[H-GEN] surplus blank Cd's (selling cheap)+life of cd burners?

[Tony Bilbrough]

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G'day Mat,
Most interesting, this thing with cd's failing to burn.
I use a SCSI made by Sony [bought circa '96].

Around the end of last year I bought one of those 'Sanyo' drums of
blanks from Kmart and all worked - no failures, at all.

4 months later I went back to the same shop, bought the same type of
blank cd's and...........
I tried 5 and got 5 fails.

So I took the drum back, got a full refund, and bought a BASF drum
instead. 
No worries - all 7 attempts worked.

So you might have to consider it a faulty batch, which will make them a
bit hard to 'on sell'!

I really do not know comparative prices between shops that refund, and
those that don't, but ............

PS
I too hope that Mr Brand reconsiders his leaving the Humbug lists.
His explanations were always carefully made and understandable. I will
miss his considered input.

Tony B


Matthew wrote:

> I recently purchased 100 blank cd's that for some reason simply will not
> burn on my Acer cdrw 8x4x32.
> (100% fail at even the slowest burn rate, 3 other types of CD blanks
> have 100% success rate on the above cd burner.)


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