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OK, how does the Christmas Vacation ebay guy do it???

I was excited to see this soundtrack existed, then in doing typical research I see the guy's been selling it for a number of years. Claims to have taken a bunch of copies from Magic Mountain five years ago, but there are numerous claims of Cd-r by customers during those five years.

So my question....how is he able to stay on there? Even a smart booter would switch names, but he's managed to stear clear of trouble from Warner Bros.??? How???

, September 18, 2004; 3:26 PM

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Simple. Because E-Bay drags their feet enforcing their own rules when they are making money off the auctions. If you don't believe me, contact E-Bay yourself and report the guy---they respond with a blah-blah "We'll look into it" e-mail, but the guy will still be there next week selling the same thing.

, September 23, 2004; 7:38 AM


But couldn't someone contact Warner Bros. or something?

Any soundtrack with dialogue samples should be suspicious to a buyer. They're either accepting of it or are disappointed after they get it.

, September 22, 2004; 11:39 AM


Apparantly, soundtrack had some issues with its release in 1999 because some songwriters did not agree, something about royalty issues! Sounds like everybody is being scammed even so called "authentic"soundtracks...should never have been released.... lots of unanswered questions about the whole thing.... but will keep checking.... for there are always ways to find out information on just about anything! Warner Bros apparantly canceled all contracts relating to this soundtrack with producing company and Mgc. Mtn.

, January 8, 2005; 10:00 PM


Apparently, distributing a high demand CD like that via magic mtn with a very limited number of serialized apressings (20,000) was something WB did not realize would turn into what it has. It has created a boot leg heaven since the bootleggers just use a CD burner, and a scanner and adobe photoshop to change the serial number to whatever they like and sell thousands of illegal copies on ebay and amazon for up to $125 a pop!! WB would have been wiser (and richer) to press their own CD's in mass quantities and sell them at regular price via regular outlets. If you can buy a legitimate CD at a retail store for 13.99 because it's readily available, bootleggers aren't going to try to compete with it (or at least not at the profit margin the this bootleg CD-R is bringing!)

, January 20, 2005; 7:03 PM

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