#6
Post
by lipi » Wed Mar 23, 2005 11:46 pm
i spent a good while comparing bmg and yourmusic.com prices and catalogues today. findings below.
catalogues: i could not find a single disc i wanted on either which the other did not carry. (edit: o.k., yourmusic doesn't have the beatles catalogue, for instance. bmg has some full-price discs that it doesn't let you have at lower prices. none of those are available at yourmusic.com.)
prices: you should not order from bmg without the (fairly frequent) "buy one, get unlimited $1.99 cd's" offer they send to members -- all the other offers are worse, unless you happen to just buy three discs and get two free for your first purchase, or something. i'm assuming bulk buying here. like any of us ever order, like, one cd at a time. please. no one in the hood play like that.
bmg's shipping and handling is $2.79 per disc, plus $1.99 per additional disc in sets. so a 2 disc set will be 2x$1.99 + ($2.79 + $1.99) = $8.76, for example. add to that the one full price cd you're buying, divided by the total number of cd's you're getting.
if you start a new membership you get 12 for the price of 1, and end up a little ahead ($1.58 instead of $1.99 base per disc), but you can't order a bunch of things (like sets of more than 2 discs). i'm too lazy to start and stop my membership every time, so i don't bother.
yourmusic.com's price is now $5.99 per disc.
both bmg and yourmusic.com charge tax for shipments to cali. i'll leave it out of the equation, because i'm lazy. it makes bmg relatively a little cheaper, because there's no tax on the shipping & handling.
this is probably the only part of this post you care about:
1 cd from bmg: $4.78, yourmusic: $5.99
2 cd set from bmg: $8.76, yourmusic: $11.98
(and add to bmg's prices the cost of the one full priced cd you have to get in your order.)
sets of 3 or more discs are cheaper on yourmusic because bmg does not extend the 1.99 per cd rate to them (so you pay, say $23 for the set) but does charge the $1.99 shipping premium. in particular, you can get ella's complete songbooks (16 cd's) for $96 at yourmusic (it's, like, $200 at bmg). fun, fun, fun.
Last edited by
lipi on Thu Mar 24, 2005 12:41 pm, edited 2 times in total.
