[78-L] Comparison shopping, was: Russel's "Country Music Records"

[buster]

iPhone users can also use a $2 app called RedLaser to scan any item  
with a barcode and comparison shop local stores as well as online,  
right from the app.

Sent from my iPhone

-- Buster
Busterdog at mac.com

On Jun 3, 2010, at 8:55 PM, Michael Biel <mbiel at mbiel.com> wrote:

>>> Mal and everyone else -- Have you guys checked Amazon????????????
>>> There are loads of new copies for less than $20 even counting
>>> shipping costs.  Mike Biel
>
> From: DAVID BURNHAM <burnhamd at rogers.com>
>> Mike, you're killing me! I just paid over $100 for it at the ARSC  
>> book table,
>> (although mine does have that rare orange "Bluebird" label on the  
>> cover).  db
>
> In the back of my mind I was trying to remember if you had bought a
> hardbound or paperback copy from Kurt. It is the paperbound copies  
> that
> are at these prices. And you can consider that I also bought a  
> hardbound
> copy when it was first published, never thinking there would be any
> possibility that it would come out paperbound.  But I did get a pre- 
> pub
> discount, but I don't remember how much.  But I must have paid over  
> $50
> or $60.
>
> As you (and others) have noticed, Leah and I work together as a team.
> One of our techniques is that if one of us is book or record shopping
> alone, if we wonder if we have found a bargain, we call the other one
> and have them check on-line.  We have done this countless times and
> sometimes found that we spotted a great bargain, but many times we  
> found
> that it could be gotten cheaper on the web.  When I had to get a new
> phone in Jan, I got a data phone for the first time and now can check
> web sites while I am shopping if either Leah is with me or if she is  
> not
> near a computer herself.  She has an iPod, and if the store has Wi-Fi,
> she also can check herself.  Occasionally we have used a display
> computer in a store like Best Buy to check on the price of a DVD we  
> have
> seen in that store!  They've lost a few sales because of it!  So it is
> not only in the Silent Auction where we have our strategies.
>
> So I do recommend that any of you with dataphones set up a shortcut to
> the usual suspect websites to do price checks when at the stores.  Of
> course that doesn't count if you are shopping for 78s or most LPs!!!
> But it does count for old and used books.
>
> Mike Biel  mbiel at mbiel.com
>
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