This annoyance lives with us too! Walvis has been around since 1961 as one of the leading specialist European suppliers of media packaging. This to the great frustration of all those collectors and enthusiasts who just want to have their music available in an old-fashioned way on a physical sound carrier (Compact Disc or Gramophone record). Yet there are countless importers in Europe who market this "junk" either via the internet or via chainstores.
In fact, these packages are no longer made for the European market, but for countries where CDs are still commonly used (countries that belong to the Third World) and where the quality requirements are much lower. Although the demand for CDs in Europe is nowadays not even a fraction of what was sold in its heyday, many suppliers are still importing CD cases from China in particular today, which, although cheap, are of totally inferior quality. This was at the expense of the weight and the overall quality of the boxes. As the CD market exploded during the following decades, market parties were looking for ways to produce these boxes more cheaply.
In the first instance, these were packaged in Jewel Cases that were made much heavier and more robust. Compact Discs are being manufactured since the beginning of the 1980s.
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