Mozart Edition - complete this time.

[umslopogaas]

#29 Well, ferney, you are right in that my hifi shop doesnt actually do much to order discs from Amazon, and I could easily do it myself, but I dont mind paying them a fee to do it for me, because I'm very averse to using credit cards and particularly using them on line. I'm sure there are all sorts of safeguards, but I just dont like using plastic for anything other than getting cash out of cash machines. I know this aversion is costing me money, but I'm prepared to pay the price. So the shop buys for me on line, and I pay them in cash. Buying discs is very much a sideline for them, and I may be their only customer for CDs, they mostly sell rather classy hi fi equipment.

[Bryn]

Yes. I had it too.

Moi aussi.

[Bryn]

New email from amazon.couk, the boxed set has now been dispatched. New estimated delivery date is this Thursday.

[MickyD]

Sorry for all the disappointment you had - it's strange that Amazon won't honour that price...they did in the past with the mistakenly-priced Real Chopin box.

[ardcarp]

en rupture de stock.

Bit of an Anglo Saxon word there. Surprised l'Academie Francaise isn't sur le sentier de la guerre..

[MickyD]

Bit of an Anglo Saxon word there. Surprised l'Academie Francaise isn't sur le sentier de la guerre..

The worst latest anglicisism to enter the language is 'surbooké': 'Je ne peux pas venir demain parce que je suis surbooké"

[Eine Alpensinfonie]

It is rather disappointing. I really would like to be able to afford the new set, and I acknowledge that £300 is very good value.

[vinteuil]

The worst latest anglicisism to enter the language is 'surbooké': 'Je ne peux pas venir demain parce que je suis surbooké"

,,, that is bad indeed. I also loathe the use of 'afterworks' to replace the good old 'cinq à sept' -

http://www.lefigaro.fr/vie-bureau/2015/09/15/09008-20150915ARTFIG00225-non-je-n-irai-plus-drinker-aux-afterworks.php

[Bryn]

Picked up my set this morning on the way to work. A cursory check showed the four sub-base and the first slip-cases in each to be appropriately labelled. The box is now locked up in the boot of my car. I will make a more thorough check of the contents when I get home tonight. Our misprints amazon.fr orders may have been frustrated but less than £300 for such a comprehensive set, It would be churlish to complain at the 2 days delay in the delivery of the Amazon.co.uk order.

[MickyD]

,,, that is bad indeed. I also loathe the use of 'afterworks' to replace the good old 'cinq à sept' -

http://www.lefigaro.fr/vie-bureau/20...afterworks.php

Today was even worse - whilst apologising to me, one of my students actually used that dreadful expression "My bad"...I told him never to use it again, at least not in my company!

[Thropplenoggin]

This mammoth box is being reviewed on Saturday's Record Review.

[umslopogaas]

Interesting development. As I posted earlier, when I took my defective set back to the hifi shop, Amazon wanted to charge an extra fifty quid for the replacement. I said I'd go home and think about it. The shop rang this morning to say that Amazon are now going to replace it for the original price, so I told them to go ahead.

I'm sure the extra charge was illegal, and I think Amazon realised it. Surely, when you agree to buy goods at a certain price, you have entered a contract? If so, and the goods are defective, the contract requires them to be replaced for that price? Can anyone who knows more about the law than me comment?

[Eine Alpensinfonie]

This mammoth box is being reviewed on Saturday's Record Review.

And very interesting it is too - open-minded about performance styles.

I really want this set.

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

And very interesting it is too - open-minded about performance styles.

- a very successful example of the "conversation" method of reviewing, too. (At least in the sense that it asked and answered all the questions I'd had about the set - plus a few more that hadn't occurred to me.)

I really want this set.

So do I!!! (And as a direct result of this Review - the set is a much wider project than I'd "decided" it would be. £400? Ooooohhhhh ..... )

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

£400? Ooooohhhhh ..... )

???? - did I mishear? I thought NK/AmcG both said £400 ("about £2 a disc") - but it's less than half that price on Amazon. (So much less, that I shall probably have a stiff whisky or two this afternoon and order it. It's only money - less than a year's Home Insurance - cheaper than the Vinyl Rattle/Brahms - In fact, I'm finding it difficult to imagine a good (or even a feeble) reason not to get it! HELP!!!!!)