Buying and Selling vcd's on ebay, yahoo and ubid, etc.

[thebigguy62]

I don't exactly know how to word this, but here goes: I'm looking for feedback on people's experience buying and selling vcd's on the auction sites. I, um, know someone who sells tv episodes on ebay, with some success, and in doing this has run into some snags; ebay shuts down his auctions, and after a year he's found some equilibrium with a group of shows that nobody seems to have a problem with him selling. Now, he knows of all the copyright issues, it's not fair to the creators, so let's not start flaming about all that; his issue right now is that in looking for more titles to sell, he's found alot of people selling junk, poorly encoded sets often made with the Terapin machine, and sellers who think that if they have sold him a set well, if he doesn't like it, screw him. Is there a place where people have rated, in a measurably subjective way, the sets they've bought? Is there a way to put some kind of measure that the collector's community can agree on; pixellated videos, wrong compliancy, videotape noise at the beginning of each episode, etc.? It's really time to put a measure to the quality of the stuff folks are cranking out to civilians; anyone who makes and sells vcds and cares about quality is gonna get a really bad reputation because of the dummies out there who are putting out bad stuff.

I look forward to you kicking my ass here; try to be gentle, don't wear your steel toed boots.

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