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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.
Now, Columbia House has become a part of BMG Direct! With this merger, Columbia House DVD Club continues to dominate the DVD clubs world, but BMG CD music clubs are the only ones left that are worthwhile. Old Columbia House members were migrated to BMG Music.
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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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....
Columbia House was an umbrella brand for Columbia Records ' mail-order music clubs, the primary iteration of which was the Columbia Record Club, established in 1955. The Columbia House brand was introduced in the early 1970s by Columbia Records (a division of CBS, Inc. ), and had a significant market presence in the 1970s, 1980s and early 1990s.
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 ...
Mar 11, 2002 · Received 0 Likes on 0 Posts. Columbia House has the SAME EXACT (11 or 12 for 1) deal as BMG. All you have to do is sign up with CDHQ.com, a "sister" company of Columbia House that has the same exact catalog as Columbia House. It was a division set up by CH to spefically compete with BMG.
