The Best of The Smiths etched wooden box set on eBay

[thelastofthefamous]

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&rd=1&item=300172244644&ssPageName=STRK:MESE:IT&ih=020

 

[Not Right in the Head]

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&rd=1&item=300172244644&ssPageName=STRK:MESE:IT&ih=020

So you made these, or you know who did?

 

[beau]

Some enterprising distributor somewhere.

 

[Not Right in the Head]

Some enterprising distributor somewhere.

Dunno. Both the user and the eBay member are in Fairfax, VA. Seems too coincidental. I remember seeing boxes like this in ~1995 for Tori Amos's CDs, selling for $50 or so, and clearly unofficial. Cool, though.

 

[thelastofthefamous]

No, I did not make these. Yes, I am the seller. I believe these sets surfaced in the mid 90's. I actually can't even remember if I got these off of ebay myself or from another collector met thru moz-solo or elsewhere. They were actually sold at Best Buy back then. And they have popped up on ebay every now & then. I have no knowledge as to whether or not these were officially released by the record company. I probably would be inclined not to believe so, but the fact they were sold in a major retail store certainly could make them having been officially released a possibility. There must be someone on this site with a big nose who knows more about these?

 

[beau]

I'll say it again. Some distributor somewhere had a bunch of these boxes made, plopped the cd's in them and voila, $50 box sets.

 

[Not Right in the Head]

Damn, good job, thelastofthefamous. Less than 2 hours to go, and already at $122.

 

[vivabob]

they were made in jail by convicts learning a trade