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

[David Lennick]

I was tossed out of a New York record store 40+ years ago for just WRITING DOWN the number of an album I wanted to price elsewhere (or try and get as a promo).

 

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> From: busterdog at mac.com
> To: 78-l at klickitat.78online.com
> Date: Thu, 3 Jun 2010 21:00:57 -0700
> Subject: [78-L] Comparison shopping, was: Russel's "Country Music Records"
> 
> 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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