Last fiasco of the year

Flippy and I decided we’d spend New Year’s Eve watching the X-Men movie.  She’s wanted to see it for years, and I gave her a box set of X-Men 1 and 2 a couple of years ago, but we’ve never gotten around to watching them.  New Year’s Eve, we decided, would definitely be our X-Men movie night.

We bought sushi, watched the end of the football game, and then got ready for our movie. I retrieved the DVD box from the cabinet in the hallway—the DVD box had never even been opened, so I removed the cellophane wrapper.  I took out the folded disc holder, opened it, and… all the discs were missing.  There had been four discs total in the box, but they’d all been removed, and the box had been re-shrink-wrapped to look as it if was new.  From looking at the box, though, I could see where a couple of old stickers had been removed, but those spots weren’t visible when the box was wrapped.  I know I bought the set on eBay (far too long ago to try to get a refund!), and I don’t think the seller (who sold the set as “new") was to blame—I’m sure someone sold the seller the package.  I never buy from anyone with bad feedback if I can avoid it, and there’s no point in someone doing this intentionally to gain $15.  A thief would have just taken my money and not sent anything.

We were able to watch two episodes of Wonderfalls, instead, so the evening wasn’t entirely a bust.  Still, lesson learned:  when you buy a movie or DVD, open the package when it arrives, and not three years later!

Posted by Leigh-Ann on 12/31 at 12:26 AM

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