Sold Something Lately? Did You Ship More Than You Thought?

I recently sold a Sony NetMD N707 MiniDisc Walkman on eBay. It's a good little player/recorder that consumers (and Sony) have kind of forgotten. It's not that the technology is bad—far from it actually. Recording quality is very good and the device itself is useful for notes, remote or location recordings, high fidelity music listening, music backups and so on. In any case, the person who purchased it on eBay got a good deal.

The only problem is that a couple of months prior to auctioning the Walkman on eBay, I tested the device by recording a podcast preparation session onto a minidisc. The chatter during the test including some general setup information, talk about the appropriateness of using the Sony device, and some other, innocuous banter.

How embarrassing was it to receive an e-mail from the buyer expressing some apprehension about the presence of the minidisc in the player, in addition to some concern about the actual recording content? More . . .