Sold someone a copy of Ninja Gaiden, and they mailed me back this afternoon complaning about the game not running on their box due to scratches and dirty disc error. Although I know about the scratches (as they're all in one spot and are too light to hurt the loading on my own box anyway), I wanted to know about the dde. That's usually a hard drive thing, isn't it?
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Ebayer complaining about a purchase
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crawlingpeter
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While it might have something to do with the hard drive, theyre probably called dirty DISC errors for a reason, eh?belgurdo said:
DavidDayton said:
I usually do but I didn't bother this particular time because the game's not so ridiculously scratched that it couldn't be played. (After all, If a nicked-to-hell copy of Vice City runs like it's factory sealed on my machine, then I have no doubts that a barely played NG with four nicks on it would either.) I told 'em to try it on a different Box and I'd refund them if it happened again (when I got the game back from them, of course)
toohectic said:
I dont, if im looking around and i see "lightly scratched" on an auction, i get images of the seller going at the CD with a knitting needle. If it doesnt affect playing the game, and you are prepared to refund it if it doesnt work, then theres no need to mention it.
Well, I'll be sure to keep an eye out for your auctions then...in order to avoid them...
Seriously, though...how on earth are your games getting so scratched? Almost all of my games are 99% perfect. I mean, I can grab any Dreamcast launch game from my collection and it will be flawless. What do you do with your discs?
Honestly, not including that information is a very dis-honest thing to do and would seriously piss me off. While this is a little more extreme, a friend of mine purchased a copy of Klonoa on eBay. The seller claimed the disc was in good condition...but that's it. When he recieved it, there was no manual and the disc had a massive Hollywood Video sticker plastered over the top of it. Sure, the disc wasn't scratched...but the package was total shit. The seller totally failed to mention any of this.
Oh well, I generally avoid eBay altogether for this reason. Most people just don't take care of their stuff, so I don't trust any of the sellers.
dark10x said:Well, I'll be sure to keep an eye out for your auctions then...in order to avoid them...
Seriously, though...how on earth are your games getting so scratched? Almost all of my games are 99% perfect. I mean, I can grab any Dreamcast launch game from my collection and it will be flawless. What do you do with your discs?
Honestly, not including that information is a very dis-honest thing to do and would seriously piss me off. While this is a little more extreme, a friend of mine purchased a copy of Klonoa on eBay. The seller claimed the disc was in good condition...but that's it. When he recieved it, there was no manual and the disc had a massive Hollywood Video sticker plastered over the top of it. Sure, the disc wasn't scratched...but the package was total shit. The seller totally failed to mention any of this.
Oh well, I generally avoid eBay altogether for this reason. Most people just don't take care of their stuff, so I don't trust any of the sellers.
Usually I just sit my discs on my desk since they don't move around much and I switch games a lot. They get a lot of surface scratches but nothing that makes the game unplayable or increases load times. I've never gotten a complaint yet until now so I guess most people aren't too picky when the game is cheap (plus like I mentioned the game had like three or four surface scratches in one spot, but the game ran fine anyway when I tested it prior to shipping-hence the "good." Otherwise I would have said the disc was flawless if there was nothing on it, or I wouldn't have sold it at all if it didn't work.) And don't try to paint me as some kind of dishonest pirate or something because the game didn't work and I had one bad deal. Shit happens, and it's not like I'm sitting here scouring pawn shops for loose discs or burning .iso files and then printing covers off the net and selling then as "near mint" copies
Baron Aloha
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NotMSRP said:
This is true. But also the collectors out there share some of the responsibility. Whenever I buy games on eBay I always email the seller to get an exact discription of the item if I feel that they have left something out. Typical questions include:
1. Is the photograph in the auction representative of the game that I will receive? In other words, the photograph shows that it is a non-greatest hits copy. It's non-greatest hits right?
You'd be surprised how many times people will respond with "actually it's the GH version".
2. For any games with card board boxes I ask: "What is the condition of the box?" "Are there any creases, tears, jagged edges, etc?" I ask the same about intructions.
Of course I also ask about the condition of the disc as well.
I just seems to me that if you are serious about collecting you need to do a little work and ask the seller questions before you purchase the item. I know that my standards are ridiculously high when it comes to the condition of the games that I buy. Therefore I don't expect the seller to have the same standards that I do and I'm not about to hold them to my admittedly ridiculous standards. Of course if I buy a game and it's loaded with scratches, it's a GH, and the instructions are torn (even after I specifically asked about them)... well then there will be a problem.
I'm not going to get into the morality part of this discussion, but light scratches on the disc have nothing to do with him getting a dirty disc error. I had a first run XBox and could not play Ninja Gaiden for the life of me. It would lock up within Ryu's first few steps. A DVD disc cleaner let me piece together the game for an hour or so at a time, but the only real solution is a new DVD drive or a new XBox.