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Yer Ol' Uncle D said:
First off, thanks for originally sharing this deal with us.

I had to go thru 3 layers of chat personnel to finally get an OK, I'll help you with replacement.

I fully expect to receive CDs again.
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I'm happy to report back that my CDs were replaced with another set of CDs and why can't this billionaire Neil Armstrong wannabe JUST SEND US THE SHIT WE ORDERED???

I'm working another angle and have set that plan in motion. I'll share if it is successful. I'll vent some more in 26 point caps if it is not.
 
Yer Ol' Uncle D said:
I'm happy to report back that my CDs were replaced with another set of CDs and why can't this billionaire Neil Armstrong wannabe JUST SEND US THE SHIT WE ORDERED???

I'm working another angle and have set that plan in motion. I'll share if it is successful. I'll vent some more in 26 point caps if it is not.
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Are you ordering the cds to see if you get the vinyl?
 
Melt Face Molly Drop said:
So I was the one that grabbed this. What came was the correct jacket, a nice gatefold tip-on, but inside was disc 1 of a recent pressing of Coltrane’s My Favorite Things. I send it back.

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This has become an increasingly frustrating scam people have been doing with Amazon. They have an album with a damaged record but a nice sleeve. Order a new version of the album, swap the record out with some other random record they have doubles of and return it back for a refund. Then it goes to Amazon warehouse without checking the record and they send it out to some unsuspecting customer
 
MikeH said:
This has become an increasingly frustrating scam people have been doing with Amazon. They have an album with a damaged record but a nice sleeve. Order a new version of the album, swap the record out with some other random record they have doubles of and return it back for a refund. Then it goes to Amazon warehouse without checking the record and they send it out to some unsuspecting customer
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Why don't they send back the damaged record?
 
I should be getting my third one today, if it's the CDs again I'm probably just going to give up and enjoy the new CD life. Such an insane runaround.

And the severely overworked warehouse folks aren't checking anything tbh, the replace-the-record scam or just sending back something entirely different and having it get scanned in is common.
 
MikeH said:
It’s usually something they don’t buy from Amazon originally. I’ve gotten “new” reissues of albums from warehouse that have a scratched up dollar bin of the same album inside
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Right, I understand generally what they're doing. This specific instance puzzles me though. Why would someone buy a Neil Young record from amazon, then return a recent Coltrane record in that mint Neil Young cover to amazon? If they kept the Neil Young record, then how are they storing it now, in the cover from that Coltrane record, or a generic cover? Or if they had an older/damaged Neil Young record they were replacing, why not just return that older/damaged record?
 
dansomeone said:
Right, I understand generally what they're doing. This specific instance puzzles me though. Why would someone buy a Neil Young record from amazon, then return a recent Coltrane record in that mint Neil Young cover to amazon? If they kept the Neil Young record, then how are they storing it now, in the cover from that Coltrane record, or a generic cover? Or if they had an older/damaged Neil Young record they were replacing, why not just return that older/damaged record?
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I think the idea is if they do a wholesale swap out, all it takes it for anyone in the chain to look at it, realize it's fraudulent, and deny the return. If they use the correct sleeve with an errant disc, the UPS Store or Amazon worker needs to actually look at the disc. Much less likely to be caught. They also may scan them back in at some point (hypothetically) and an old busted sleeve may not have a barcode to use.

(Edit: I suspect the more common scenario is that someone has a beat up junker of a copy of Album X, buys a new version, and swaps out the junky one for the new on and returns it - damaged sleeve or disc or both - the full different record swap is riskier for sure - though I have had a couple that were just way off)
 
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waruv said:
I think the idea is if they do a wholesale swap out, all it takes it for anyone in the chain to look at it, realize it's fraudulent, and deny the return. If they use the correct sleeve with an errant disc, the UPS Store or Amazon worker needs to actually look at the disc. Much less likely to be caught. They also may scan them back in at some point (hypothetically) and an old busted sleeve may not have a barcode to use.

(Edit: I suspect the more common scenario is that someone has a beat up junker of a copy of Album X, buys a new version, and swaps out the junky one for the new on and returns it - damaged sleeve or disc or both - the full different record swap is riskier for sure - though I have had a couple that were just way off)
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Right, here, the "errant disc" returned in the correct sleeve is a completely unrelated Coltrane record, which was clearly not noted by Amazon. I get all of this. I just don't get why someone would go to this trouble without at a minimum returning the same title on vinyl, either an older version or the same but damaged version.

If this was an intentional switch, now this person has a new Neil Young record, no sleeve, and a Coltrane sleeve, no record. Maybe they also have an old/damaged Neil Young record and sleeve. But if that's the case, why not keep the Coltrane record and sent back the old/damaged Neil record in the new sleeve to Amazon, like @MikeH described. I just think it's an odd mystery.

Edit: perhaps (1) the original buyer actually received a Coltrane record in a new Neil sleeve, returned it, and Amazon just slapped it back on the shelf, or (2) the original buyer had a Neil sleeve only, and wanted the record too
 
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waruv said:
I should be getting my third one today, if it's the CDs again I'm probably just going to give up and enjoy the new CD life. Such an insane runaround.

And the severely overworked warehouse folks aren't checking anything tbh, the replace-the-record scam or just sending back something entirely different and having it get scanned in is common.
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have you considered putting in some neil young CDs in there and returning it and seeing what you get next time
 
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