An Interesting Ebay Purchase

Or, how does this kinda thing keep happening to me?

Been hitting up ebay ever since I got back from a trip to Illinois, where I picked up umpteen consoles, which I then needed games for. One of the games I been on the lookout for is Spyro: the Dragon, for the Playstation. Back in the day, I'd hang out at my friend Dennis's house; when all I had was a NES, he had NES, SNES, Playstation; all the cool stuff. I got to play WipeoutXL (which, looking back, really turned me onto racing games), Wing Commander, and Spyro the Dragon. For anyone who hasn't played or seen spyro, it's a 3d platformer, along the lines of Mario64. Real colorful, kid friendly, but not stupid simple. Good game.

Anyway, while in Illinois, I picked up a Playstation, along with some games. And by some games, I mean Tomb Raider, Gex, and 3 or 4 years worth of various EA Games crap. So, I really needed some good games (not that tomb Raider ain't good, but I just finished playing Tomb Raider Anniversary on the 360), so I hit up RacketBoy's retrogaming site, and looked at his list of PS1 must play games, and the second I saw Spyro listed, I decided I must have it. Off to Ebay...


To make a long story short, I discover that Insomniac games had released Spyro, along with it's two (even better) sequels, as a Collector's Set. Found it on Ebay, and won the auciton for $20 shipped. Got the games in yesterday, and we (finally) get to the point of this post.


Open the package, take the games out, and do a quick inspection. Take the first game, open the case n look over the disc. A bit scuffed, but not bad for a 11 year old game cd. Take the second game, and notice on the case that it says "2 CD". "Hmmm", I think. Didn't know it was two cds. Open it up, take out the first cd, looks ok. Turn over the cd holder to where the 2nd cd is, except... no 2nd cd. After several expletive deleteds, I go ahead and check the 3rd cd, already composing in my head the letter I'm gonna send the bastard, for not even warning me that he only had 1 cd of the 2nd game. Wasn't gonna be totally angry, it coulda been an honest mistake, but still... Then I'm remembering the auction details, how it said "3 out of 3 cds", but also saying "Complete set"... I put everything away, head back to work, pull up ebay, and start to send him a message. As I'm writing, I do some quick research, because in everything I'd seen so far, I hadn't seen anything saying Spyro 2 was 2 cds. Somewhere in all this thinking, I think about the first cd, how it didn't actually _SAY_ cd1, or cd2 for that matter. Then how the bit that says "2CD" was on the case, not on the cover booklet or any of the game material. Then it hits me. The guy must've replaced the original cd case, with a double cd case. Spyro 2 ain't 2 cds. I may have blanked out for a moment, as my brain tries to realign itself.


And the sad thing? This kinda thing happens to me _ALL_ the time. Why???