Topic: Is there a way to get my money back if I bought a bootleg DVD?

[Urusei0Yatsura]

I bought Trigun from Otaku Castle, it was region free, had no licensor logos, had no age rating and had 26 episodes on one disc. I recently bought a genuine one from Amazon and it was completely different, it was spread across 8 discs, was region 2 and had the licensors logo on it. So I was wondering if there was some way I could get my money back, if they ask me to return it I will not be able to because I have lost the bootleg one.

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I bought Trigun from Otaku Castle, it was region free, had no licensor logos, had no age rating and had 26 episodes on one disc. I recently bought a genuine one from Amazon and it was completely different, it was spread across 8 discs, was region 2 and had the licensors logo on it. So I was wondering if there was some way I could get my money back, if they ask me to return it I will not be able to because I have lost the bootleg one.

When i lived in Asia I found that bootlegs were all that was available. I generally paid about $2 per DVD. There is no reason a legitimate copy can't have more episodes on one disk, it's just greed from the publishers to sell more disks.
Anyway I don't think Amazon will let you return a DVD once you watch it.

[Urusei0Yatsura]

I bought the bootleg from Otaku Castle, I later bought a genuine one from Amazon. The reason why they limit the amount of episodes per disc is not because they want to sell more discs but because the bootlegs are compressed.

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Have you checked out the file size of an episode on an official UY disc?
SD Video is not all that big.

[Urusei0Yatsura]

I've read from numerous sources that anime distribution companies never put more than 5 episodes on a disc. I know its not official because it is different from the official one. I've tried sending them an email saying its a bootleg but they just ignored it. I read on a support page that said if you think something is a bootleg you should inform the seller, if they don't reply then you should inform the distributor.

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It's all about the money. They don't need to put 12 eps per disc when they can sell you 5 eps for the same money.
As far as reporting bootleg discs call the FBI, they love that sort of thing. They even have a toll free # for you to report stuff.
It's only 1 disc, I'd write it off as a life lesson and never buy from that company ever again. Although a legitimate disc could have 12 eps on it legitimately. I work with video all day so I know how big the file sizes are. UY is not HD video it's not 18-228Mbps. It's SD video. If it was a Blu-Ray disc with HD video say 16Mbps then yes you'd be limited to how many eps would fit on a 25GB disc. My own videos are 24Mbps 1080p60i and take up approx 1MB per second. That's 1.8GB per half hour roughly. UY and earlier anime is significantly smaller than that. At most it's going to be 16Mbps for Blu-Ray so SD is much slower than that. A DVD is 4.7GB. SD video will probably fit 12 eps easily onto it including Menus and menu options etc...
Just make certain it's actually bootleg before you report it as such.

[Urusei0Yatsura]

Why don't they reduce the amount of discs in a complete collection then?

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Why don't they reduce the amount of discs in a complete collection then?

Generally speaking it's perceived value. You are getting say 60 discs which is a lot more impressive than say 25 discs.
Also then you have to justify why you are selling only ~2 hours per DVD instead of 6 or 8 hours.
There are so many factors but profit is the number 1 reason.