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We have seen a lot of customers with very poor quality navigation disks having all sorts of problems. Mostly these disks have come from eBay sellers. These disks are sometimes quite convincing in their look. However, these copied disks do not work aswell in the navigation drives due to them having greater error retries, less refelctivity than proper disks and distinct lack of quality control. They also cause a laser mechanism to work harder retrying unsuccessful reads. This shortens the length of the laser's life.
I recently had a very productive meeting with our Teleatlas account manager and they are actively working on seeking out these people who are selling counterfeit disks. They do not seem too worried about the odd individuals who simply copy a disk for themselves. We have agreed to work with them on these commercial scale ripoffs and therefore if anyone knows of or has bought any copied disks and would like to 'expose' the sellers, then please email us or PM me in the strictest of confidence and I will pass on the relevant information. We may even be able to offer a special discount on a proper disk for anyone helping us
Thanks.
I recently had a very productive meeting with our Teleatlas account manager and they are actively working on seeking out these people who are selling counterfeit disks. They do not seem too worried about the odd individuals who simply copy a disk for themselves. We have agreed to work with them on these commercial scale ripoffs and therefore if anyone knows of or has bought any copied disks and would like to 'expose' the sellers, then please email us or PM me in the strictest of confidence and I will pass on the relevant information. We may even be able to offer a special discount on a proper disk for anyone helping us
Thanks.