How to Spot a Bootleg

Vivaldi · Post by **Vivaldi** » Wed Dec 05, 2007 12:19 pm

hmm, I just bought last exile seasons one and two on ebay ( as a christmas present) and, right after I hit confirm I got this horrible feeling that it might be a bootleg. That feeling's gotten much stronger after viewing some of his other items up for sell.( Azumanga Dai-Oh seems quite obvious.) what do you guys think of this...
http://cgi.ebay.com/Last-Exile-Complete ... dZViewItem
I think I've been ripped.

Malificus · Post by **Malificus** » Wed Dec 05, 2007 12:30 pm

well, here's the legit version of that: http://www.rightstuf.com/1-800-338-6827 ... 39/4/153/0

So I'm willing to venture a guess that yes the $20 complete box set which should be selling for about $100 is a bootleg

Kariudo · Post by **Kariudo** » Wed Dec 05, 2007 2:39 pm

AFAIK, there's only 1 season of last exile
that's probably another big hint

Vivaldi · Post by **Vivaldi** » Wed Dec 05, 2007 3:02 pm

crud, now me and my brother are screwed.

but where I live it aired in two seasons of 13 episodes each. o.O can't remember how they managed it though.

BasharOfTheAges · Post by **BasharOfTheAges** » Wed Dec 05, 2007 7:07 pm

They're shipping through the U.S. postal service, so they're committing felony mail fraud - let them know you'll alert the authorities if they don't cancel the auction. Alert ebay to their auctions as well.

Shiroferetto · Post by **Shiroferetto** » Thu Jul 03, 2008 10:54 am

I bought The Perfect Collection edition of Gravitation. Is that bootleg? It was cheap, and it has some of the other hallmarks of bootleg... But I really just can't tell. FWIW, I believe I have seen The Perfect Collection editions on sale in BestBuy, but I can't recall exactly. I'll have to look at their shelves.

I know that some companies are putting out special edition series of older/favorite series, so it's kind of a fuzzy grey area.

Bitrates are lower (down from about 5k to about 2.5), and the number of disks is lower (2 instead of 4): though I have to admit that I never thought Gravitation really REQUIRED 4 disks, but... that's IMHO.

The other main difference is the PAR is 0.889 instead of 0.991, or whatever the original was.

Purchased from a****b***z.com.

Menus in English, though it does have English, Chinese, Spanish as language options. All region.

<gulp>

LivingFlame · Post by **LivingFlame** » Thu Jul 03, 2008 11:37 am

I'm about 99.4763% certain that's a bootleg.

Shiroferetto · Post by **Shiroferetto** » Thu Jul 03, 2008 5:30 pm

LivingFlame wrote:I'm about 99.4763% certain that's a bootleg.

But... but...

Damn.

I hope not. I dunno, I'll have to look at it some more. but I bet you're right. :/

The good news is that I still have my legit Fruits Basket and Noir to watch, so... One simply dislikes being taken in. At least I know what/where not to buy next time.

LivingFlame · Post by **LivingFlame** » Thu Jul 03, 2008 8:21 pm

Don't worry; a similar event happened to me a while back. It's irritating, but it's not the end of the world.

76 · Post by 76 » Fri Jul 04, 2008 2:45 am

LivingFlame wrote:I'm about 99.4763% certain that's a bootleg.

I'm only posting here because this is the first time that I've read this forum that this sticky has been posted in....yea, I know, WOW.

AND. On this particular occassion I find my name here.

^_^

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