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It cost less than $0.59 to make a cassette and $1.25 to make a CD, so any price they offered above that was pure profit. Columbia House and BMG took advantage of people who didn't want to go shopping at a retail store, by offering new releases for a pretty high price.
Apr 21, 2003 · The BMG sale right now that I'm freaking out about averages $ 7.19 a disc. Go for BMG. Better sales, you only have to buy 1 disc. Easy online shopping. I'm in both and I like BMG way better. I haven't gotten a chance to cancel Columbia House yet. bartels76, Apr 21, 2003.
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.
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Aug 12, 2015 · During the 1980s and 1990s Columbia House and its primary competitor, BMG—the two companies actually merged in 2005, and BMG shuttered its music club in 2009—ran hustles so effective they ...
Feb 25, 2008 · Columbia House is now strictly a DVD club. BMG and yourmusic.com are pretty much in same in terms of ownership and selection and markings on the CDs, but run differently. As long as the track listing is the same (which it usually is), I think the mastering on CDs is the same as the retail version circa BMG disc became available.
This is one reason our favorite pick for the CD music club offering the best deals is BMG's Yourmusic.com. The CDs are always $6.99, there are no shipping charges and you are under no obligation to buy a specific number of CDs.
