Bargains

[PJPJ]

Ho ho ho! Well, it made me smile.....



from Presto's front page.

[LeMartinPecheur]

This one however is a steal not an overdose.

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Schubert-Com...4163583&sr=1-2

hafod: I was later than others here in ordering this 'steal' but am delighted to say that it dropped onto my mat today, charged at the quoted silly price

So, very many thanks for the lead, and if anyone else is still waiting, don't despair!

I see RiverpeopleUK are no longer quoting any direct-from-their-shelves price, not even £62...

[Roehre]

hafod: I was later than others here in ordering this 'steal' but am delighted to say that it dropped onto my mat today, charged at the quoted silly price

That makes two of us. (I checked: I ordered my set April 12th. )

[LeMartinPecheur]

That makes two of us. (I checked: I ordered my set April 12th. )

roehre: are we identical twins or just psychically linked? I ordered the same day...

[hafod]

hafod: I was later than others here in ordering this 'steal' but am delighted to say that it dropped onto my mat today, charged at the quoted silly price

So, very many thanks for the lead, and if anyone else is still waiting, don't despair!

Pleased it arrived. Patience is generally a virtue in such circumstances. I have on a number of occasions whacked in an order for what is a silly price and waited and waited... Only once was it cancelled and then readvertised at a higher price.
Music of the Enlightenment - Limited Edition 30 CD set has appeared on this thread before but not at £14.99 (actually £15.25 delivered and Harmonia Mundi are, in my experience, one of the very best marketplace sellers).

http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/offer-listing/B005BZBY1I/?ie=UTF8&tag=bonsplansclas-21&linkCode=ur2&camp=1634&creative=19450&condition=new

[Dave2002]

Hafod

Great deal that on the HM box - Music of the Enlightenment. I've held off on that for a long while, and indeed saw it in a shop recently for around £42. Almost criminal not to order it at that price!

I'm still waiting for some cheap Dvorak CDs - keep getting revised delivery dates. I think they were ordered from the US or Canada!

[ostuni]

Thanks, hafod - ordered!

[Roehre]

roehre: are we identical twins or just psychically linked? I ordered the same day...

According to my mum there was only me, so we must be psychically linked then

[HighlandDougie]

Thanks, hafod - ordered!

Ditto. Even re-importing it back into France it works out at about 54p per CD. Delighted to see that it thus passes the Dave "any CD as long as it's less than 99p" test. I've got half the CDs in the box anyway but, hey, 2 houses = the need for 2 sets of CDs.

[EdgeleyRob]

Ditto. Even re-importing it back into France it works out at about 54p per CD. Delighted to see that it thus passes the Dave "any CD as long as it's less than 99p" test. I've got half the CDs in the box anyway but, hey, 2 houses = the need for 2 sets of CDs.

Ah, one for the cds anonymous thread.
I just need to buy another house to justify my obsession,sorted.

[Dave2002]

Ditto. Even re-importing it back into France it works out at about 54p per CD. Delighted to see that it thus passes the Dave "any CD as long as it's less than 99p" test. I've got half the CDs in the box anyway but, hey, 2 houses = the need for 2 sets of CDs.

Hey, is that me? Have you worked out my algorithm? it's not always 99p. The Mercury box (it IS worth having hafod!) worked out at around £1.50/CD. OTOH the Karajan EMI box of orchestral music does pass the test, providing you ignore the fact that some music is presented at least twice with different dates/orchestras etc. I have been know to pay a lot more per disc. Some Bruckner discs I bought recently were over £8 each - Rattle 9 and Schuricht's 8th on SACDs. The Bernstein Symphony edition was slighly over £1 per disc.

This HM set at the latest offered price is well within the parameters of "my" algorithm.

[Parry1912]

Thanks, hafod - ordered!

Ditto - Thanks for the 'enlightenment' hafod!

[Curalach]

Thanks again Hafod. Not everything in the box is likely to appeal to me but at that price, who cares!

[vinteuil]

Music of the Enlightenment - Limited Edition 30 CD set has appeared on this thread before but not at £14.99 (actually £15.25 delivered and Harmonia Mundi are, in my experience, one of the very best marketplace sellers).

http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/offer-lis...&condition=new

... hafod - many thanks for flagging this up!

This is very much my period, and I think I've probably got at least two-thirds of this already - but at this price....

Thanks again.

As others have indicated, the best solution is probably to acquire another house - a résidence secondaire - and then one wd be absolved from all guilt...

[PJPJ]

Hey, is that me? Have you worked out my algorithm? it's not always 99p. The Mercury box (it IS worth having hafod!) worked out at around £1.50/CD. OTOH the Karajan EMI box of orchestral music does pass the test, providing you ignore the fact that some music is presented at least twice with different dates/orchestras etc. ....

How about the DG Karajan box just coming out? No, I must resist, must resist.