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BUSTED by Bill!Mr Bill said:Someone has a broken spindle in one of the Shout!Factory releases? I love to see that! Mine has nothing to "break" -- no worry about "broken teeth" on the spindle, as the hub is more or less solid, In fact I fear I'm going to break the CD every time I take it our -- it's hell getting it off that rock-solid spindle!!!
--Mr Bill
thinking maybe someone took a ball-peen hammer to your digipak and shattered the thing!
BUSTED by Bill!
Harry said:It a SIGNATURE SERIES digipak should go bad, plastic-wise, I'd peel the plastic off, toss it out, and either retrofit the rest of the package into a jewel case, or scan it and reduce it.
Harry
I'll never understand the vitriol directed at the poor, innocent jewel case.Dore Adler said:The artwork in a jewel case is always obscured and the already-tiny cover has much less impact than in a digipak.
I'm not sure I quite understand how a jewel case "obscures" anything? If you keep your jewel cases in great shape, they should look great. If you rough them up, they'll look roughed up. If you rough up the cover of the digipak, it's gonna look bad also. How does it have less impact? The size is almost identical. The signature area of Herb's disc's would look just as great in a clear spined jewel case, I.M.O.
And I won't even go into the environmental/economic arguments...
I truly don't see the sale of Herb's cd's in a jewel case breaking the delicate balance of mother earth.
I'd say if you're going to ban anything, make it jewel-cases.
Mike Blakesley said:Sorry, I have to disagree there. I work in a store which sells CDs. One of our hottest selling products is "CD wallets," in which you keep just the CD and the booklet. I have had customers bring in huge stacks of jewelboxes they were planning to throw away. They all eventually wind up in the landfill because we have no use for them except to replace the occasional cracked cover.
If Herb sells a million of these new CDs, and the digipak has 1/3 the plastic of a jewel box, that's the equivalent of 2 million jewel boxes worth of plastic that's not used. The CD wallet people may still throw the package away, but they'll be throwing away a lot less plastic.
I'd be curious to know(from your experience) if cd wallets are more popular among young or older buyers.
spanky1 said:BUSTED by Bill!
Actually, I do know what you mean. I was kidding around.Does this mean it was busted by Bill? Or that I was somehow being dishonest?
No big deal, 1 of the 5 pieces was broken out. I must admit that even with one missing, it still holds pretty well, unlike the normal spindle with a broken spline.
Michael H.
Steven J. Gross said:spanky1 said:BUSTED by Bill!
Actually, I do know what you mean. I was kidding around.Does this mean it was busted by Bill? Or that I was somehow being dishonest?
No big deal, 1 of the 5 pieces was broken out. I must admit that even with one missing, it still holds pretty well, unlike the normal spindle with a broken spline.
Michael H.
Dave said:Man, here we are one talking about the disadvantages Digi-Pak's, now it looks like Jewel-Boxes are suddenly getting a beating!
...who prefers the REAL THIN Jewel-Cases, that can hold two CD's in one spot, though ya gotta eliminate much of the booklets and sometimes cut the back in-lay card to fit; which, I do... :scared:
Dave
Harry said:Actually, I think that somewhere in carrier's lingo, "Fragile" means "drop-kick this package before delivery."
Mike Blakesley said:Actually I think the only good that comes from "FRAGILE" stickers are the profits made by the sticker company. A UPS guy told me that most damage happens during automated processing, not human handling.
TallPaul said:spanky 1 wrote:
herb does not want jewel cases for environmental reasons so the entire re-releases will be manufactured in digipaks.
That doesn't make sense because there is more paper in the Digi-Paks and its heavier paper than in the jewel cases both are shrink wrapped so you're not saving there. Unless a person took their CD and booklet out of the plastic case (which makes no sense either) I don't see it.
In the old days when Herb first issued the Tijania Brass CDs they came in a "long box" which was cardboard and was generally thrown away. I guess that is what he was thinking about.
Mike Blakesley said:First, TallPaul and spanky1, you guys need to learn the fine art of quoting.