How to tell is a DB Kai OST on ebay is a MIYA Bootleg or not

[superrayman3]

I'm making this thread to try and help people with info people can use to help them spot a MIYA Records bootleg of any Dragon Ball Kai OST CD (and maybe any MIYA bootleg in general) on Ebay. A couple months ago I bought a copy of Dragon Ball Kai OST III from Ebay user hobbylot (which was a mistake in itself since they have a reputation for selling bootlegs), well when the CD arrived everything looked like the real deal at first glance, but just to be sure I looked all over the packaging for the MIYA Records logo and sure enough on the back and the spines the logo was there. After I found the logo I started comparing the front of my MIYA CD bootlet and the real version looking for any other compareable differences between the two and I've found three things that can be used to spot these CD's on ebay if the seller only posts the front of the case.

1. Check the very top of the cover art very carefully, it's not always obvious at first but if you look closely at the top of the cover art you'll notice the top seems to look like something's out of place compared to the rest of the image, the reason for this is because MIYA Records has a tendency to take a small part of the very top of the image and flip it upside down but the difference is so small it's hard to notice, so if you go looking for any Kai CD's on ebay thoroughly check the top of the cover art for anything that seems wrong.

2. Check the bottom of the cover art for image cutoff, MIYA also seems to cutoff a small part of the bottom of the image (I assume they do this
in order to make their booklets fit in the cases better) but they do it so carefully it's hard to notice but the image loss is there (if your not sure whether image cuttof is present compare the official cover art to the one in the listing and see if the bottom of the image has anything missing).

3. All MIYA bootlegs have the product ID on the front removed.

So if any Kai CD's have these changes to the cover art image then it's a MIYA Records Bootleg.