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Article #8833Re: fraud co.--------BMG Music Service
From: sigvid
Date: Tue, 18 Feb 1997 00:00
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 $2.3 per CD? Hardly. But P&H is more than just the P, ya know. -- "Democracy is a great thing, except for that part about letting just any yokel vote." sigvid@30fps.com http://www.primenet.com/~sigvid
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X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 106ed4,1cdb0af11b5aeb39 X-Google-Attributes: gid106ed4,public X-Google-Thread: 11474a,13d33f5d7c1c9f1d X-Google-Attributes: gid11474a,public X-Google-Thread: 10fef2,1cdb0af11b5aeb39 X-Google-Attributes: gid10fef2,public X-Google-Thread: 1084c1,1cdb0af11b5aeb39 X-Google-Attributes: gid1084c1,public X-Google-Thread: 107518,13d33f5d7c1c9f1d X-Google-Attributes: gid107518,public From: sigvid <sigvid@primenet.com> Subject: Re: fraud co.--------BMG Music Service Date: 1997/02/18 Message-ID: <5ecjco$k4c@nnrp1.news.primenet.com> X-Deja-AN: 219631305 References: <32F7B36C.65C2@aacci.aacc.cc.md.us> <wbbE5oFs4.19n@netcom.com> <5e9uom$2qi@chronicle.concentric.net> <5eacpl$cbc@dmrtc.net> <wbbE5s3yK.5nG@netcom.com> Organization: Primenet (602)416-7000 X-Posted-By: sigvid@206.165.5.110 (sigvid) Newsgroups: misc.consumers,az.general,in.general,ca.general,alt.consumers.experiences