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In article <5402@taurus.cs.nps.navy.mil> hebo@hp850.mbari.org (Bob Herlien) writes:
>In article <12q1keINNkas@agate.berkeley.edu> gtchen@glacier.berkeley.edu (George Chen) writes:
>>Does anyone have any experience with those CD clubs that you
>>find in magazines and in the mail.  Like the Columbia club and
>>the BMI club...  I was thinking of joining the BMI Club since
>>[remainder deleted]

>I thought the name was BMG (I don't have any literature from them handy
>right now).  In any case, I've belonged to this club.  All-in-all I'd call
>it a good, not great, deal.  They are as cheap as they say.  The per-CD
>shipping charge is nominal, around $2.50 or $3 as I recall. How do they
>[remainder deleted]

I cancelled my membership in BMG years ago, and am planning to cancel
my membership to Columbia, too.  Why?  Because I just don't get what I
consider to be a good deal anymore.

My current deal with Columbia (as a "preferred member") is that for each
CD I buy (at usually $14.95) I get another CD for half price.  Then, they
add shipping and handling.  So, that's what, about $22.44 for 2 CDs, then
the shipping and handling on top of that, which I think Bob got right at
around 2-3 dollars.  For 2 CDs, that's, say, another 4 bucks, which brings
it up to $26.44, or $13.22 per CD.  

Heck, I get a better average price than that from the CD Warehouse on
El Camino Real in Sunnyvale.

Howsomever, there is a better deal than that, even.  If you tend to buy
CDs in stacks, as I do (ten at a time, no problem!) the Compact Disc 
Connection is a great deal.  They take your order by dialin.  You dial
in to their service, for free, browse their titles, again for free, and
place your order.  For orders under $100 there is some shipping and
handling fee, I believe (they tell you that in the course of being 
introduced to their system, and again when you place your order.) but if
you pool orders with a friend, or just order $100 at a time as I do (I
order about once a quarter or so) there is no shipping fee.

I placed an order a few weeks ago.  I found their system easy to understand
and operate.  I found their selection good (maybe too good 8-) and it
was easy to place the order.  I got several chances to modify my order and
change my mind.  The order arrived within 5 working days (seems to me that
it was actually 3 working days, but I' not sure) along with a nice surprise:
they didn't have one of the CDs I had ordered, and substituted a CD I had
never heard of (but liked) free of charge.  

Here is the pertinent information:

Compact Disc Connection
Modem: 408/730-9015 8-N-1  up to 9600 bps
Tel & Fax: 408/733-0801

I'm not including their address, because they do not have any facilities
for people to stop by and shop.  They are strictly an order store.

Hope you enjoy their service as much as I did.

Teri