YEE HAW!!!

[Patti Feinberg]

I


just


bought


THE WHOLE SERIES!!!!


Patti

[dom]

Good for you, Patti! I wish I had it on DVD. For now on I'm coming straight to you with all my questions, lol. 

[dom]

Did it come in the coffin presentation?

[Mysterious Benefactor]

Excellent, Patti!! 

[Gothick]

Just parking this link here--it may come in handy.  Hope it proves to be irrelevant to your purchase.  Congratulations!

http://www.collinsporthistoricalsociety.com/2014/04/warning-bootleg-dark-shadows-boxed-sets.html

Best,

G.

[Mysterious Benefactor]

Thanks for passing that along, Gothick, because a few topics for very suspicious offers for the boxed set have been posted over the years. One was even eventually shown to be comprised of copies of the eps made from the Sct-Fi showings!    How they thought they could get away with THAT is too hard to even fathom!!

[Patti Feinberg]

Oh man, I hope it's legit.

(It does read 2nd edition, or something; it says it DOESN'T come w/signed postcard from J. Frid).

But, it mentions 'white ribbon' to hold it open? (In the coffin dom.)

It's never been opened (still in shrink); and, the seller is in USA.

"Of all the gin joints in all the world..." or, in my case, WHY HASN'T IT GONE THROUGH? COMPLETELY OCDing about this; ebay lists it as I bought it, PayPal lists it as I've bought it, but ANY other time, I'd have gotten an email on my gmail account, and, it would've shown on my bank. (Again, completely OCDing.)

I have NEVER seen DS from ep 1-122X.

I'M GONNA FIND WALDO, aka HARVEY KEITEL.

I'm going to savor the 'extras'.

(What you don't know....when I buy a TV series, which I love to own, I'll watch it just a little at a time, until the next season.) Actually, the only one I can say that I've done this is "True Detective". I wouldn't let myself get to the last 2-3 eps of the first season until I purchased it on Amazon.

Thanks for this venting....expect installments.

BTW, how would I know BEFORE I open it, if it were a 'phony'? Any tell-tale signs?

Patti

[Gothick]

Hi Patti, there's a video link in the post above that is supposed to show what the fake set looked like when the guy unwrapped it.

One thing that it is always advisable to do is to test drive at least five of the discs, randomly chosen from around the set.  It will be blatantly obvious if the episodes are from the Sci Fi broadcasts because the quality will be poor and you will see the logo in the corner of the screen.  I think the article details some other telltale signs of a forged set.

I hope it is above board and, above all, that your discs arrive on schedule!  I think eBay has a protocol for reporting malpractice--the eBay version of the Better Business Bureau that we used to have long ago. 

Best wishes,

Steve

[dom]

Yeah, what Gothick said, Patti! You don't even have to unwrap it to know it's bogus! Unmless the crook upgraded his game. Got my fingers crossed for ya!

[Patti Feinberg]

I definitely listened to warnings here, and watched the link.

So, I went on to my ebay, and just asked the seller, WHO ACCEPTED MY MONEY 4 DAYS AGO.

(I clicked on the 'send chat to my email'). This is the exact copy of what I asked:

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Can you please tell me the barcode# on the back?

I'm hearing that 'shrink wrapped' sets are counterfeits.

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So, I go to work, and at 2:30, wonder if he's working on a weekend.

HE CANCELED MY ORDER.

Then, I had the delight of attempting to contact a person at ebay (odds are comparable to winning the Pick 4 lottery in your state).

It got escalated because I was $F$(*(^& LIVID.

With good reason. This was not a bid; he had NINE for sale (hmmm).

So, I was attempting to tell the senior rep that the $$$ wouldn't be back in my checking account until like Mon-Tues (weekend), when, thank God, she said it went back into my PayPal account. (There was another ONE which I had seen, about $20 more than the first, which, now was $35 more.)

So, I don't care what it is, as long as it's the whole series.

I was outraged, sad, mad, gloomy, bitchy, sad, sad, sad, sad, and probably other things.

I'm semi-holding my breath until IF the other one comes.

Patti


dom is a prophet


PS...so, this new guy accepted my offer...what if he decides no??? If someone accepts your money for a good or service, don't they NEED to have my okay to decline? It's not like I was talking back & forth with him, I clicked on the Buy Now. How come he gets to accept, take my money, then, since I dared to have a brain & ask, just dump me???? ebay said they'll put a mark on him.....seriously though, he was in US, don't I have rights?

[Gothick]

I think you had a lucky escape.  Apart from the fact that the goods are bootlegs, according to some of the reports, there are usually a few defective discs (which might skip or refuse to play properly).  That can be really frustrating when you're looking forward to a specific episode and it turns out you don't really have what you thought you had.

The cheapest I've ever heard anyone getting a for-real coffin set for is around $190 I think.  They're currently selling for around $399 on Amazon.

Good luck!

G.

[Patti Feinberg]

I have been simultaneously walking on eggshells and holding my breath.

I just got an email from ebay.....MY ORDER HAS SHIPPED


 
 
 


get it?

got it?

GOOD!!!

Patti

[Patti Feinberg]

I just bought THE WHOLE SERIES!!

Cluster F*ck Cluster F*ck Cluster F*ck Cluster F*ck

Cluster F*ck Cluster F*ck Cluster F*ck

Cluster F*ck Cluster F*ck

ClusterF*ck ClusterF*ck ClusterF*ck ClusterF*ck

cLuStEr F*Ck ClUsTeR f*Ck cLuStEr F*Ck ClUsTeR f*cK

I couldn't wait to get home from work, to go completely insane......

[dom]

You must be VERY tired.

Does this mean that it arrived?

[Patti Feinberg]

No dom, generally speaking, if someone rants cluster f*ck, it means problem, upon problem, upon PROBLEM.

Patti