Oh brother. Spent $345 yesterday getting my wife's car fixed. Haven't cracked open even one of the 12 Audio Wave XRCDs I just bought. Yet can I resist this 10% off sale? Probably not
Wow. I bought a Like New used album (Best of Kinks) from ImportCDs. I got the cover of the Kinks album I wanted but with Kanye's Dark Twisted Fantasy LP and a CD of Springsteen's Wrecking Ball. What the heck???
$375 this time and there will likely be another batch to tie up some loose ends before the sale is done.
I didn't know importcds even sold used CDs. That sounds more like what I used to get from FYE/Secondspin. You never knew what might be in your order from them.
Yes, if we buy through Amazon then we have protection. Otherwise, we take a risk. I've been lucky so far ordering directly form ImportCD, except for a couple of CD-Rs, one of which they refunded me for. The other I got a bit of a discount. Fingers crossed on my order going in for next Monday.
I've ordered a lot from them in the last 7 months. Directly. Haven't had one single incident. Even get all my purchases within 3 days of shipping, once I learned an upgrade from Media Mail to Priority was only $.99 per item !!!!!!
If you're placing a large order, expedited shipping is usually less than standard. It has a bigger base ($4.99 first item compared to $2.99 for standard), but then each additional item is only 99 cents as opposed to $1.49. The cross-over is at five items, where expedited shipping is the same cost as standard, but of course, faster. Any more items and expedited shipping is less expensive than standard. Five items expedited - $8.94 = [$4.98 + (.99 * 4)] Five items standard - $8.95 = [$2.99 + (1.49 * 4)]
I placed two different orders during the 10% off deal. I thought I was done with the first one, then thought of some other stuff I'd want so went back today and did it again. Glad the sale ends today, I've spent way too much money on CD's in November.
I always wait 'till the last day so I don't have to pay the $5 to Canada base rate twice, or more. I added 3 items at the last minute today. And I won't tell you how bad the Canadian dollar is right now. Worse since the election. As I say to my wife, "you should see what I didn't buy."
I bought three new shm sacd titles all ones that newly use the platinum flat transfer mastering on sacd. Synchronicity, Blind Faith, and Allman Brothers Fillmore. They were all on backorder so I hope they don't take too long. The prices even beat cdjapan. I also got a few mofi sacds