Friday 6 February, 2004
Firefly box set and other thoughts
Drat. I had ordered the Firefly box set from playusa.com, and it arrived yesterday - together with a customs notice of extra duty of £8. Which is like third of the price of the box set. Gone are the days where they shipped region 1 DVDs first to UK to Play and then to customers avoiding any extra charges. Now it takes three times longer to arrive, and is more expensive (ok, if it goes above £18, which normal DVDs wouldn't) - and they accredit it to "free economy".
The court ruling for CD-WOW, another of my favourite online shops, said that they violated UK copyright laws when they were importing cheaper CDs from outside Europe. Legitimate CDs I should add, not pirated ones or anything dodgy. So they were forced to put up their prices, artificially. I don't really understand this at all - if the material is genuine, how does it break the law exactly? I did get an email from CD-WOW this week that said that they had made some cuts in personnel and were now able to bring the price of CDs down again (and how exactly that makes it legal, I really don't know).
To be honest, I think £8.99 is an extremely reasonable price for a CD - and it makes me very angry that there are high-street shops that still charge double that.
Posted by kolibri at 6 February 10:00, 2004I've ordered bucket loads of CDs (One order had over 40 CDs for me and a friend) from http://www.secondspin.com/ . You might want to give them a try. They (unless things have changed) will ship without the plastic box (but with the paper) so the shipping is very low, and the condition of all the CDs I got from them were always top notch.
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