I
have close to 2000 Legit & Rare CD's for trade.
CLICK
HERE to see my entire list.
If you want something,
or care to offer me something,
please feel free to email
me and we will work something out.
Email me at
BobbyShred@aol.com
The best way to get me
to trade is to send me your list.
I
primarily like to trade for Legit store bought discs.
Everyday I get asked to
trade and inevitably people will offer me only 5, 10 select CD's. Please
try get a list together before you ask for a trade.
There are other ways we
could trade, but having a list, a legit CD list, is the best way to get
me interested.
Trading
Guidelines
Trading with me is easy.
I'm not so anal as to have 10,000 rules like some other traders. But there
are a few issues to discuss.
I use Disc At Once recording,
80 min High Quality CDR's.
I trade without jewel
cases.
If you have nice handwriting
you can write on the disc.
I don't so I'll leave
them blank.
If the discs skip I would
expect a replacement, and I will do the same for you.
If
your CD's are made from Vinyl LP's or MP3's please let me know first, I
may not want them.
I
personally can't understand how after 100 years of recording some are now
using the technology to go backwards in terms of quality with MP3.
I usually use high quality
CD-R's like Ritek Ridata discs or better. Note that Ridata branded
discs are Ritek's high end discs, and much better than the standard Ritek's.
I like branded top, or
thick matte (grained) topped discs.
Maxell, Verbatim, Imitation,
TDK, Ridata's, etc.
I don't like plain shiny
silver topped discs or Memorex discs.
I've had more problems
with Memorex discs than with any other brand.
Many times you can't
even rip from them.
In my opinion, Memorex
always made crap cassettes that dropped out constantly. Their CD-R's
seem to be carrying on that tradition.
I know many people use
them, but I don't think they are very good.
Click
Here to see how many bad ratings they get on their recordable DVD's.
| Shiny silver topped discs
like these are simply too thin, and offer little protection for the data
on the top of the disc.
Many people don't realize
the disc information is just underside the top of the disc, not
the bottom of the disc.
If you can hold up a disc
to a light and see through it, the disc is crap. Sometimes you can
even see pinholes in the disc. |
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This makes shiny silver
top discs very susceptible to being scratched, and the music on them unplayable.
I know this, because it's happened to me.
Silver topped discs with
some grain to them generally have protective coating on the top, which
makes them ok.
A scratch on the top
of
a disc can destroy the reflectivity of the metal in that area, and the
readability of the data by the laser. This type of damage cannot
be repaired.
With scratches on the
bottom, the laser-reading side, optical disc drives are usually able to
read through minor damage easily. Sometimes bottom scratches
can even be "sanded out". If the scratch is on the top there's
nothing you can do, and the disc is ruined.
Plain shiny silver topped
discs are crap.
This leads me into another
subject:
Disc
Labeling
I've been trading CD's
and DVD's for a good while now.
I used to make nice fancy
stick on labels and put them on the discs. They look great.
I'm now finding out from
many traders that they don't use stick on labels anymore.
The problem is now 3,
4 years later some of these labeled discs don't play, or rip correctly.
Those pretty stick on labels can easily unbalance a disc.
They can also start to
peel, and fray and cause problems.
This is especially true
with DVD discs that hold much more data, and are therefore more sensitive
to these problems.
I have actually began
to reburn some of these discs because I fear the ones with labels may be
unplayable in the future.
I began to notice unlabelled
discs would always rip at 25X yet some labeled discs would only rip at
10X, some discs will only rip at 2X.
That tells me that labeling
may not have been such a good idea.
Since the actual data
is stored on the top of the CD, not the bottom putting a label on the top
of the disc is asking for trouble. Especially if the disc is one of those
thin, silver topped disc.
So it's just my personal
advice not to use stick on labels, or thin topped discs.
You might be sorry you
did a few years down the line.
I just use a marker on
the top of the disc. Let's hope a few years down the line the ink
doesn't start leaking through the tops!
I
will trade 3 CD's for one of my rare DVD's also.
If you would like to trade
for DVD's please visit my
Concert Video Trading
Page:
BobbyShred's
Concert DVD and VHS
Video
Trading Page
I have almost 2000 Legit
& Rare CD's for trading.
CLICK
HERE to see my entire list.
If you want something,
or care to offer me something,
please feel free to email
me and we will work something out.
Email me at
BobbyShred@aol.com
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