Dillydipper
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[RANT]Seems extremely antithetical that you can't find anybody who sells lids to replace the ones that broke at the hinge. Oh sure, you can buy the whole jewel case; you can buy any configuration of the slimline cases and parts; you can get brilliant boxes, fatboys, plain digipacs, tray inserts, in grey, black or clear, or even cardboard sleeves for the cheapest solution possible.
You can even go to your used CD dealer and buy whole bulks of old CD's he's never gonna sell in a million years, just to throw away 95% of the product, and still end up paying about three times more per item that you should have to be able to.
So if indeed the lids broken at the hinge-ends that make the lid fly off when you open it are the most critical replacement part to these poorly-designed jewel boxes (and no, I do not believe the teeth in the insert trays are the most breakable, since even when they are broken, THE DISC STAYS SECURELY INSIDE THE CASE UNLESS THE HINGES ARE BROKEN!)...then why hasn't the marketplace stepped up to serve the need?
I've spent about an hour hunting these down, as I tend to do every couple of years or so, and I have only found one link to such a product. And when you get there, it says, "item discontinued".
So pardon me if I don't want to purchase a whole jewel box just to get the flimsiest part of it and discard the rest in a landfill. Excuse me if I don't want to transfer all my discs and slice up their artwork to fit slimline boxes. Mea culpa that I didn't see this coming back in 1983, and transferred my whole collection to DAT tapes when the format was more readily available.
All I want is to replace a part that breaks, and get the damn CD back into the box/shelf/drawer, then move on to the next one. Why is such an obvious need remain unfulfilled by suppliers who move mass quantities of storage supplies in every other frakkin' configuration?![/RANT]
You can even go to your used CD dealer and buy whole bulks of old CD's he's never gonna sell in a million years, just to throw away 95% of the product, and still end up paying about three times more per item that you should have to be able to.
So if indeed the lids broken at the hinge-ends that make the lid fly off when you open it are the most critical replacement part to these poorly-designed jewel boxes (and no, I do not believe the teeth in the insert trays are the most breakable, since even when they are broken, THE DISC STAYS SECURELY INSIDE THE CASE UNLESS THE HINGES ARE BROKEN!)...then why hasn't the marketplace stepped up to serve the need?
I've spent about an hour hunting these down, as I tend to do every couple of years or so, and I have only found one link to such a product. And when you get there, it says, "item discontinued".
So pardon me if I don't want to purchase a whole jewel box just to get the flimsiest part of it and discard the rest in a landfill. Excuse me if I don't want to transfer all my discs and slice up their artwork to fit slimline boxes. Mea culpa that I didn't see this coming back in 1983, and transferred my whole collection to DAT tapes when the format was more readily available.
All I want is to replace a part that breaks, and get the damn CD back into the box/shelf/drawer, then move on to the next one. Why is such an obvious need remain unfulfilled by suppliers who move mass quantities of storage supplies in every other frakkin' configuration?![/RANT]