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Mark Meldon
I'm sorry to have been the bearer of bad news but, you guessed it, my two orders have been cancelled, too; so I was right. We have been here before down the years, I recall sitting up for hours one evening a few years ago greedily ordering a load of stuff from "Abundatrade" all of which was cancelled.
I have learnt one important thing, however. That's that whoever "dodax" "nagiry" or whatever funny name they come up with are, they seemingly don't actually hold physical stock and that they are always based overseas. The thing to note is that where a marketplace seller chooses to have Amazon fulfil the order this means that physical stock is in a warehouse owned and operated by Amazon itself. They don't control the prices set by resellers and this resulted in a happy experience for me back in the Spring when one business made significant (but not silly) offers. I picked up a bundle of discs for between 19p and £3 each, all new and all delivered.
So, ignore the "funny names" and don't procrastinate if you see a CD for a low price when fulfilled by Amazon.
I've noticed of late that the Amazon "price search" facility is barely functional and has anyone else noticed consumer reviews being linked to absolutely the wrong discs?
To be fair, we all knew prices impossible and, after all, how many box sets have we got where we will never get round to listening to all of the discs!
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Originally posted by Mark Meldon View Postafter all, how many box sets have we got where we will never get round to listening to all of the discs![FONT=Comic Sans MS][I][B]Numquam Satis![/B][/I][/FONT]
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Mark Meldon
I'm ABSOLUTELY as guilty as anyone else as far as "boxsetitis" is concerned. Will I ever be really be able to truthfully say that I have played all of my big pink Rubinstein set, the Brilliant Classics Bach Edition, Yo-Yo Ma's 30-years outside the box (it was very tempting and I fell), the Membran Furtwangler box, the RCA Toscanini Box (well, maybe!), the Vivarte box, Hyperion's Schubert Lieder? I rather doubt it.
Right now I'm playing a CD from the Beethoven Brilliant Classics box (the one with all of the ex-Philips recordings) with Clara Haskil and Arthur Grumiaux playing Beethoven's Violin Sonata in A minor Op.23, and I'm beginning to think "Well, you know, this is really sufficient and beautifully played; why did I just order the Faust/Melnikov set last night?"
Maybe it boils down to deciding whether its the music or just being a CD collector. As I know I'll be dead one day, it just has to be the music!
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Originally posted by Mark Meldon View PostI've noticed of late that the Amazon "price search" facility is barely functional and has anyone else noticed consumer reviews being linked to absolutely the wrong discs?
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So far, 2 of my amazon.co.uk marketplace orders have been cancelled (the Abbado and Piano boxes) and 2 (the Sony Wagner and Wand boxes) are shown as being prepared for dispatch (we'll see). A further German marketplace order has been cancelled (the Perahia box). The Gould box from an amazon.it seller is also currently shown as being prepared for dispatch. I'll believe it when I see it.Last edited by Bryn; 21-10-14, 21:09.
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Just had an email from Nagiry trading on AmEs marketplace saying that the Bach/Gould, Perahia, Vivarte and Living Stereo V2 have been despatched via DHL. I ran the email through the translator just to make sure. Two of these (Vivarte and Perahia) are Christmas presents for friends and I added the Gould simply to try once again after over a decade to see if I can discern what all the fuss is about despite the vocal obligato. This of course assumes that I have become more tolerant with the passing years.
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Does anyone on here ever think that maybe they have no need to buy more cds,and stick with what they have ?
I tried recently,then came the complete Weinberg string quartets.
I had to have the Rozhdestvensky RVW symphonies too.
The new Bax/Andrew Davis cd has arrived.
Now I'm going to stick,I think,or maybe not.
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Originally posted by EdgeleyRob View PostDoes anyone on here ever think that maybe they have no need to buy more cds,and stick with what they have ?
I tried recently,then came the complete Weinberg string quartets.
I had to have the Rozhdestvensky RVW symphonies too.
The new Bax/Andrew Davis cd has arrived.
Now I'm going to stick,I think,or maybe not.
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Originally posted by EdgeleyRob View PostDoes anyone on here ever think that maybe they have no need to buy more cds,and stick with what they have ?
I tried recently,then came the complete Weinberg string quartets.
I had to have the Rozhdestvensky RVW symphonies too.
The new Bax/Andrew Davis cd has arrived.
Now I'm going to stick,I think,or maybe not.
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Originally posted by EdgeleyRob View PostDoes anyone on here ever think that maybe they have no need to buy more cds,and stick with what they have ?.
At present, for example, I've still got 4 Ring cycles unheard!"The sound is the handwriting of the conductor" - Bernard Haitink
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Originally posted by Bryn View PostSo far, 2 of my amazon.co.uk marketplace orders have been cancelled (the Abbado and Piano boxes) and 2 (the Sony Wagner and Wand boxes) are shown as being prepared for dispatch (we'll see). A further German marketplace order has been cancelled (the Perahia box). The Gould box from an amazon.it seller is also currently shown as being prepared for dispatch. I'll believe it when I see it.
I have wondered if there's some form of scam going on, but I can't figure out what it might be. Fakes, maybe?
Perhaps it really just is a snafu - for want of a less polite expression, in which case give the putative vendors the benefits of some doubts maybe.
PS: There is now some comment on the original notification site - http://bons-plans-classique.blogspot.co.uk/
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Originally posted by EdgeleyRob View PostDoes anyone on here ever think that maybe they have no need to buy more cds,and stick with what they have ?
I tried recently,then came the complete Weinberg string quartets.
I had to have the Rozhdestvensky RVW symphonies too.
The new Bax/Andrew Davis cd has arrived.
Now I'm going to stick,I think,or maybe not.
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