Did you ever end up hearing back from the seller on the origin of these? All I can imagine is that they were part of some wholsale order that was forgotten about until it was found later, maybe when cleaning out a closed up shop or something.
It was convinced these were real. I did not notice that the Ghostbusters CDs were bogus until someone pointed out the error to me, in the track listings. WE GOT ONE reads on the version I got as WE GET ONE, and CROSS RIP reads as GROSS RIP - I did not notice as every other detail seemed to be accurate.
I am currently going through eBay now to get this resolved....
Some years ago I bought a counterfeit version of Varese's The Thing from a seller on Amazon. It was really well made, but the CD insert was slightly different and the CD seemed like transparent in front of a source of light. The silver layer of the CD was probably thinner.
Here are images of the Ghostbusters CD - the serial no. on the CD itself appears to match the original - hence why I was fooled - and overlooked analyzing the track names in detail.
These Ghostbusters CD's are an extremely clever and well done fakes. The BIG give away is that the jewel case is made of a thinner plastic and is not the same design or thickness as the Varese cases. I returned the item to the seller and received a refund from PayPal. I made EBay aware of the situation but they didn't seem to care and passed the buck onto Paypal.
Here are images of the Ghostbusters CD - the serial no. on the CD itself appears to match the original - hence why I was fooled - and overlooked analyzing the track names in detail.
That is a boot. I received an identical one in the post years ago (shortly after it sold out). The seller was obnoxious. When I brought it up with him that it was boot he said "you got the music, so what's the problem?".
There are also very well made boots of Transformers:The Score on eBay too which have now filtered onto Discogs. I got my money back in the end. In general if you see a seller on eBay with a large number of CDs of a rare score, you should avoid.
