Skyjedi2020, Gweilo, You two really need to understand this isn't a major issue and could have been cleaned off.
You just made the seller throw away 2 good discs that have sticky edges that can be cleaned easily.

Please find another hobby.

No refund no disc return where did I say that. It's not playable it has a crack in it. I have a perfect collectable cover and insert and no animated laserdisc to watch.

More than 9.99 I paid for it to return it. Perhaps I'd find a way to remove the glue if a rare title and it didn't have a crack in it. It isn't rare I can get another copy very easily without having to deal with a frisbee. I've bought hundreds of discs in the last decade and only have had to fix one or two discs and never thrown a single one away,never thought about it until now, not even severely rotted discs. They still play then I keep them even my worst Ghostbusters 3M. At some point it will no longer play.

I already told the seller and chalked it up to my loss. I do a large volume with them and up until now I get good deals from them. Why would I destroy a good thing over a single 10 dollar disc? Its worthy of a neg and I'm not going to leave them one or a neutral. Its broken and unplayable disc not as described. The likelihood of it happening again is small. I had no problems receiving discs with fingerprints and faint scratches. Discs with moldy covers not in the description. Discs with price stickers on them, discs with no OBI. Its discount obsolete media.

one bad disc out of 14. That is unwatchable that was the complaint. It's not bad curating or inventory, when they obviously never took it out the sleeve since it was made. And it was not sealed but obviously never watched either. I generally like used watched collections because I know they usually get cared well for, except for idiots who don't know how to treat their media. Sealed means nothing to me, you can have sealed broken or sealed rotten. Sealed warped. I've even saved severely scratched discs on occasion and they were like 5 dollar grab bag Disney discs that everyone throws away.

Almost no sellers do have a working laserdisc player or test discs when it comes to rotted discs. Buyer beware is what happens with this media.

I have other hobbies, thank you very much.
Finding a new sealed disc of a certain title doesn't happen everyday, when it does YOU need to act quick and snag it.
Unfortunately Cyborg was a sh1tty disc with glue all over the place and it also peeled bits of the plastic layer off the edges.
This was a manufacturers lemon as you call it in the US of A.
Do you think I should have kept it?!
I think not!
I paid a lot of dough for it, wasting money.
I'm glad I returned the disc for a voll geld zuruck.

The glue “peeled bits of the plastic layer off the edges”? What? Bits of disc or bits of inner bag?

This is why I stopped selling discs.
Not worth the risk.

The other day I received The Violinist of Hameln: Second Movement vol.3 [PCLG-00052]

This is one of my favorite “loser” shows, the kind where when airing was preempted they wouldn’t bother to reschedule it so you wouldn’t even see that episode until the LD came out. It was a mostly light hearted D&D style adventure where the characters used elemental magic based on music. The film version is mostly like this but the TV version was written by Yasuhiro Imagawa who has a way of turning whatever he’s working on into whatever he was going to do anyway. See: Giant Robo, Mazinger (2009). His version is very heavy and dark with what some people consider extensive use of stills. European classical music is very important to the show, specifically the piece and the composer will be named much like a new Transformer or killer North Star technique
…even though this doesn’t look much like earth…

This has been on my wishlist for some time. I purchased it from an LLDB seller and it’s so far the only copy to ever be sold that way. There is no US release and I don’t think fan subbers in the VHS days ever finished it. I have therefore never seen the end!

This is one of those late period LD era shows where they sold not a box set, and not a box set in halves but rather each volume was sold individually with the first volume of each half coming with the outer box for that half. When I got my set used both boxes were full of discs but it didn’t contain the last volume. Instead it had the movie in there. It took some time to find someone willing to sell me just the final volume but I found one for $10 sealed in perfect condition.

The way the show is sequenced it ended up being 25 episodes which is a small problem for LD since no matter how you slice it you’re going to end up pressing an entire disc just for an episode that takes up only half a side. This is a 78,000円 130 minute, three sided, two disc release of a TV show. More than the other volumes. I’m not sure how many TV LD series are like that. They did manage to make use of some of the extra space on the 3rd side by including no-title versions of both openings and endings as well as some old TV CM. Since the jacket is now gatefold they used that space to print some interview chat with the voice actors.

This weekend I’m home alone so I’m going to watch this and also Detonator Orgun to finish off shows I’ve been too busy/poor/forgetful/lazy to complete for literally decades.

Bits of plastic chips came off the disc edge on severeal places, disc was detoriating, it was a lemon.
Not only cars are lemons ya know?

“Lemon” is more of a legal definition than a technical one. I understand “defective” just fine but I’ve never seen a disc physically deteriorate, chips of plastic coming out like you describe, from just leaking glue. You’re using “lemon” as if it were just “cursed”.

Imagine if someone had an issue with their car where the stereo played all the radio stations in Russian or the tires leaked cheese. It’s extremely uncommon and sorta hard to believe…for glue to go from being sticky annoyance to somehow chemically shattering the disc substrate. That’s glue going off at a scale previously not known to most users who have encountered glue issues. I would wonder, if I saw something like that, if the deterioration you saw was in fact bits of bag stuck in the glue or oafish attempts to clean the glue the wrong way caused the edge to chip away. Those both sound much more likely.

You had a rare one there, too bad you didn't take pictures, I would have loved to see them.
I've had a few thousand discs through my hands and I've NEVER seen what you are talking about with chips of the disc, unless
it was cracked, and I've never seen that either.

I have seen the inner sleeve stuck to the disc and torn pieces, once cleaned you would never know it had any issues.

Added all these to my LD library

Star Wars: Special Collection Trilogy

[SF148-1343]
[SF148-1196]
[SF148-1242]

Star Wars: Trilogy PILF-2860

Star Wars: Faces Trilogy

I carefuly tried to remove glue off the disc edges with my fingernail, then all of a sudden small pieces of the plastic layer from the disc edge chipped off on several places.
Although it was a brand new disc there was no other damage to it.

I have a used disc of Japanese release of Cyborg, it's feels sticky putting it back into it's protective cover after playing the movie but nowhere near the sh1tty condition the new disc was in.
Looks like Toshiba plant had flaws in product quality when manufacturing discs?