink is still wet. It just happens after a while.)

[Tion]

i still need this for my collection, but the pics look so grubby

[Arthur]

I also have a few like that, smudged ink too. That said you can see some ring wear and other stuff going on here too.[/quote:29cmwkaq]
One can see clearly on the top right cd that the ink/toner marks have been caused by inserting the inner paper in at least 2 ways. The Virgin logo is copied onto the plastic sleeve on the top right while the ink/toner was not dry yet. For the rest it’s mainly some wrinkles in the paper, so the whole set looks OK to me. Not by any means "mint" but just OK. Still worthwhile buying I guess.

And the seller is rather honest about it too, as you probably noticed.

"The 3 eps have a few light marks,excellent to excellent+ condition.The album has some marks,plays fine,excellent- to excellent condition.The sleeves have a few grubby fingerprints but excellent+ condition"

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