I hate receiving broken Blu-ray cases, etc...

[Lemon Zing]

I only paid about £16 for a PS5 game as a sale was on. Netted a bargain. The thing is, I noticed the case had been damaged.

This happens a lot when I order Blu-rays on Amazon. Three recently arrived smashed, or they get broken when the courier tries to shove two in the same package through the bristles on my letterbox. Sometimes it's just a bit of plastic that comes off the interlock or push button, but then it can be the bottom of the case. Just feel like it's too much hassle as a collector to continue purchasing goods online if this is going to keep on happening.

I cannot get half of these films I buy in the UK stores at all, because they just are never made available on this region (2) for some reason. So when you are paying £40 or more for some of them, this is rather nippy...

 

[Judge]

That's one issue that really bugs me and has for many years. Just how fast the portable media industry in general figured out how to make incredibly cheap, fragile containers while keeping prices high.

Small wonder I refused to budge past DVDs.

Yet now the word is that portable media in general is fini$hed, in favor of streaming media. Something various artists are rather unhappy about for good reason.

Pretty soon nearly everything will be on a rental basis, where the consumer is robbed year-round, with nothing to show for it. Subscriptions that don't allow consumers to indefinitely enjoy rented media.

 

[Au Naturel]

I only paid about £16 for a PS5 game as a sale was on. Netted a bargain. The thing is, I noticed the case had been damaged.

This happens a lot when I order Blu-rays on Amazon. Three recently arrived smashed, or they get broken when the courier tries to shove two in the same package through the bristles on my letterbox. Sometimes it's just a bit of plastic that comes off the interlock or push button, but then it can be the bottom of the case. Just feel like it's too much hassle as a collector to continue purchasing goods online if this is going to keep on happening.

I cannot get half of these films I buy in the UK stores at all, because they just are never made available on this region (2) for some reason. So when you are paying £40 or more for some of them, this is rather nippy...

I got a lot of CDs that way, decades ago when CDs were still a thing. Sometimes, the case would break just through regular handling. I bought a bunch of empty CD cases to transfer the contents over.

 

[MNAus]

I don't think I had a single CD case without one of the following:
- the 'arm' of one or both of the hinges broken off
- the little tabs that hold the disk in place, multiple missing
- large crack across the front of the case
- A double CD case where the middle section just falls out.

They made them out of the most brittle plastic imaginable, didn't they? I know the plastic had good clarity (hence the jewel case name I suppose) but they were just a terrible design. Those arms especially: so fragile.

 

[Judge]

The really thin CD cases are a bit stronger (and cheaper), but making custom labels for them is tedious!

Crappy picture, but you get the point. Without the labels they'd be useless to me.

 

[lovely_darlingprettybaby]

I hate receiving broken or scratched cds and i hate the process of getting them returned.
Also I hate not caring about my cds and dvds and getting scratches on them.
And damaging the cases and putting them in the wrong case.
When in a hurry it can be hard not to damage them.

 

[Lemon Zing]

You can get steelbooks, but they usually cost more. Most of them will likely be special editions, with only a limited batch shipped out. But they are probably harder to break.