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  1. Jul 19, 1999 · Address: Customer Correspondence. PO Box 91119. Indianapolis, IN 46291-0050. Email: classical@bmgdirect.com. Other Info: Same as for regular BMG music service. Note: BMG gives preference to customer service center requests entered from its web site.

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      BMG launched its online club BMG eClub. No more monthly...

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  2. BMG Music Pricing Review. As far as BMG is concerned, here's how the pricing is broken down: - Shipping cost for 1st cd is $2.69, 2nd is $2.59, and each additional is $2.49. - Total shipping for 12 cds $30.18. - The price of the 1 cd you must buy will be at least $14.98 at the regular club price.

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  4. The more famous and oldest club is the BMG Music Service. This club allows members to receive 11 free CDs as long as they purchase one at regular price within a year of sign-up. Members must, however, pay shipping costs for each of the CDs they order (including the free ones), which is about two bucks apiece. A newer music club at the BMG store ...

    • Nothing in Life Is Free. Especially CDs
    • Inside The Belly of The Beast
    • When The Music’s Over
    • Turn Out The Lights

    CD clubs offered ever-shifting traps for all ages and tastes, the deadliest of which involved ordering and receiving free albums, not paying a thing, never canceling the subscription, then dropping off company radar. Once a given time passes, contract clauses spring to life, full price is charged for all free discs, a collection agency is assigned,...

    To keep costs low and profit margins high, CD clubs produced their own discs to sell, some apparently of questionable sound quality. Stereophileconducted a test in 1994in which top audio engineers repeatedly listened to both club and retail releases of the same albums, and indeed, they detected inconsistencies — different compression levels, stereo...

    By 2003, the unraveling had begun. In a class-action lawsuit, a U.S. District Judge dropped the hammer on CD club private defendants, for what CBS News called a “price-fixing conspiracy.” A $143 million settlement was dispensed to millions of buyers, in the form of 75% discounts on full-priced club discs…which required a membership to buy. The priv...

    BMG CD club was ultimately put to sleep in 2009 by its parent Columbia House group, who then succumbed to bankruptcy in 2015. In addition to schemesters and lawsuits, several clear factors led to their downfall. One painful legal caveat involved clubs having to wait from three months to a year before being permitted to sell an artist’s new release....

  5. Mar 10, 2009 · March 10, 2009. The BMG Music Service — the mail-order company famous for offering CDs at deals like “12 for the price of one” — has revealed in an e-mail to subscribers that they will ...

  6. Jun 14, 2019 · At their mid-1990s peak, Columbia House and BMG made a lot of money. According to The Recording Industry by Geoffrey P. Hull, music clubs paid between $1.50 and $5.50 for a CD, which they then sold for $16. He reports that if the clubs sold one out of every three discs, they'd make close to $8 in profit.

  7. The largest and oldest of the BMG music clubs is the BMG Music Service. This is the service most of you have heard of: 12 CDs for the price of one! Becoming a member of this great service is easy and convenient. First, you select seven free CDs from BMG's vast catalog of music. Then, you are only obligated to purchase one CD at regular price ...

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