Counterfeit DVD update

Phoned FACT, expecting to have to give a lot of details, hand in the disk, etc. Conversation went something like this

FACT: Hello, FACT
Me: I've bought a DVD that I think is counterfeit.
FACT: Did you buy it on eBay
Me: No, I got it from a company's web site.
FACT: Do you have the address?
Me: [supply address]
FACT: What DVD was it?
Me: Transformers (a brief explanation of why I think it's a forgery)
FACT: Okay, I've logged that, thank you.

And that was basically it. Didn't ask for my details, didn't ask me to send them the disk, or any of the other crap I was expecting. Pleasantly surprised.


Later: Requested a refund, have now received one without any comment. They know they're in the wrong.

Later still: Wondered about the bar code and ISBN (which I didn't think was something DVDs had). It turns out that some do - but in this case both are correct for Mission Impossible 3, not transformers.

Todays charity shop bargain...

...was Plum Lovin' by Janet Evanovich, the new Stephanie Plum hardcover, at £2 instead of $16.95

And having read a little way into it I can see why it ended up in a charity shop so quickly. It's a sequel to Visions of Sugar Plums, her Xmas story of a year or two ago, and only 164 pages. And like Visions of Sugar Plums it reads a lot like a Mary-Sue crossover fanfic, in which Our Heroine is the only way a super-powered super-hunk can think of to track down an evil super. The SP books have always had this Mary-Sue element, but it is usually a lot more subdued - here there is no obvious reason why SP should be the detective of choice when dealing with a rogue super, and attempts to justify it make it make the unlikeliness of the character a little too obvious.

I may be misjudging it, and as I said I haven't read much of it yet, but I'm not optimistic. More (possibly) when I finish it.