@digital*ghost wrote:
@springyzone wrote:I would generally expect any DVD sold in an English speaking country such as UK or Australia to be in English.
That was the whole problem though.
Expecting it, rather than making sure - ebay sellers aren't like a retail outlet such as JB Hi-Fi, where everything is designed to cater purely for the domestic market, ergo all movies available are either in English, or have English subtitles.
I would be willing to bet the seller in question, if they have 700+ negs, are one of those media sellers that collate catalogues of titles available to them from all over the EU, and list item in massive volumes based on scant info they get from distributors - there are book, CD and DVD sellers in the EU who all do the same thing. They get any and everything, and list it worldwide.
I understand what you are saying and I have no objection at all to a distributor selling items from all over. That is fine.
I do think it is reasonable though that a buyer could see in an ad what language a DVD movie was in, especially when we are talking about one that had a cover with a title in English.
I actually don't care that a seller has scant information, that is their concern.
As a buyer, my concern is that I am given basic information & that that information is correct.
I think that is a reasonable expectation.
If a seller is selling, say, 2000 DVDs and they are in a range of 60 different languages, then to me, basic info would be what region they are suitable for, the language they are in and the title of the movie.
I absolutely do not expect that a movie will have English subtitles unless it says that in the actual ad.
To me, the whole discussion hinges on what was said in the actual ad for this DVD (which i haven't thought to try to trace).
If the ad said the movie was in eg German and it is in German, then it is exactly as described.
If the ad showed an English title on the DVD cover and was advertised on an English ebay site, using the English title and then a buyer found the contents were not in English, then that would be another matter.
