Anyone notice the cheap black-triangle Abbey Road CDs on eBay recently?

Well, the counterfeit Abbey Road CDs are selling, but interestingly, few people are jumping at the Buy It Now prices. I've noticed that the counterfeit Living Eyes discs are not selling. I guess people are onto them since the discs have a clear plastic ring.

 

Negative feedback:

http://www.toolhaus.org/cgi-bin/negs?User=iluvkaykay&Dirn=Received+by

 

The sad thing when you review the negative feedback is how long this has been going on. iluvkaykay has negative feedback associated with bootlegs going back to February. It's amazing that eBay allows this to continue.

 

Well I received my black triangle Abbey Road CD today. I have a few other black triangle CDs and they all look pretty much the same. However, the Abbey Road CD looks like a copy a fake to me. The big giveaway is the mirror band area where the matrix code is located. It looks pretty cheesy.

I was wondering if some of you who have the actual Abbey Road black triangle would be kind of enough to do me a favor and do a couple things for me.

1. Can you e-mail me some scans of your CD, the outer cover of the booklet and the rear insert?

2. Run EAC on all the tracks and provide me with your results. I ran it against my US pressing of Abbey Road and the results do differ.

Please PM me if you are willing to do this and I will forward you my e-mail address to send the scans and EAC results.

Thanks in advance!
Jorge

 

Jorge my friend I do have have the real-deal, but a severe lack of time, a scanner that requires me to reinstall it and I don't know how to email WAV files. If no one is able to help you I will when I return from holidays.

 

Jorge, are you able to post a scan of your counterfeit disc?

 

Ah, you're a good man Joel Cairo.

 

The authentic black triangle Abbey Road uses pre-emphasis, doesn't it? Does EAC tell you if the pre-emphasis flag is enabled or not? I know it's supposed to but I don't have any CDs that would test it. If you extracted a track and played it back on your PC and it was really bright then you'd know that at least it too was encoded with pre-emphasis. Hopefully you have a copy of the real thing. It'd be nice to compare it with some clips of the real deal though.

 

Jorge, if you can post scans of yours like Kevin (Joel Cairo) did we can put this one to bed. If it is just a rip/burn of the original with the emphesis on it won't be quite as good as the real thing. This doesn't mean it will be bad.

Mine is a duplicate of Kevin's.

Kevin is yours actually not as gray, but more silver in color as it shows up here and is the back artwork not as bright like mine appears in normal house lighting, or is it just my monitor?

 

I have a number of CDs that are supposed to be encoded with pre-emphasis, including the black-triangle Abbey Road disc, and EAC has indicated that none of them are so encoded.

 

I see somebody paid $76.00 for one of those fakes...from that way2skinny guy. http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=4061385778

Man, that's criminal making a $75.00 profit on a counterfeit CD. There's gotta be something someone can do to get these guys arrested.

 

I'm still betting that eBay won't do anything. The way I see these guys being shut down is for buyers to report them to the police. Numerous arrests have been made for counterfeiters of other merchandise (baseball cards, autographs, money, clothing and accessories, etc.). These CD/DVD counterfeiters just need to be reported.

 

Maybe they need to be reported to the R.I.A.A. instead of Ebay. I mean, some people actually put in the auction descriptions that they are selling copies and not originals, and Ebay does nothing.
I'm sure it has to be a lot easier to track down these thieves on Ebay than it is to go hunting for the IP addresses of MP3 swappers.

 

I think that if they say it's a copy then at least it's 'caveat emptor'. Someone selling a copy as a 'copy' is just as guilty of copyright infringement as someone selling a copy and passing it off as the real deal, but it doesn't bother me quite as much. I feel if someone wants to pay $50 or $100 for a CDR copy then that's their problem. It is baffling that these guys can get away with selling truckloads of these fakes though, laughing all the way to the bank.

 

Yeah, same thing with both my Abbey Road and Dark Side CD's. Never understood that pre-emphesis stuff.

 

just bought 2 cd's form this guy in ma.way2skinny.beatles long+winding road japanese promo+black triangle abby road.got long+winding yesterday looks like a well done fake cd.have'nt got abby road yet but when i do will take to a buddy of mine to confirm good or bad.let you know. if fake what can be done about this guy?thanks pete

 

Pete, the only way is to cancel your credit card payment or ask for a reimbursement from your credit card co. assuming of course that you paid by credit card through Paypal, otherwise there's literally nothing you can do because obviously eBay won't help at all.

 

Thanks Dave.looks Like I'am Stuck W 2 Fake Cd's.but This Guy Still Selling Them On Ebay.the Abby Road Cd Is Up To 51.00 W 9 Bids+long+winding Road Is Still There.maybe This Guy Can Be Taken Off Ebay.merry Christmas Pete

 

I'll bet the guy has private auctions so no one will be able to warn one of the bidders that they're bidding on a fake!

 

JUST RECEIVED ABBY ROAD BLACK TRIANGLE IN MAIL TODAY FROMWAY2SKINNY.IT IS HARD TO TELL IF IT'S A FAKE OR NOT.LOOKS ALMOST BRAND NEW.NO SCRATCHES ON CASE BOOKLET BRAND NEW.IF IT'S FAKE IT'S GOOD.ON THE INNER RING IT LOOK LIKE IT HAScb32-3016 I<AI.PETE

 

How does it compare to the pictures in this message thread? Is the CD 'label' shiny and is there an even circle in the middle ring?

 

Hi Drifter.your Exactly Right Both His Cd's Are Now Private Auction.this Cd Looks To New To Be The Real Thing.case Is Unscatched Booklet Looks Brand New+cd Looks Untouched.if This Guy Says He Played It A Couple Of Times+put It Away I Dont Know.looks Like It Came Right Out Of The Store.looks To Me That The 1/4 Oval On The Top Of The Cd To The Right Of The Triangle Looks Ragged While The Bottom Oval Looks Perfect.look Like A Perfect Circle On Inner Ring+cd Looks Shiiny.also Booklet Does'nt Fit Snug In Case.thanks Pete