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monkeybard ([personal profile] monkeybard) wrote2011-08-12 04:13 pm
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Thank goodness for massage!

Wednesday, I got the BBC Sherlock blu-rays that I ordered last week. Yesterday evening, I went to watch them. ... Blank. Yup. Both discs had the 2|e / BBC intro and then nada. Completely blank. Fail! However, I'd had a (long over-due) massage just yesterday afternoon so instead of breaking something (like the world record for longest string of obscenities), I processed the amazon.com return (I couldn't exchange for whatever reason.), took it to the UPS Store to drop off, and walked over to the big Barnes & Noble where the nice man in the media dept. became my hero by selling me a new blu-ray copy of BBC Sherlock. I was not going to wait for Amazon to ship me another, reordered copy without any guarantee that it would be a better copy than the first one. The discs from B&N a) have different packaging inside, b) have different intro graphics, et al, and most importantly c) WORK. (At least, the first one does, as I watched the first ep last night. I'll be watching the rest over the course of the weekend.) That's right. I'd rather pay full price at a brick-and-mortar store than wait for a second, potentially-just-as-useless-as-the-first-copy new copy.

So, yay me, yay massage, and yay BBC Sherlock!
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[identity profile] ryalin1.livejournal.com 2011-08-12 11:47 pm (UTC)(link)
Hope the effects of the massage last. When you watch the last 5 minutes of the 3rd ep, you're really going to want to throw something. :)
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[personal profile] monkeybard 2011-08-13 12:13 am (UTC)(link)
Oh I've seen them all. Watched 'em on KCTS online when they aired on PBS. The end of ep 3 is downright silly, IMO. I see many ways out of the end of that ep. Curious to know what one they go with.

[identity profile] write-light.livejournal.com 2011-08-13 12:09 am (UTC)(link)
Was that Amazon one a cheap knockoff from a reseller? There are some shady ones out there.
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[personal profile] monkeybard 2011-08-13 12:14 am (UTC)(link)
Could've been. Could have just been a bad printing. As long as they reimburse my Visa, I don't care. I have what I need from another retailer. Amazon can kiss my ass.

[identity profile] write-light.livejournal.com 2011-08-13 12:53 am (UTC)(link)
I'm rather in that mood too, but for different reasons - they refuse to calculate and collect sales taxes on CA residents and have not only sued to end the new law but started a ballot initiative to stop the new law. AND cut off their CA affiliates in retaliation. I'm sick of them. All my recent purchases I've gotten elsewhere.
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