If I get a flat screen monitor and the package arrives and I open it up six months later and all there is, is the box and the manual, you better believe I'm gonna give hell to get the actual product.
Why the hell would anyone wait that long to open a package?
Maybe it was a back up meant to be used when the one you have fails.
Maybe it was a Christmas or birthday gift you bought a month in advance and it sat there, maybe even wrapped up (do some stores, like Sears, still offering gift wrapping?).
Perhaps it's something you are meaning to use, but not right away, so it sits there.
The better question is: why the hell would anybody be forced to open something immediately and if the product is not there, be denied a reasonable request to get wha they paid for?
An angel has stepped forward and offered to replace my missing CD.
The cue celebrant has arrived! A heartwarming and celestial vocal rendition of an instrumental (sax lead) heard in the officer's club when the door is opened at the beginning of The Thing From Another World:
I'm relieved to see others have the same dilemma I have. CDs come in, but I'm too tired, or too engaged in other pursuits, to get to them right away. And then, suddenly, months have passed and the stack has grown.
I log in every CD before I play it. The last time I had logged anything into my database was mid-October, which doesn't feel like very long ago.
So I decided to catch up over the weekend.
As I said: LESSON LEARNED.
Every CD WILL be opened upon receipt (except those extras I buy during sales).
I'm so glad you started this thread, Ron, and so glad the mystery guest stepped forward to get you a replacement!
Oddly, I just loaded the new Omen into iTunes yesterday afternoon, so that was timely. And I had a stack of CDs waiting for me at the office this morning, and took the time to open every one and check the discs. Good reminder.
And as to those who cannot believe some of us collect more than we deal with immediately, I have a simple response:
Dahling, after the first 10,000 or so, the bloom is off the rose!
You guys are funny with the unopened cds...to this day, I get excited when a package arrives, and always take the 2-10 mins. to open everything, scan the liner notes for good info (and make sure the local, reviled beatnik I cannot stand did NOT write them), and I guess, now, make sure the bloody disc is in there. Really, is every one THAT busy they can't take a couple minutes to check out their prize??
