![]() But let's compare the process of returning them. ![]() In both cases, the boxes hadn't been packaged properly and the books arrived crumpled and torn. Now the two books, they came one apiece from Amazon and Barnes & Noble. Sony will have to eat about $100 on that. The second defect was more costly: The Cellar Door Sessions 1970, a six-disc boxed set, arrived with a duplicate Disc 5 in place of Disc 6. You never know how those things will degrade. The plastic coating on top of the disc was warped it played fine, but I returned it anyway. The first defect was a simple pressing error. Defects tend to happen to independent labels, because they seek cheap reproduction. Most people buy CDs from major labels and obviously, when Sony manufactures 200,000 Dave Matthews CDs, they avoid making mistakes. Ninety percent of the time, when someone claims their CD is defective, it's not either the CD or their player needs to be cleaned, or they're lying because they want a refund. ![]() After spending a few years working in a record store, I can tell you that manufacturing defects are rare. Across four different shipments, two CDs arrived defective and two books were damaged in transit. Spending the various gift certificates I received for Christmas, I ran into a string of bad luck. ![]()
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