Rant - Why do the both shrinkwrap and put those damned stickers on new CDs

[KitchenWitch]

My daughter got a late Consumerism Holiday gift in the mail and it was a CD. I should not have to get out the Sawzall to open a damned CD.

x(

[MrCoffee]

1. my heart is breaking for you in your time of need

seriesly.

[KitchenWitch]

3. Die!

:P

[MrCoffee]

5. i won't give you the SATISFACTION!

:rofl: and you would be satisfied, wouldn't you? sicko.

[KitchenWitch]

9. Tease!

:rofl:

[Droopy]

2. It's to keep them damn juvenile delinquents from stealing them

Don't trust anyone under 30.

[madeline_con]

25. Apparently, it's not working...

The local Wally World changed ALL 8 of their self checkouts to 10 items or less (*last straw, I no longer darken the door) because people were stealing.

They were doing innovative things like filling shoe boxes with CDs and scannning them to pay the price os a $20.00 pair of shoes. (The weight was detected on the bagging thing.)

Anyway, I hear kids at school talk about their shop lifting adventures all the time. :eyes:

[KitchenWitch]

28. I refuse to use the self checkouts because they take jobs away from real people.

[DemoTex]

4. Same reason they keep razor blades locked-up at Walgreens.

People. Will. Steal. Anything.

[RetroLounge]

6. The answer is obvious

They need you to WORK at it before you use it to separate out your seeds from your bud.

Oh, wait, that was my vinyl Double Album Skynyrd live LP...

Never mind.

RL

[KitchenWitch]

7. I used Zeppelin's Physical Graffiti for that function!

:smoke:

:rofl:

[Gormy Cuss]

8. If you were a real girly girl, you'd have ten handy slicing devices on your hands.

:P

[KitchenWitch]

10. How did you know that I am not a girly girl?

:rofl:

[FloridaJudy]

11. I lose more fingernails that way..

And I'd like to consign whoever came up with those "clamshell" plastic packages to the lowest level of Hades. It took me half an hour, a pair of utility scissors, a box cutter, three fingernails and a box of bandaids to get at my Zen nano.

Consumer reports offers the Oyster Awards each year. I'd like to nominate mine.

http://www.consumerreports.org/cro/money/shopping/shopping-tips/oyster-awards-3-07/overview/0307_oyster_ov_1.htm

[tigereye]

12. there is a special place in hell for whomever designed the packaging...

i despise that!

[leeroysphitz]

24. I realy like your avatar! NT

[tigereye]

27. yeah, just saw the film about her and really liked it...

[MrScorpio]

13. I'm pretty good at opening CDs

I run my fingernail along the hinge to cut the shrinkwrap then I bypass the sticker seal by opening up the hinged side to separate the sides of the cover.

Remove the sticker and put the hinges back together.

I can open a CD is a matter of seconds.

[KitchenWitch]

14. From now on, I am sending my CDs to you to open and you can send them back.

:D

[DarkTirade]

15. What if they do the two stickers, one on top, one on bottom?

Or is that just DVDs I'm thinking of?

I'm a bad consumer. I don't buy enough crap. :P

[KitchenWitch]

16. I have had DVDs with THREE stickers

One on top, one on the bottom and one sealing where you are supposed to be able to open it.

[DarkTirade]

17. Yeah, that's pretty common.

For those I just peel the suckers off. I do have the advantage of having ridiculously strong and sharp nails though, as well as strong agile fingers from years of playing various instruments. (ironicaly those same strong sharp nails usually get in the WAY of playing those instruments... :P )

[MrScorpio]

20. DVDs are a different animal

Whereas CDs are easy as pie, DVDs give me slight issues

[Mike03]

18. Random comment: Shrinkwrap is a carcinogen, for what it's worth.

I was just reading about this today.

[KitchenWitch]

19. Great!

Another reason to hate shrinkwrap!

:hi:

[Generic Brad]

21. The RIAA has all music on lockdown

The best way to prevent someone from illegally copying music is to prevent them from getting to it in the first place.

[DarkTirade]

23. That's also why some CDs are in the case so tight that you're afraid you might break it just getting

it out.

Because they WANT you to break it getting it out. Once they have your money they don't give a shit if you can actually use the product they sold or not.

[qb]

22. They have to do something with the indestructible plastic.

All of the cheap breakable plastic gets used in toys, household appliances, and auto parts to make sure they have to be replaced regularly. There really is no market for indestructible plastic, so it makes for really cheap packaging.

[progressforward]

26. Packaging is way too overdone. nt