About Us

Welcome! Welcome to Cassette Comeback (in Canada).
As many of you know, Cassette Comeback was created by cassette revival legend Tony Villa in the UK. Tony Villa decided to retire his Blank Cassette on-line hobby store as of March 31st. 2021, due mostly to the lack of fresh new stock available. As you are well aware of, our inventories are not supported by the manufacturers of these relic sealed cassette tapes, but rather from many who have opted during the last 20-40 years not to send them to the landfills. MINIMUM ORDER: 2 Cassettes!!

For those that do not know yet, my name is Antonio Cruz, Tony for short, and yes... it just had to be another Tony!

I partnered up with Mr. Villa late November of 2019. I aim to carry out his concept of selling NOS (New Old Stock) cassette tapes and continue to help the cassette revival movement. I might eventually fall victim to the same reasons that lead the UK store to close, but that time is not here yet.

Current Challenges:
Pricing of cassettes. I aim to keep the cost (to you, the customer) of all available tapes within its possible lowest levels. One of the ways I manage to do this, especially with tapes that are highly sought after, or are plain simple "rare", is by offering them repeatedly but at low inventory levels. If I were to make them all available all at once, the only way to be able to offer them to a greater audience would be by keeping prices very high. This way you would get the one elusive tape but at a very high cost to you.

By keeping low inventory levels, I can offer them at a much lower prices to a wider audience. Otherwise, someone with a lot of money would be able to sweep the entire stock very quickly regardless of their reasons, while the rest of you would always see the rarities here always posted as "SOLD"!  Anyway, I could be wrong for taking this approach, but for now, that's the way it goes.

Warranty & Technical Issues:
All tapes acquired by Cassette Comeback are thoroughly wiped down clean and disinfected with a mild surface cleaning solution that has no odour. They also go through a visual inspection to avoid sending you tapes that may appear to have mould inside or other visible undesirable properties. I typically also open one tape from most batches I receive, for two reasons. One, to take photos of the actual tape inside, and two, to inspect for things such as mould, and/or the presence of other non-desirable elements.

Upon inspection, any tapes that show decaying properties like magnetic layer(s) shredding and other easily visible defects, will not be sold here, or any relevant such properties will be disclosed within each tape's listing. Overall, sealed tapes you receive from me, will have gone a fair amount of quality inspection as described above.

On the technical front, if your cassette deck is not equipped to properly calibrate and/or adjust the bias of certain tapes, or you do not have sufficient knowledge to adequately handle challenging tapes such as pure chrome tapes, as an example, I will not offer you a refund. Most manufacturers of these decades-long "survivors" no longer exist, and whatever remains of some of them, all their warranties have all expired. Remember that all so called "Life Time Warranties" actually have a 25-Year limitation! It makes no sense therefore that I would offer any kind of warranty on these relics. This is nothing new to any NOS cassette tape enthusiast.

Thank you kindly for your support.
Please Note: All Prices are in $USD

Tony Cruz
Canada