recently we've found many FAKE "JAPAN CD" sold online, on some FAMOUS online shopping-sites outside Japan.
Please don't forget to confirm
1/ if the BAR-CODE (aka JAN CODE in Japan) really exist for the CD.
** we checked more than 100 items, and most of those bar-codes were for DIFFERENT items, and other bar-codes do NOT exist in Japan.
2/ if the packages, inserts and the disc's looking are good enough.
** we checked some "BOOTLEG" copies.
Small characters on OBIs and/or INSERTS are not clear if they are BOOTLEGS.
3/ if the TITLE really exist.
One of the most typical BOOTLEG sold all around the world is THE BEATLES' albums from SONY RECORDS JAPAN.
Please remember that SONY RECORDS have NEVER released any Beatles albums in these 55 years in Japan.
4/ if the CATALOG NUMBER really exist for the CD.
We found many BOOTLEGS which are sold as "JAPAN (JAPANESE) MINI LP CD" etc.
For example, we saw "JAPANESE MINI LP CD" with a catalog number "AP-8016".
This catalog number was for a compilation LP, "OLDIES" released from Toshiba EMI Japan in the 1980s, and the same catalog numbers are NEVER given for different kind of format in Japan. Therefore, it can be found that the MINI LP CD is a BOOTLEG.
In some meanings, it is NOT a lie. On those products, Japanese characters are printed on, and they are in so-called MINI LP CD (miniature CD / CD-sized replica of LP) shapes.
But, those shops/sellers never write that they are BOOTLEGs.
We cannot confirm if those sellers/shops are vicious or if they are just ignorant about it, but the buyers must have bought without considering if they were buying BOOTLEGs.
It's not only a matter of laws but a matter of the items' quality.
Their sounds may be just a copy from another "existent" CDs, and/or the paper-sleeves can be printed with a simple printer.
To collect CDs, buyers should know if they are buying RARE ones, OFFICIAL ones and/or BOOTLEG.
Of course, we also know that some bootlegs have enough worth music for collectors, and we are not talking about those ones.
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*/ introducing links to our ebay STORE
(there you can choose ebay COM, CA, DE, IT, FR and/or more and more ebay)
*/ introducing our BLOGS and information of something about Japanese goods.
