Bargains

[Dave2002]

Just updated to 13:00 - 14:00.

I'm on tenterhooks. So exciting!

[vinteuil]

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... well it arrived ! At 13:18.

Spoiler alert -


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... it ain't what I (we) ordered

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[AuntDaisy]

... it ain't what I (we) ordered

What is it!? You can't leave us in suspense. We must know!

[Bryn]

I'm on tenterhooks. So exciting!

The utterly wrong item was just delivered by DPD (not Evri). A single CD "Love and Death Between Here & Lost" "10th Anniversary Edition". Return and refund are about to be initiated along with a strong complaint.

[AuntDaisy]

The utterly wrong item was just delivered by DPD (not Evri). A single CD "Love and Death Between Here & Lost" "10th Anniversary Edition". Return and refund are about to be initiated along with a strong complaint.

How frustrating! Good luck.

[Bryn]

How frustrating! Good luck.

"Refund issued
You don't need to return the item

• £19.14 refund issued on Oct 27, 2023."

[AuntDaisy]

"Refund issued
You don't need to return the item

• £19.14 refund issued on Oct 27, 2023."

Well done.
Will you dance upon the CD remnants or will it away to the charity shop?

[vinteuil]

... ego autem -

Refund issued

You don't need to return the item
£19.14 refund issued on Oct 27, 2023.

Anyone here interested in an unopened, bran-new, copy of 'Love & Death : between here and lost', girder/blind tiger records, 10th anniversary edition...
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[Bryn]

However, we were warned:

Found the following post on another forum:

"Another fail on the DG Avant-Garde set. I too have received Between Here and Lost by Love and Death. Christian metal apparently. I have also been told the global store does not do replacements and my only option is a refund.

However, Amazon have offered to price match for my new order! We will see how that goes, but if it works, a big thumbs up to Amazon's customer service from me.

[Dave2002]

Now I'm getting a "will be delivered on Tuesday" message and a UPS tracking code.

Is today Tuesday?

Just had a delivery [15:07] of "Love and Death" - so how do I get my refund? [Not showing as delivered, yet.]

Did indeed come via UPS.

What was that all about, anyway?

[Bryn]

Is today Tuesday?

Just had a delivery [15:07] of "Love and Death" - so how do I get my refund?

Did indeed come via UPS.

What was that all about, anyway?

Just go to your Amazon order, via your Amazon account, click on "Return Items" and follow the instructions. You will be offered a choice of a refund to your Amazon account or to your card account (with the claim that the former is quicker). I opted for a refund to my credit card. All down to an error in their ASIIN codes, it seems.

[Dave2002]

Just go to your Amazon order, via your Amazon account, click on "Return Items" and follow the instructions. You will be offered a choice of a refund to your Amazon account or to your card account (with the claim that the former is quicker). I opted for a refund to my credit card. All down to an error in their ASIIN codes, it seems.

I nearly always go for the refund to my credit card, but once or twice recently I have come up against a question "Do you always check that the refund has happened?" Does this mean that they are hoping that some people won't check, so they don't do the refund?

I'm still not sure if I can click the button for the refund if the status is still showing as "not yet delivered" - but my guess is that I can. There are some peculiar anomalies about Amazon's online sites, and its updating. In the limit there's probably the option of phoning up - which I'd done before. and AFAIK Amazon customer service is usually pretty good - though in one case for a faulty item I had to negotiate quite hard as I was told to take it to a post office or depot, and they'd give me something like £3.50 to cover the carriage. Given that the carriage was in fact closer to £20 I fought hard about that one, but eventually they gave in and paid the full cost of the return - though it was still very inconvenient.

I have a couple of other Amazon related comments/queries - but I'll only mention one here. In the last few days I've had a few telephone messages about my Prime account. I have ignored them. I think they are a scam trying to get me to update or amend my details by making a phone call back to the "originator". Am I [probably] correct?

[teamsaint]

... ego autem -

Refund issued

You don't need to return the item
£19.14 refund issued on Oct 27, 2023.

Anyone here interested in an unopened, bran-new, copy of 'Love & Death : between here and lost', girder/blind tiger records, 10th anniversary edition...
.

I have suspicion that younger son may be interested in what I assume will be my copy. I think he likes Korn, which was a connected band.

[FRJames]

George Szell - Complete Columbia Collection - Sony - (106CD)

https://www.amazon.co.uk/George-Szell-Complete-Columbia-Collection/dp/B079VD2YRP/ref=sr_1_1?crid=D4YALGBNSSFQ&keywords=szell+comple te+columbia&qid=1698953977&s=music&sprefix=szell+c omplete+columbia%2Cclassical%2C75&sr=1-1&ufe=app_do%3Aamzn1.fos.cc223b57-2b86-485c-a85e-6431c1f06c86

Currently £157.87 post free - as cheap as I have seen it.

[Retune]

Another ClassicSelectWorld free download:

https://www.classicselectworld.com/products/liszt-saint-saens-piano-concertos-emil-gilels-kiril-kondrashin-russian-state-symphony-orchestra

Liszt: Piano Concerto No. 1.
Saint-Saëns: Piano Concerto No. 2.

Emil Gilels, State Symphony Orchestra of the USSR, Kiril Kondrashin.

Mono FLAC and mp3

Vanguard Release from 1954:

https://www.discogs.com/release/15308049-Emil-Gilels-Liszt-Saint-Saens-Emil-Gilels-Plays-Liszt-Saint-Saens

Looks like the recordings date to 1948-50:

https://pianistdiscography.com/discography/pianistLabel.php?sortType=1&cdnum=7280