Posted by Larry Jordan on November 7, 2014, 8:32 pm
A "review" posted on Amazon on October 31st claims that the customer's copy of the 8 CD set, "The Great Jim Reeves," would "not play on my Bose music system. After taking this set to my local record store, they told me the problem is these discs are not real CDs... Floating at around $50, this set costs way too much to not be made using real silver CDs."
He continues "What is dishonest is that nowhere in the description for this product does it indicate these are CD-R discs. My daughter in law assumed these would be real CDs. The young man at the record store took a look at these discs and said the record label who made this set must have been trying to save money by having these printed on CD-Rs instead of real CDs. The clerk explained that the discs in the set I received are CD-Rs, so they may not play on all systems.."
He goes on to recommend people buy Bear products or Sony instead.
HERE IS THE ABSOLUTE TRUTH: THE 8 CD SET, "THE GREAT JIM REEVES," AS I EXPLAINED ELSEWHERE, IS A MASS MARKET PRODUCT WITH THOUSANDS OF COPIES MANUFACTURED. IT IS **NOT** CD-Rs, **ALL** THE DISKS ARE REPLICATED, SILVER, GENUINE CDS OF THE HIGHEST PROFESSIONAL STANDARDS CREATED FROM GLASS MASTERS. Period.
It is not even cost effective to DUPLICATE that many disks.
It should be pretty obvious to anyone who has any experience handling CDs that The Great Jim Reeves set contains replicated discs. More often than not, one look at the non-label side is all it takes to recognize these.
Almost, but not quite, as obvious are duplicated discs, such as seems to be the case with "Jim Reeves And Friends" and "The Jim Reeves Show."
So, I cannot understand how a presumably experienced staff member of a record store can conclude that The Great Jim Reeves set has duplicated discs. A finicky laser pickup in that Bose system may have been the likely culprit.
Re: Correcting more false information
Posted by Larry Jordan on November 8, 2014, 5:46 am, in reply to "Re: Correcting more false information " Edited by board administrator November 8, 2014, 6:18 am
If you look at the other "reviews" this man has written, he accuses other labels of issuing CD-Rs as well, and he apparently has experienced playback problems with his equipment. He claims he took the 8 CD set, "The Great Jim Reeves" to a record store and was told by the "young man" there that we had deceptively sold him cheapo CD-Rs to save money. As someone has rhetorically asked: WHERE ARE ANY RECORD STORES THESE DAYS? I haven't seen one in years!
This is the same "reviewer" who attacking my book by claiming, among other falsehoods, that I am "a radical left-wing author." This will be news to my former colleagues in the Republican party, where I worked as a speechwriter and issues strategist in four Congressional campaigns when I was a younger man! In fact, I have never worked in the Democratic party, though I've met and had letters of commendation from both Republican and Democrat Presidents. Besides, there is ZERO politics in my book.
This is just another hit job, pure and simple. And as you scan down the Comments section underneath favorable reviews left underneath my various CDs and book, you will see a few people posting the same "attack" reviews word-for-word as P. Atkinson, who obviously is using multiple aliases just as a few others do who are out to hurt sales.
It just boggles the mind how many times I've asked store clerks questions, and received wrong answers! It's been a rule with me for a long time not to ask questions in stores because 99% of the time, sales clerks have absolutely no knowledge of the products they're selling! Hard to believe, maybe, but true! I'm not at all surprised that a clerk in a record store would come up with an explanation like this! Take my advice--- just because someone works in a store doesn't mean they know what they are talking about! I know this from personal experience! By the way, there are a few record stores left, but not many. There is a chain here called F.Y.E (For Your Entertainment), but they have been closing one by one for years now. I know of only two left that are close enough for me to get to. And in all of the record stores that I've gone to, the sales clerks have given me MANY wrong answers to my questions throughout the years!