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Re: fraud co.--------BMG Music Service

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From: sigvid
Date: Tue, 18 Feb 1997 00:00
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Will Bell <wbb@netcom.com> wrote:
: In a previous article, Tina Shake <tinam@dmrtc.net> wrote:
: >year so we order all our free c/ds buy our one selection (with by the way 
: >the postage and handling is around $2.39 per c/d approx! not bad!) and 

: You're right, $2.39 for postage and handling is not "bad", it's
: completely outrageous.  I can mail a CD first class for  $0.78.  I
: would expect that they pay less than a quarter to ship a CD using their
: "Special Fourth Class Rate".

Well, true, I'm sure P&H is a profit center too, but it *does* cost them
something for the box they ship it in, and the materials (ie, the bill and
envelope) they send with, and I would assume there's some overhead cost
attached to actually storing and packing the CD in your box. Is it $2.3
per CD? Hardly. But P&H is more than just the P, ya know.

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yokel vote."

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From: sigvid <sigvid@primenet.com>
Subject: Re: fraud co.--------BMG Music Service
Date: 1997/02/18
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