Well, at least this wasn't from a library set
So I finally get a chance to listen to my “Speaking Greek” cassette, which I got from Amazon last month, along with the companion books in the “Reading Greek” series, since I now have a little leisure time in which to try learning Greek.
I was really looking forward to finally hearing how Ancient Greek's supposed to be pronounced, since the library has only modern and New Testament Greek in its language kits.
The very first time I try to play it, the damn thing unspools and tangles up into my tape deck. No problem, right, I can gently ease it out?
Wrong. Apparently it's gotten so tangled, and in such a way that even breaking open my cassette deck to try and extract it doesn't help. I've tried with chopsticks and tweezers, and I don't know if I can get it out in one piece, or at all.
Right now I'm taking a break from about two hours of frustration. I'll probably vent some of it at the Cambridge University Press for making such a shoddy item which should have been transferred to CD a long time ago.
It's noticeably lighter than the other cassette I have which has the same play duration, and the tape reel seems much thinner and flimsier, though that could just be because it's brown instead of black.
The irony is that I'd just finished using my tape deck to play a different language tape without any problems right beforehand, and had no problems with it last week when I got that old Inuktitut kit out of the library, or the time before with those Icelandic ones.
So, in addition to replacing this cassette, I'll also have to find another tape deck. Damnit.
Anyway, I'm going to contact Amazon to see what can be done. It's defective and very definitely not compatible with my equipment, so at the very least, I'm hoping to get a refund, if not a replacement.
From the looks of it, I'm just barely within the "30 days from delivery return window", since I received this March 9th according to Canada Post records and today is April 9th, so hopefully I'll be able to replace it without having to pay for another, which would mprobably make me quit buying stuff from them, which would on the bright side save me several hundred dollars per year.
The automated return centre thing shows that particular order as being still returnable as I type this, so that ought to count for something.
Ideally, I'd prefer a replacement (hopefully non-defective) since this was part paid for with a gift certificate I earned by buying a bunch of stuff during their last promotion. And it did ruin my tape deck, of which I took some pictures, and the following are the least fuzzy.
I wish I could get a really good close-up of the damage (damn tape seems to have stuck to itself or melted), but I can't get the hang of the zoom function.
I'm just glad I didn't wait until after the holidays to finally check things out.
I was really looking forward to finally hearing how Ancient Greek's supposed to be pronounced, since the library has only modern and New Testament Greek in its language kits.
The very first time I try to play it, the damn thing unspools and tangles up into my tape deck. No problem, right, I can gently ease it out?
Wrong. Apparently it's gotten so tangled, and in such a way that even breaking open my cassette deck to try and extract it doesn't help. I've tried with chopsticks and tweezers, and I don't know if I can get it out in one piece, or at all.
Right now I'm taking a break from about two hours of frustration. I'll probably vent some of it at the Cambridge University Press for making such a shoddy item which should have been transferred to CD a long time ago.
It's noticeably lighter than the other cassette I have which has the same play duration, and the tape reel seems much thinner and flimsier, though that could just be because it's brown instead of black.
The irony is that I'd just finished using my tape deck to play a different language tape without any problems right beforehand, and had no problems with it last week when I got that old Inuktitut kit out of the library, or the time before with those Icelandic ones.
So, in addition to replacing this cassette, I'll also have to find another tape deck. Damnit.
Anyway, I'm going to contact Amazon to see what can be done. It's defective and very definitely not compatible with my equipment, so at the very least, I'm hoping to get a refund, if not a replacement.
From the looks of it, I'm just barely within the "30 days from delivery return window", since I received this March 9th according to Canada Post records and today is April 9th, so hopefully I'll be able to replace it without having to pay for another, which would mprobably make me quit buying stuff from them, which would on the bright side save me several hundred dollars per year.
The automated return centre thing shows that particular order as being still returnable as I type this, so that ought to count for something.
Ideally, I'd prefer a replacement (hopefully non-defective) since this was part paid for with a gift certificate I earned by buying a bunch of stuff during their last promotion. And it did ruin my tape deck, of which I took some pictures, and the following are the least fuzzy.
I wish I could get a really good close-up of the damage (damn tape seems to have stuck to itself or melted), but I can't get the hang of the zoom function.
I'm just glad I didn't wait until after the holidays to finally check things out.
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