The Super-Duper Cheap Bargains Thread

[Lethevich]

I believe that was because the big sellers use bots to match or undercut the prices of other retailers, so when one screws up it creates a domino effect.

[Scarpia]

I believe that was because the big sellers use bots to match or undercut the prices of other retailers, so when one screws up it creates a domino effect.

Seller name is the same on amazon.co.uk as it was on amazon.de.  A person or a bot is listing the item after it has already been sold, I presume.

...and now it has vanished from Amazon.co.uk as well.

[canninator]

I believe that was because the big sellers use bots to match or undercut the prices of other retailers, so when one screws up it creates a domino effect.

Really? What would stop me someone unscrupulous from

1. Register as a ghost vendor
2. Identify the item you want cheap
3. Advertise it under your ghost company at bargain price
4. Wait for a bot from a big company to lower the price
5. ? ? ?
6. Profit

[The new erato]

Really? What would stop me someone unscrupulous from

1. Register as a ghost vendor
2. Identify the item you want cheap
3. Advertise it under your ghost company at bargain price
4. Wait for a bot from a big company to lower the price
5. ? ? ?
6. Profit

Seems like we have established a business model for cheap CD aquisitions!

[AnthonyAthletic]

Great Super-Duper Bargain : £19 delivered. 

Great Heads up!!

[asin]B000GYI2U0[/asin]

The Canadian Amazon Ring Cyle 

Ordered 23rd March, received yesterday 28th March.

And no whiff of Customs!!!!!

Cheers

[Scarpia]

Really? What would stop me someone unscrupulous from

1. Register as a ghost vendor
2. Identify the item you want cheap
3. Advertise it under your ghost company at bargain price
4. Wait for a bot from a big company to lower the price
5. ? ? ?
6. Profit

That works, except someone may order your non-existent copy and you will have to cancel and refund the order.  I suspect Amazon has surveillance systems in place that will detect this sort of scam and cancel your marketplace account before you get too far with it.   

In any case, I sell on marketplace and employ various strategies.  Sometimes someone keeps undercutting me by a penny.  So I lower the price dramatically and hope the other seller's copy sells for the absurdly low price, then raise mine back up.  Sometimes it backfires and my copy sells for an absurdly low price.

[listener]

I notice the Beethoven 87-disc box, from Cascade,not from Brilliant, at $Cdn.26.99 which is about €18, roughly.  No annotations, etc. might be useful for filling gaps for the sake of completion rather than repeated listening...  at amazon.ca   
[asin]B000PC6GR4[/asin]
use the Canada link at the bottom of the page, the US price is a hefty $200 more!
Shipping cost is included to addresses in Canada too!
comparison of contents Cascade/Brilliant collections at http://www.mozartforum.com/VB_forum/archive/index.php?t-3450.html

[AnthonyAthletic]

I notice the Beethoven 87-disc box, from Cascade,not from Brilliant, at $Cdn.26.99 which is about €18, roughly.  No annotations, etc. might be useful for filling gaps for the sake of completion rather than repeated listening...  at amazon.ca   
[asin]B000PC6GR4[/asin]
use the Canada link at the bottom of the page, the US price is a hefty $200 more!
Shipping cost is included to addresses in Canada too!
comparison of contents Cascade/Brilliant collections at http://www.mozartforum.com/VB_forum/archive/index.php?t-3450.html

Interesting for those gap fillers.  I have the 60cd set of Masterworks BMG/Sony which is a good one to have.  That was a super duper bargain a few years ago at £14 delivered, sadly gone up manyfold in price since.

I notice the Canada Amazon site has the Lindsays 8cd Beethoven Quartets for cad $8.99.  Picture says 8cd set but info says 1cd.....hmmm ?

[listener]

I notice the Canada Amazon site has the Lindsays 8cd Beethoven Quartets for cad $8.99.  Picture says 8cd set but info says 1cd.....hmmm ?

Reading the fine print.... Beethoven Quartets by Dvorak!   8 tracks listed, maybe some confusion in the mind of the data entry clerk.

[Brahmsian]

Great Super-Duper Bargain : £19 delivered. 

Great Heads up!!

[asin]B000GYI2U0[/asin]

The Canadian Amazon Ring Cyle 

Ordered 23rd March, received yesterday 28th March.

And no whiff of Customs!!!!!

Cheers

Excellent set Antoine, I really love it.  Just keep in mind it doesn't come with a libretto, but there are several librettos viewable on-line for free.  Hope you enjoy it, the Prelude to Act I Die Walkure is so fist-pumpingly powerful. 

[AnthonyAthletic]

Excellent set Antoine, I really love it.  Just keep in mind it doesn't come with a libretto, but there are several librettos viewable on-line for free.  Hope you enjoy it, the Prelude to Act I Die Walkure is so fist-pumpingly powerful.

Hope its worth every penny    This is my first Cycle on CD.  I do have all 4 libretti, printed them off a few years ago.  I've never heard the ring on cd, but have seen the Boulez and Barenboim DVD's.  Siegfried had me a little stretched at times, when I was first experiencing it, now after seeing it a couple of times you appreciate how beautiful the work is.

[AnthonyAthletic]

Choral

[asin]B00014EIOE[/asin]

£1.82p

7cd box set, this old chestnut is still doing the rounds at under £2.  I notice that its $50 at some places in the USA 

Obviously not up there with the greats, but a worthy listen.  Beneficial to any newbie, perhaps.  I bought this for the Stainer Crucifixion (a work I had previously not heard).

Disc 1 St Matthew Passion BWV244 (1727) Part 1 (Jean-Sebastian Bach)
Disc 2 St Matthew Passion (Part I Cont. / Part II) (Jean-Sebastian Bach)
Disc 3 St Matthew Passion (Part II Cont.) (Jean-Sebastian Bach)

Disc 4 Messiah, HW56 (Part I) (Frederic George Handel) (Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus)
Disc 5 Messiah (Part II) (Frederic George Handel) (Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus)

Disc 6 The Crucifixion (Sir John Stainer)

Disc 7 Requiem in D minor, K626 (Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus)

Sir Charles Mackerras, Sir David Willcocks, Jane Glover, Stanley Vann

[Brahmsian]

Hope its worth every penny    This is my first Cycle on CD.  I do have all 4 libretti, printed them off a few years ago.  I've never heard the ring on cd, but have seen the Boulez and Barenboim DVD's.  Siegfried had me a little stretched at times, when I was first experiencing it, now after seeing it a couple of times you appreciate how beautiful the work is.

Siegfried had me enthralled when I first heard it.  So much so I listened to it twice the same day (Solti/WP).  The ominous Prelude to Act II frightened the beejesus out of me the first time I heard it, along with the battle between Siegfried and Fafner.  Tremendous stuff! 

[Orpheus]

For beethovenians addicted only...



http://www.amazon.ca/Complete-String-Quartets-Antonin-Dvorak/dp/B00013YN5O/ref=pd_rhf_p_img_1

Orpheus 

[Willoughby earl of Itacarius]

For just 3 euro's this could be yours, at JPC de

[eyeresist]

You're right about CD Universe. During a long time CD Universe was my favorite store in the USA, but then they began to charge some crazy sh. & h. costs and I opted for other stores.

I stopped using CD Universe after I realised they were charging shipping on the individual CDs, rather than by package size or weight. So if you ordered a 30-CD box, you would be paying an individual charge on each disc, however compact the set.

Then they changed their search mechanism, so it's not even worth browsing now.

[ammar]

Only for Bach addicted (like me!)



http://www.amazon.de/gp/offer-listing/B000RZOR2U/ref=dp_olp_new?ie=UTF8&qid=1301338324&sr=1-1&condition=new

Orpheus 

Ah, Orpheus 

The above set arrived in the post earlier today - £34 including shipping (I pulled the trigger on the Amazon.de listing without even checking to see if there was an Amazon.co.uk equivalent).

[Scarpia]

One picture speaks a thousand words:



You're talking about a different box set. 

Is there a contents listing anywhere to be found?

[Antoine Marchand]

Is there a contents listing anywhere to be found?

Reply #1082 of this thread:

The Vivarte Box set...:

Contents are:

1 Bach The Works For Lute In Original Keys And Tunings -Lutz Kirchhof
2 Bach The Works For Lute In Original Keys And Tunings -Lutz Kirchhof
3 Bach 3 Gambensonaten / Sonate A-Dur -Anner Bylsma / Bob Van Asperen
4 The Harpsichord In The Netherlands -Bob Van Asperen
5 Bach Secular Cantatas Bwv 206 & 207A -Frieder Bernius
6 Mozart Missa Longa -Philipp Cieslewicz / Carsten Muller / Tolzer Knabenchor
7 Mozart Divertimento K.334 & K.247 -L'Archibudelli
8 Mozart Divertimento K.563 -L'Archibudelli
9 Schubert Stteichquintett D.956 - Vera Beth / Lisa Rautenberg / Steven Dann / Judy Gatwood / Anner Bylsma
10 Schubert Symphonies Nos. 5 & 6 -Bruno Weil
11 Schuts Psalmen Davis Swv 22-47 -Frieder Bernius
12 Schuts Psalmen Davis Swv 22-47 -Frieder Bernius
13 Bach 6 Suites For Cello, Bwv 1007-1012 -Anner Bylsma
14 Bach 6 Suites For Cello, Bwv 1007-1012 -Anner Bylsma
15 Italia Mia -Paul Van Nevel / Huelgas Ensemble
16 The Flute In Dance And Dream -Lutz Kirchhof
17 Beethoven Sextets, Quintet, Duet -L'Archibudelli
18 Schubert Symphonies Nos. 7 & 8 -Bruno Weil
19 Beethoven String Trios Op.9 Nos.1-3 -L'Archibudelli
20 Febus Avant! -Paul Van Nevel / Huelgas Ensemble
21 Gombert Music From The Court Of Charles V -Paul Van Nevel
22 Airs De Cour French Court Music From The 17th Century -Lutz Kirchhof
23 Vivaldi The Four Seasons / Sinfonia "Al Santo Sepolcro" Concerto Op.3 - Charlotte Nediger / Tafelmusik
24 Haydn Symponies Nos. 41-43 -Bruno Weil / Tafelmusik
25 Haydn Symponies Nos. 44, 51 & 52 -Bruno Weil / Tafelmusik
26 Weiss Lute Works Vol. 1 & 2 -Lutz Kirchhof
27 Weiss Lute Works Vol. 1 & 2 -Lutz Kirchhof
28 Vivaldi Sonatsa For Violoncello & Basso Continuo -Anner Bylsma
29 Beethoven Archduke & Ghost Trios -Anner Bylsma / Vera Beth / Jos Van Immerseel
30 Handel Concerti Grossi, Op. 3 -Jeanne Lamon / Tafelmusik
31 Motets Of The 17th Century -Niederaltaicher Scholaren
32 Haydn The Last 4 Piano Trios -Anner Bylsma / Vera Beth / Robert Levin
33 Boccherini Cellokonzerte C-Dur Und D-Dur -Jeanne Lamon / Tafelmusik
34 Boccherini Cello Sonatas -Anner Bylsma / Kenneth Slowik / Bob Van Asperen
35 Mozart Clarinet Quintet; Clarinet Quartet; Kegelstatt Trio -L'Archibudelli
36 Northen German Organ Music -Gustave Leonhardt
37 C.P.E Bach Complete Fluet Sonatas -Barthold Kuijken / Bob Van Asperen
38 C.P.E Bach Complete Fluet Sonatas -Barthold Kuijken / Bob Van Asperen
39 Franchomme Chopin Grand Duo Concertant -Anner Bylsma / Lambert Orkis / Kenneth Slowik
40 Schbert Maesse 5 / Deutsche Messe -Bruno Weil
41 Organ Music In France And Southern Nertherlands -Gustave Leonhardt
42 Haydn Die Schopfung (Oratorium) (Gesamtaufnahme) -Bruno Weil / Tafelmusik / Toelzer Knabenchor
43-44 Agricola Ein Geheimes Labyrinth -Paul Van Nevel / Huelgas Ensemble
45 Beethoven Sonaten Fur Violoncello Und Klavier -Anner Bylsma / Jos Van Immerseel
46 Beethoven Sonaten Fur Violoncello Und Klavier -Anner Bylsma / Jos Van Immerseel
47 Mozart Requiem -Bruno Weil / Tafelmusik
48 Schubert Piano Trios 1 & 2 -Anner Bylsma / Vera Beth / Jos Van Immerseel
49 Vivaldi Eleven Concertos -Anner Bylsma / Jeanne Lamon / Tafelmusik
50 Haydn Die Letzten Drei Streichquartette -L'Archibudelli
51 Handel Feuermusik -Jeanne Lamon / Tafelmusik
52 Telemann Paris Quartets 1-12 -Gustave Leonhardt
53 Telemann Paris Quartets 1-12 -Gustave Leonhardt
54 Telemann Paris Quartets 1-12 -Gustave Leonhardt
55 Utopia Triumphans (Musik Der Renaissance) -Paul Van Nevel / Huelgas Ensemble
56 Bach Vioinkonzerte -Jeanne Lamon / Tafelmusik
57 Bach Brandenburg Concertos -Jeanne Lamon / Tafelmusik
58 Bach Brandenburg Concertos -Jeanne Lamon / Tafelmusik
59 Brahms / Schumann Cello Sonatas. Op. 38 / Op. 99 5 Stucke Im Volkston, Op. 102 -Anner Bylsma / Lambert Orkis
60 Handel Wassermusik -Jeanne Lamon / Tafelmusik

[prémont]

Thanks, Antoine, I see, that I already own almost all the items, which might have caught my interest.