User blog:JoshuaJSlone/dora ts17 update

About five months back I wrote a blog post about dora_ts17, an eBay seller of among other things H!P discs. I thought I'd do an update on the situation.

On the whole, I am still a big fan. If you've looked at all at the list of discs I own as I've updated it, you'll know it's grown a lot over the last half year. During that time, 90+% of it has been from dora purchases. There have been a few mistakes made on his end, but considering how many items I've purchased and how cheap they are, it hasn't been enough to stop me coming back.

Negatives have included getting an item listed as a CD single and instead getting the Single V, I think I got a 2003 concert instead of a 2004 concert once, and the packaging can be a bit sparse--enough so that one time a package got damaged and returned to him. He repackaged the surviving items and refunded me for the one that was too damaged. Sometimes things can arrive in better than expected condition, too, though--sometimes an item that was listed as Very Good or Like New will in fact be unopened--which for me can actually be a bit of a problem. I feel like it's kind of a waste to find something that's managed to go a dozen years unopened and then do so to spend about 3 minutes ripping the disc to digital files. :)

Still, browsing through whatever items he puts up in a batch that ends ~weekly (the current one 5-6 hours from now) seems about as close as one can get to rummaging through a secondhand store. Where else am I going to find old Petit Bests, Minimoni singles, and Pinch Runner for a handful of dollars each? Truly my biggest problems right now are that I've filled the shelf I dedicated to this stuff, and also my own stupidity--since the shipping time can be pretty long, on several occasions I've ordered something, having forgotten I did the same thing three weeks ago and am still waiting for it to arrive.

[http://stores.ebay.com/Doras-Store/Hello-Project-/_i.html?rt=nc&_fsub=808434016&_sid=303057376&_sticky=1&_trksid=p4634.c0.m14&_sop=1&_sc=1 Dora's Store--Hello! Project section]. Please outbid me and save me money.

Also worth linking to the list of H!P music you can't find on US iTunes, which I compiled largely so I'd know which things were higher priority to look for physical copies of.