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I agree, but if its said in such obscure way probably there is a reson for that... or maybe I'm getting too much eBaynoiac ...but still, why someone would say "THIS IS THE ENTIRE CD IN ITS FULL LENGTH FORM" - like you can get half-cd, or cd with only 30 minutes on it (like audio tape recorded only at one side), is this an usual English expression (English is not my first language, sorry) I'm just blabbering here out of curiousity anyway, sorry about that...

But as I recall antan7 had listed Finland as his residence on eBay... and there are several major US powersellers that sell predominantly Russian licenses/boots and unless you are aware (determine what they sell from looking at their inventory), or specifically ask, you probably going to get some Russian CDs sooner or later if you buy from Ebay often. Here is a US based powerseller (flexteam2003) who has 100% feedback and yet sells ONLY Russian pressings for $6.95 (both licensed and bootlegs). I know for sure as I have asked him questions about several of his auctions and he had the courtecy of admiting they are Russian pressings. Also he hosts his pictures at http://russianshanson.com/ which is a private site belonging to a Russian person living in Los Angeles (according to http://russianshanson.com/me.htm - written in Russian). If this is not enough, just ask yourself who could afford selling MAJOR BRAND NEW releases for $6.95 and yet making profit? And that Venom 2-on-1 with AAARRG Records logo blew my mind - the funniest bootleg i've ever seen

Hey ashen my friend, if you love Galaxy you probably have to check RED SQUARE (Krasnaia Ploschad). I'd also recommend BTR - "Bending the Rules" 1993, as they are very similar to Galaxy vocalwise, but it is very tough one to obtain and was released on MC only as far as I know. I'll rip a tune or two and will post them in the music section of this forum for everyone interested.

Thisi s a citation from his auction description: HERES YER CHANCE TO GRAB YOUR COPY .THIS IS THE ENTIRE CD IN ITS FULL LENGTH FORM . THIS SPECIFIC COPY OF THE CD IS IN PERFECT SHAPE NO SCRATCHES AND NO SKIPS. GET IT NOW. I kinda get a bit nervous when someone talks about "entirety" and "specific copies" of such rare products, as it could have double meaning, justifying if you receive CD-R, or other alternate pressing...

Yeah, I agree with you here. I got only two negs so far - one was from UK buyer who paid for US domestic shipping and when I refunded his payment so he can submit a new corrected one, he left negative! The other one was from a dork who accused me after never receiving his money order...

I wouldnt take this for an excuse if I was you - he could have easily contacted you using eBay contact feature, or a web-based e-mail address, or even call you on the phone if he has to. I've heard so many lame excuses on eBay, and so far no one have lived up to their promises, not a single person, go figure! Plus, if you have paid on December 13-04 and wait another two weeks you will cross the deadline and wont be able to request PayPal refund in my opinion. It is your call though. I wouldnt leave neg now (you always can do this at a later stage up to 90 days), but definitely would file with PayPal right away.

There is some problem with Canadian customs recently. I heard that for security reasons they started returning all mail without full sender AND recipient names written on the package, why they would insist on that - beats me! I got problem too, as a Canadian buyer recently proclaimed he never got his package from me, and it was sent airmail 27 days ago. That was my first problem with Canadian buyer ever. Could this problem be because of evergroving popularity of americans purchasing cheap medicines from canadian online pharmacies? I dont know... that would sucks though BTW, your seller is registered user again, so you still may have some chance of receiving your purchase, good luck!

I agree with you about TV rips and I'd gladly buy "Blue Summer" if I ever see it on homemade VCD/DVDs for sale (not sure if it was aired in USA at all, though). My comment about the guy was he stretched arm and leg presenting all those super-rare CDs as real deal, but got kicked just because was a bit too greedy and tried sneaking obvious bootleg stuff inbetween. Quite silly in my opinion, if this was indeed the case why he got NLaRU-ed at first place, of course.

I'm told by a friend that mooninitesrawk got NLaRU-ed shorly after relisting the homemade DVD bootlegs of the TV shows he was selling earlier (Remington Steele, You Can't do that on Television, etc.), and probably MTM or another VeRO copyholder pulled the plug on him. Very amateurish way to screw himself I'd say, hehe (if that's what really happened)

Thanks for the clarification. I never questioned PJ or koogles, just somehow asusmed those two accounts are PJs and got very puzzled seeing both bidding on same auction . I appologize if I offended anyone.

I think a lot of people got excited about that Sgt. Roxx Cd. I see that even PJ tried his luck on it too, and almost won it for $137... I'm a bit puzzled, though, as I always thought both www-kissmydisc-com & endangeredcds are his own aliases, but both were bidding on that auction, huh? Maybe I misunderstood and they are different persons? http://offer.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?Vie...item=4062633991

I bet you can ask him about particular title and he gladly wuill put it on for you EDIT: I went ahead and asked him for American Angel - s/t CD, let's see what happens

I bet my 2 cents a lot of people are going to receive CDr's, if anything . If you really drooling over some of the CDs, the best bet in my opinion would be to inquire if he/she accepts GayPal and pay using CC. GayPal is very seller unfriendly, but offers good buyer's protection and one would be able to get their money back, or can initiate CC chargeback as last resort. In any case it would be tedious, but you can get your money back if screwed.

Haha, tell me about it! I have set a trade with Jurgen [one of the hangloose co-owners] more than 2 months ago and still waiting to hearing on the final details from him and he was the one who hunted me down on the trade, so go figure...

I told you. I'm through talking for this Galaxy CDs though - надоело мне! I tried to explain everything about it, but despite all efforts people went elsewhere and ignored my item Beats me. Maybe they dont know Avgust as they werent released on CDs as you said, who knows. It is their loss, though, Avgust are very classy Christian hard-rock, in the same league with Galaxy, Gorky Park, Krasnaia Ploschad, etc. I have then for sale on LP, but not many people are much into vinyl anymore I guess... Maybe I should rip them off on CDr and trade them for original cheapo CDs as someone else was doing here, hehe The good news are that Avgust are back together again, and hopefully they will re-release their first two albums on CD, and have new one in development already. There are some new audio samples on their official site - go check them out, sounds very good imo. Black Coffee should be popular - solid Christian (or should I say Orthodoxal) hard-rock, similar to AC/DC and Heaven to name a few. Not exactly my cup of tea, but worth checking out, at least first several releases from the mid 80es... I have big bunch Russian CDs waiting to be put on my site, but I carry mostly the more extreme side of Russian metal: heavy to black (Ashen Light included). There are some very classy slavic sympho-pagan bands like Arkona & Pagan Reign, and a great euro-power metal from Kazakhstan of all places, very similar to Aria and Iron Maiden

I agree to that 101% It is labels/copyholder's responsibilities to sign for eBay's VeRO program and boot out all these auctions!

/me shrugs - Russians can cheat on basket, table tennis, or curling, I can't care less about it. Since I moved to live in USA I feel badly cheated by US sport channels in general, they are very ignorant, never show events live or in their entirety, and treat the viewer as coplete idiot. I pay like $80/month to Comcast for my bloody cable and all I can see on it is PBR bullshitting and endless celebrity bassfishing and elkhunting! Where are my wintersports,? FIS skiing? Hell, they even screwed the hockey season this time around in their evergrowing profit lust! what's next? NASCAR pay-per-view? In this specific topic, however, I honestly dont see how Russians cheated you "in the open market" - the majority of the CDs in question are licensed and the Russian companies paid the proper fees on them. The problem here is that cerain greedy cellers stretch their arm and leg to import them, AND misrepresent them on eBay as the original releases - that's the problem! You have to blame the approprite party in the process, that's all I ment in my previous posting. After blasting such posting I feel oblidged saying I'm NOT Russian, or affiliate to them in any way. I just usedto live in Moscow for 2 years as teenager and know they are just the same people as everybody else. I've also lived in US for 3 years now and can make comparison and tell here are some pretty crappy things here too, so lets not judge so easily before walking in someone's shoes first, at least for awhile.

WOW man , I believe if you think for a second you will see there isnt really connection between those two topics. It is not the Russians that cheats you on eBay, but the greedy eBay sellers NOT reporting what they sell to you. As far as I can see both discussed sellers in question here are an American and Finnish... and I'm sure they both know exactly what they are selling, and how/from where they got it imported... The proper topic should be "the capitalist bosses trying to make living on communist production"

That's corrct, many of the AGAT and almost all "Monsters of Rock" etc. 2-on-1 series are not marked in any way, but nevertheless all are booties. I've seen some of those in Bulgaria retailing for between $2.50 up to $5, they have street merchants offering those to the public all over the place, go figure what part of $2.50 retail price go for licensing fees

Yeah, I noticed that seller already! He has like 10,000 CDs for sale, wow, beats even vegasmetal! I've noticed he carries Russian bands (Arida Vortex, Conquest), plus I was interested in his Living Death 85 CD, but if you pay close attention to the artwork scan you can see that the sticker on it is written in cyrillic, so this one definitely is Russian (licensed or not). and all those funky HUGE CD SETs with 2-on-1 like Judas, Queen, Alice Copper, Krokus, Kiss, Ozzy, purple, etc. for $9.99 - those are bound to be booties man! The famous AGAT 2-on-1 boots, or "Monsters of Rock" or whatever else Russian "company", they have plenty . Plus he has Cemetary - Evil Shades of Gray CD 1992, which is very rare OOP and sells instantly for $30+ if you can find it, and he has 9 avaialbe for $9.99 "buy it now" in his store - go figure if they are the original Black Mark releases or not

Who was the seller and what releases are we talking about?

There are metal sellers with vast clean feedback out there, so its not entirely to the "metalhead" buyers for Dave's negatives I guess I agree with you that Dave is a cool guy in person, but he is very unorganized and unfortunately its always a gamble ordering from him.

I believe Art Music doesnt have to do anything with this. It is all 3-rd Russian parties that buy from them legally within Russia and then export in bulk to the eBay powersellers elsewhere. For instance if you go to the official Irond, or Soyuz websites you cannot purchase their licensed CDs outside the designated region and they wont even bother reply to your inquiery, but there are plenty other russian online stores that gladly will ship to anyplace. MTM can at least try shutting down the sellers that repeatedly sell this stuff in bulk. It is their responsibility after all.

I believe his eBay registration recently expired, wonder if you werent the only conned customer...

Have no idea, I only reposted the info from someone's trades list, havent seen the actual products.