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08-11-2015, 03:30 PM
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Columbia House Files for Bankruptcy
Brings back memories from childhood... used to love opening up my 12 CD's for a penny....
Columbia House owner files for bankruptcy Surprised they made it this long....
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08-11-2015, 04:03 PM
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Naw, I remember it as twelve 8-tracks.
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08-11-2015, 04:05 PM
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I remember abusing the hell out of those 12 cds for a penny or whatever ti was...using different names...spellings...slightly different street addresses...etc.
These days of computers make that impossible to do... So thank you for all the free music Columbia House |
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08-11-2015, 04:20 PM
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And BMG Music was a good one. |
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08-11-2015, 04:23 PM
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I would do it multiple times and send back the bill marked "deceased". Rinse and repeat.
I had quite a music collection.
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08-11-2015, 04:27 PM
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Let's do some business!
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Between BMG and CH, I got 60 new CDs in a two week timeframe, LOL. I had quite the collection.
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08-11-2015, 05:37 PM
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Flashback, did Columbia & BMG back in the day. Now can't remember the last time I bought a full CD.
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08-11-2015, 05:51 PM
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Glad to know I wasn't the only one abusing - I mean, USING - the Columbia House thing. Tape a penny to the postcard!! LOL
Oh the names I would come up with, all with the same address.....LOL Amazing they would send package after package to the same address. They must've thought I had a whole house full of music lovers. 
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08-11-2015, 06:04 PM
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Funny, the wife and I were talkin' about Columbia House a few months ago - wonderin' how they ever made a profit with all the fraud that went on back in the day.
They must've had a fair quantity of legit customers who actually bought full-price tapes/CDs after they got the freebies. |
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08-11-2015, 07:37 PM
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08-11-2015, 08:34 PM
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How the fuck Did they make money?
What was their model? |
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08-11-2015, 09:02 PM
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Every Columbia House CD/tape/LP had a 'Columbia House' logo on it. This meant they were technically 'promo' items. Which meant the artists did not receive royalties on any Columbia House (or BMG) CD/tape/LP sent out.
Then, each month you would get the latest Columbia House CD/tape/LP and then be charged $16.95 (maybe more) til you canceled. It was 100% profit for Sony and BMG. Maybe now because of the cost of manufacturing and shipping the whole operation is a loss.
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08-11-2015, 09:21 PM
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08-11-2015, 09:23 PM
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God only knows how many accounts I had at both BMG and Columbia House....
By the time I moved over to CDs, the local music store had a "dollar" bin for used CDs. I stocked up. Still have all of those CDs, nearly a thousand of them. They are all loaded up on my iPod now.
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08-11-2015, 10:04 PM
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I know all this because I tried to sell my Columbia LPs one day (years ago) and the guy went through them all, rejecting them because they were 'cheap Columbia House versions' and not the 'real thing'. LOL
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08-11-2015, 10:16 PM
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It's 42
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Sign of the times but they had a 60 year run.
Adapt or die ... |
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08-11-2015, 11:21 PM
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Great article and documentary about the shady Columbia House operation - how the FTC allowed this to go on for decades is beyond me. I'm guessing the owner of XPics must have been a Columbia House customer - same tactics.
People weren't even getting the real product, Columbia House had their own manufacturing factories. And musical artists got paid shit, Columbia House had licensing deals with the music labels, when Columbia House sold a million CD's of an album it wasn't like selling a million CD's through brick and mortar stores. Four Columbia House insiders explain the shady math behind ?8 CDs for a penny? · Expert Witness · The A.V. Club
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08-11-2015, 11:26 PM
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08-12-2015, 07:30 AM
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wow like someone said can't believe they made it this long
i vaguely remember them, was it always a penny or a dollar? did it change when rates of postal service went up?
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08-12-2015, 07:42 AM
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 thieves candy would be proud
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