On-line Stores & Sellers

[Brahmsian]

Amazon Canada marketplace seller - Music4sure Ca - ships from Israel.

99% rating.  Anyone with experience with this 3rd party seller?  Has a new Bruckner/Celibidache/Munich set $37.34 CDN plus shipping.

Thanks!

[North Star]

  Yeah, I told them and they said they'd do something.  And then I just told them again and they said I'd hear back in 3 days--which are pretty much up
   I'm not that worried about it.  I didn't spend much and actually found the set online.  I'll see what happens

Any developments?

[stingo]

I received an email from primephonic.com, an online classical retailer new to me. Does anyone have any knowledge of or experience with them?

[Holden]

Bought two CDs from online seller CDBaby. Payment went through OK and got confirmation. The item has now been despatched and this wonderful e-mail informed me of the fact.



Thanks for your order with CD Baby!
(1) Bruce Hungerford: Pianist Bruce Hungerford: Last Recital
(1) Bruce Hungerford: Pianist Bruce Hungerford Plays a Live Beethoven Sonata Recital


Your CDs have been gently taken from our CD Baby shelves with sterilized contamination-free gloves and placed onto a satin pillow.

A team of 50 employees inspected your CDs and polished them to make sure they were in the best possible condition before mailing. Our world-renowned packing specialist lit a local artisan candle and a hush fell over the crowd as he put your CDs into the finest gold-lined box that money can buy.

We all had a wonderful celebration afterwards and the whole party marched down the street to the post office where the entire town of Portland waved "Bon Voyage!" to your package, on its way to you, in our private CD Baby jet on this day, December 2, 2015.

We hope you had a wonderful time shopping at CD Baby. In commemoration, we have placed your picture on our wall as "Customer of the Year." We're all exhausted but can't wait for you to come back to CDBABY.COM!!

Thank you, thank you, thank you!

Sigh...
We miss you already. We'll be right here at http://cdbaby.com/, patiently awaiting your return.

[The new erato]

I think they should have brought in Bruce Hungerford to kiss and bless the CDs before packaging.

[North Star]

I think they should have brought in Bruce Hungerford to kiss and bless the CDs before packaging.

And Beethoven too.

[Dancing Divertimentian]

Bought two CDs from online seller CDBaby. Payment went through OK and got confirmation. The item has now been despatched and this wonderful e-mail informed me of the fact.



Thanks for your order with CD Baby!
(1) Bruce Hungerford: Pianist Bruce Hungerford: Last Recital
(1) Bruce Hungerford: Pianist Bruce Hungerford Plays a Live Beethoven Sonata Recital


Your CDs have been gently taken from our CD Baby shelves with sterilized contamination-free gloves and placed onto a satin pillow.

A team of 50 employees inspected your CDs and polished them to make sure they were in the best possible condition before mailing. Our world-renowned packing specialist lit a local artisan candle and a hush fell over the crowd as he put your CDs into the finest gold-lined box that money can buy.

We all had a wonderful celebration afterwards and the whole party marched down the street to the post office where the entire town of Portland waved "Bon Voyage!" to your package, on its way to you, in our private CD Baby jet on this day, December 2, 2015.

We hope you had a wonderful time shopping at CD Baby. In commemoration, we have placed your picture on our wall as "Customer of the Year." We're all exhausted but can't wait for you to come back to CDBABY.COM!!

Thank you, thank you, thank you!

Sigh...
We miss you already. We'll be right here at http://cdbaby.com/, patiently awaiting your return.

I've ordered from CDBaby before (and been satisfied) but never have they rained anything like this on me! You must really be special, Holden!

[stingo]

Has anyone tried primephonic? I'm trying to get the free sampler, but my antivirus is not liking the downloader.

[NikF2]

Could anyone tell me, please, what the options are when buying from Amazon when in Denmark? The amazon.dk appears to redirect to the co.uk, regardless. Is it simply a case of choosing the nearest Amazon store(s)?

[listener]

It looks to me as if amazon.dk does not exist, there's no link to it on any of the other amazon pages.

[NikF2]

It looks to me as if amazon.dk does not exist, there's no link to it on any of the other amazon pages.

Yeah, when I use the URL it just redirects to the UK site. But I thought it might differ depending on location - so that the nearest version/country would be the destination.

[aligreto]

Could anyone tell me, please, what the options are when buying from Amazon when in Denmark? The amazon.dk appears to redirect to the co.uk, regardless. Is it simply a case of choosing the nearest Amazon store(s)?

Oh sh*t!! He is naked in a Danish hotel hallway after locking himself out of his room and he wants to buy a bathrobe 

[NikF2]

Oh sh*t!! He is naked in a Danish hotel hallway after locking himself out of his room and he wants to buy a bathrobe 

I thought Danes were cool with being naked in public and all that? 

[Brian]

Somehow I missed this when it happened in 2015, but Naxos bought ArkivMusic.

[mc ukrneal]

Anyone familiar with Clic Musique? They have some good prices on some harder to find labels. Do they ever have sales on labels or sitewide sales?

This is their site: http://www.clicmusique.com/index.php

[Que]

Anyone familiar with Clic Musique? They have some good prices on some harder to find labels. Do they ever have sales on labels or sitewide sales?

This is their site: http://www.clicmusique.com/index.php

They are a distributor, so the plus us that they have  a lot of stuff that is hard to get elsewhere.
I haven't seen any sales. They also sell through Amazon (UK).
You would think buying from them directly would be cheaper, especially if a order involves multiple items.
But no.... I've found that their Amazon price on a particular item is often significantly lower, and their own shipping rates are not very advantageous either.

So, if you find something interesting on their website - check Amazon first before deciding where to place your order. 

Q

[Spineur]

Anyone familiar with Clic Musique? They have some good prices on some harder to find labels. Do they ever have sales on labels or sitewide sales?

This is their site: http://www.clicmusique.com/index.php

I use them.  Best prices for Supraphon.  Got some opera on dvd/blu-ray from them. Some of the stuff they sell can be cd that are moving slowly through other channels and they can sell at discount.  So one has to pick carefully (as often).  Excellent on delivery within France.

[mc ukrneal]

Thank you both! They have good prices on the Acte Préalable label.

[Todd]

Recently, in the Recordings That You Are Considering thread, I posted a number of Korean market titles that interested me, and asked if anyone knew of any Korean market sellers with a broad catalog.  I did some snooping, and I found one: www.yesasia.com. 

As expected, there are many enticing recordings; the list of recordings I'm considering has jumped from six to dozens.  The site lists 307 Korean market titles, and while a lot are garbage compilations, they list dozens of core rep recordings from all the majors and some regional labels.  Filtering can be done by country (Japan, Korea, China).  The Japanese listings are garbled, though I already have multiple sources I use in Japan.  The Chinese ones appear slim, at least to my taste, for now, though I suspect that will change.  One bonus - international shipping is free.  I'm going to hunt some more because some titles are not available there.  I also revisited Han Books, the vendor that I bought the original big box format set of Kun Woo Paik's LvB cycle, and they have some items, but the selection is much smaller.

[Spineur]

Recently, in the Recordings That You Are Considering thread, I posted a number of Korean market titles that interested me, and asked if anyone knew of any Korean market sellers with a broad catalog.  I did some snooping, and I found one: www.yesasia.com. 

As expected, there are many enticing recordings; the list of recordings I'm considering has jumped from six to dozens.  The site lists 307 Korean market titles, and while a lot are garbage compilations, they list dozens of core rep recordings from all the majors and some regional labels.  Filtering can be done by country (Japan, Korea, China).  The Japanese listings are garbled, though I already have multiple sources I use in Japan.  The Chinese ones appear slim, at least to my taste, for now, though I suspect that will change.  One bonus - international shipping is free.  I'm going to hunt some more because some titles are not available there.  I also revisited Han Books, the vendor that I bought the original big box format set of Kun Woo Paik's LvB cycle, and they have some items, but the selection is much smaller.

Dear Todd

You could have a look at gmarket, the largest online marketplace in Korea

http://www.gmarket.co.kr/

or more conveniently its automatically translated version

http://global.gmarket.co.kr/Home/Main

It isnt so difficult to buy from them, the shipping cost are reasonable (my wife keeps buying Korean clothes, which are quite trendy).  I almost bought a Cowon Plenue 2 through them, but didnt do it in the end as I got concerned with the import tax.  But CD are sufficiently inexpensive so these taxes are not due, at least in europe.  I made a search Kim and found four CDs available.  This would be my preferred route.