Re: [Videolib] shady website?

2015-02-23 Thread Sarah E. McCleskey
To: videolib@lists.berkeley.edu Subject: Re: [Videolib] shady website? Um yes. Two rules of thumb if a website/company you never heard of has major films not available on sites like Amazon or Midwest Tape it is a scam also a site where you don't see any box art ( though some scam sites have scam ones

Re: [Videolib] shady website?

2015-02-23 Thread Jessica Rosner
Um yes. Two rules of thumb if a website/company you never heard of has major films not available on sites like Amazon or Midwest Tape it is a scam also a site where you don't see any box art ( though some scam sites have scam ones) and almost every title is the same price is a scam. There must be

Re: [Videolib] shady website?

2015-02-23 Thread Hugh Davis
Just from a semantic standpoint, I would say the site is shady (it is selling DVDs of films which have not had commercial releases, at least not beyond now out-of-print VHS) but not necessarily a scam. It reminds me of some of the things you could once find on ioffer and ebay (both of which have

[Videolib] shady website?

2015-02-23 Thread Sarah E. McCleskey
Can the CW confirm for me that this is a shady website with bootlegs? www.lostmoviesfound.comhttp://www.lostmoviesfound.com Thanks. Sarah Sarah E. McCleskey Head of Access Services, Film and Media 112 Axinn Library 123 Hofstra University Hempstead, NY 11549 516-463-5076

Re: [Videolib] shady website?

2015-02-23 Thread Hugh Davis
@lists.berkeley.edu *Subject:* Re: [Videolib] shady website? Um yes. Two rules of thumb if a website/company you never heard of has major films not available on sites like Amazon or Midwest Tape it is a scam also a site where you don't see any box art ( though some scam sites have scam ones) and almost every

Re: [Videolib] shady website?

2015-02-23 Thread Jessica Rosner
:* Monday, February 23, 2015 10:28 AM *To:* videolib@lists.berkeley.edu *Subject:* Re: [Videolib] shady website? Um yes. Two rules of thumb if a website/company you never heard of has major films not available on sites like Amazon or Midwest Tape it is a scam also a site where you don't see any

Re: [Videolib] shady website?

2015-02-23 Thread Hugh Davis
Fair enough, and I don't mean to open any cans of worms, but the term just hit me as one I'd use differently. On Mon, Feb 23, 2015 at 11:09 AM, Dennis Doros milefi...@gmail.com wrote: scam [skam] to cheat or defraud with a scam. Yes, I think there is hair splitting here. My semantics - a

Re: [Videolib] shady website?

2015-02-23 Thread Dennis Doros
scam [skam] to cheat or defraud with a scam. Yes, I think there is hair splitting here. My semantics - a scam is posing as an honest business selling bootleg films illegally as quality product to the public. If the seller was on the street corner selling fake Prada bags for $200, I would think