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<blockquote data-quote="jdrakeh" data-source="post: 3739238" data-attributes="member: 13892">I ordered some new copes of a few D&amp;D 3.5&nbsp; books from an Amazon reseller and while they arrived safely and are, in fact, new. . . the Lords of Madness book has a horrible binding job. Specifically, the cardboard insert in the spine is loose and the pages seem to have been cut unevenly on the spine side, which has resulted in the pages in the last half of the book not being fully held in place by the binder's glue. Now, before anybody thinks I'm posting about this just to complain, I should mention that the book has a small red ink dot (from a marker) on the bottom edge of the book (i.e., on the pages). I worked for a commercial book bindery for a brief period of time in the late 1990s and, to me, this looks like the kind of mark that we applied to defective stock prior to destruction (and, given, the condition of this book, I'd certainly say that it qualifies). Is it possible that somebody has been selling pirated WotC stock to retailers and other resellers? I know nothing about WotC's printing process or how they handle the destruction of defective stock, though I can certainly see a bindery employee sneaking home a box or two of defective stock for gifts and/or personal use and later getting the not-so-bright idea to sell them. Anybody else see anything like this before?</blockquote>

[QUOTE="jdrakeh, post: 3739238, member: 13892"] I ordered some new copes of a few D&D 3.5 books from an Amazon reseller and while they arrived safely and are, in fact, new. . . the Lords of Madness book has a [i]horrible[/i] binding job. Specifically, the cardboard insert in the spine is loose and the pages seem to have been cut unevenly on the spine side, which has resulted in the pages in the last half of the book not being fully held in place by the binder's glue. Now, before anybody thinks I'm posting about this just to complain, I should mention that the book has a small red ink dot (from a marker) on the bottom edge of the book (i.e., on the pages). I worked for a commercial book bindery for a brief period of time in the late 1990s and, to me, this looks like the kind of mark that we applied to defective stock prior to destruction (and, given, the condition of this book, I'd certainly say that it qualifies). Is it possible that somebody has been selling pirated WotC stock to retailers and other resellers? I know nothing about WotC's printing process or how they handle the destruction of defective stock, though I can certainly see a bindery employee sneaking home a box or two of defective stock for gifts and/or personal use and later getting the not-so-bright idea to sell them. Anybody else see anything like this before? [/QUOTE]

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