Several years ago I bought a copy of "Song of the South" on ebay for $60. No obi but I don't generally worry about those as I am more interested in whatever info is on the disc.

A few weeks after the disc arrived safe and sound I received a package containing two unlabeled burned cds - which turned out to contain some wretched easy listening music collection. It came from South Florida and I only know one person from that area who said she didn't send it.

Then I got a totally incomprehensible (really so to the point I could not follow it at all) rambling email from the seller of "Song of the South" along with a refund). I emailed the seller back and said I didn't want the refund since I was happy with the disc (and I had left positive feedback already). Never heard back at all.

I did look into the sale a bit more closely and saw that the seller (by the seller name I suspect she was a woman) was located in South Florida - I didn't keep the address from the ld but I suspect she also sent me the cds.

I have no explanation at all except that the seller was likely undergoing some mental distress. Very odd.

I've been sent:
vinyl LPs inside laserdisc jackets
laserdiscs inside vinyl jackets
laserdisc sleeves with no disc inside at all
a sleeve that had been totally submerged in seawater
a warped disc that was so bad it was 1 inch off when placed on a flat surface
a disc that had so much glue overspill it had stuck to the jacket because the owner had removed the inner sleeve
many CDs, DVDs with completely random music/films on them
fridge magnets
posters
test laserdiscs from some laserdisc factory

I bought my copy of Star Wars Definitive Edition from a man in a car park for £30...probably my oddest LD buying story.

i had not one but two separate instances of local junk shop owners claiming they had an LD player and discs on hand... just to find that they were both CED collections.

though i did attempt to inform them both what exactly it was they actually had there, neither of them really seemed to care...

I had an old codger antique store owner insist near to the point of violence that the average US LD of Spartacus was actually some kind of limited edition LP of the soundtrack. I said, "sir, no this is a laserdisc, see it looks like a big CD." He was not having it.

This is a little off topic, but:

Sometime ago I bought an LD player off E-bay (I think it was a CLD-D406). Well, it arrived, I unpacked it and set it up for testing. I pressed the button to eject the drawer and was surprised to find an LD in the drawer well. Even more surprising was the title of the LD: "Saturday Night p0rn". It was definitely not my taste in movies. Needess to say, the LD was discarded.

This would probably be mine . . .

Laserdisc Wars at the Flea Market

I bought a CLD-925 which was on sale with 25 or so disks; the vendor wouldn't sell it separately and I had a quick look through the pile and I didn't own more than a couple so I didn't argue. Got them home and started looking through, and suddenly realised that the biggest box - which I'd thought was a boxed collection of Elvis movies - was actually a collection of CDs in an LP sized box, the CD version of this. Ended up selling it for about 2/3rds as much as I'd estimated as the value of the whole stack of laserdiscs, which pleased me considerably.

I havent had any wierd experience, but maybe its coz I only buy from real sellers that know what they doing. I dont buy any ld players that need to be shipped either, that is like running with a 1000-dollar bill in your hand in mexico and expect not to be robbed.

Bought a MUSE copy of "Chaplin" off eBay many years ago, from a Japanese seller with a bad description. He had two copies, & I tried to get both, but he wouldn't accept a postal order. I sent cash for one disc, & he said it never arrived, so I spent a considerable effort convincing him he could so cash an IPMO, & eventually got one of the copies that way.

I recently purchased another CLD-704 on Craigslist and the guy wouldn't reply to me but would reply to me. That's right. I guess he didn't like one of my emails so I emailed him to purchase from another one and the sale went through. Yes, the guy was weird.

One more.....I recently purchased quite a few LaserDiscs recently at a local retro video shop. I brought them to the counter and another nosy customer asked me "what are you going to do with all those records". I told her I'm going to play them on my phonograph through my turn wheel. She said, "Oh, that'll be great. I like records too". Yes, she was super weird too.

"wierd" says the guy with a bunch of old worthless laserdiscs! lol.

Arent we all wierd. But misstake lds for records are rather common if you ask me.

Ha. Yes we are. There's more to her than that though. That's the short version of her following me around the store. Lol

chick asking you about discs was she a hottie?
you should have asked her to go home with you so you can show her your collection and maybe some more if you know what i mean........................
then you could have initiated her into the LD cult!

Haha. She was far from being a hottie. Quite the other end of the spectrum. I paid and got out quick. lol

I Was in a store in manchester last year that sold old books, records, p0rn mags, collectables etc... Asked the guy at the desk if they had any laserdiscs. From behind where he was sitting he found a small stack of LDs and some CEDs which must of been there for years. He said they didn't put them out because of course no one would be interested in them. I looked through; one or two karaokediscs, a kids film and a copy of Bram Stokers Dracula without a Cover.

He seemed to think the CEDs were the laserdiscs and the LDs were nothing of no interest to me so the conversation kept going back to the CEDs. There was a copy of Taxi Driver and a copy of Forbidden Planet. Another guy who worked there kept telling the the first guy that FD was worth £60! He was't listening and tried to sell it for something like 5-10. When he did hear the other guy he suddenly tried to offer me 20 or 25 for it! I declined as i thought it was too much either way and wasn't really interested in CEDs. (Looked it up on ebay later and it sells for only afew pounds)

I asked about Taxi Driver and was offered £5. I actually considered it but in the end declined and decided I didn't want anything. They seemed quite pissed off that I didn't buy anything.

Not so much a weird experience but purchased the Tron boxset off a guy on ebay and since he did combined postaged took a cheap copy of the adams family films. In the boxset and in the sleeve he had put a hand drawn cartoon style sketch of Tron throwing his disc and one of Morticia Adams. Thought it was a really nice touch and the artwork was very good. Been meaning to buy more from this seller to try and get more sketches.

Just from that description, I know what store you mean I think - Empire Exchange by chance?

Very, very weird place. If you speak to the bloke with long hair and glasses, he certainly has some very "interesting" stories.

Place does hold firm in my heart though. The fella there fixed my first laserdisc player - a cranky Pioneer CLD-1750 -about 14 years ago. The tray wouldn't open. Charged me a tenner, and he fixed it. Bless him.

I remember at the time he fixed it he showed me a few discs he had for sale. PAL releases of Basic Instinct, Terminator 2, and Taxi Driver.

About eight years ago, I asked if they had any discs and they brought out the same three discs. From your account, looks like they still have one of them!