The Super-Duper Cheap Bargains Thread

[Will Sheard]

Question re the Handel Edition.
Has anyone received an estimated shipment date for their order?

No. This is what my account says:

"Delivery estimate: We need a little more time to provide you with a good estimate. We'll notify you via e-mail as soon as we have an estimated delivery date."

I pre-ordered my copy on August 9.

[Karl Henning]

No. This is what my account says:

"Delivery estimate: We need a little more time to provide you with a good estimate. We'll notify you via e-mail as soon as we have an estimated delivery date."

I pre-ordered my copy on August 9.

I'm sure there was huge demand.  I was very nearly tempted, myself 

[albanberg]

The Seattle Symphony's recent recording of Ives, Carter & Gershwin on its own label is currently priced at $2.78 at Amazon US (not a MP) seller:

http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00IXWIHIO

[albanberg]

The Seattle Symphony's recent recording of Ives, Carter & Gershwin on its own label is currently priced at $2.78 at Amazon US (not a MP) seller:

http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00IXWIHIO

Of course that should have been "(not a MP seller)"

[mc ukrneal]

The Handel edition on Amazon now appears as unavailable. No price or anything - just unavailable.

[Elgarian]

The Handel edition on Amazon now appears as unavailable. No price or anything - just unavailable.

Aha! The plot thickens! The game's afoot! You know my methods, Watson ... etc, etc ...

[kishnevi]

The Handel edition on Amazon now appears as unavailable. No price or anything - just unavailable.

Amazon UK lists it in stock for £94.99,  with Marketplace sellers starting at £76.65
http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/offer-listing/B0106UFMP6/ref=dp_olp_new?ie=UTF8&condition=new

[Jo498]

The $20 price tag was an extreme outlier from the beginning. All other sellers asked something > 70 $/EUR/GBP.

[albanberg]

The $20 price tag was an extreme outlier from the beginning. All other sellers asked something > 70 $/EUR/GBP.

FWIW, my Amazon order for the Handel Edition is still live - they have not canceled it as of yet, just haven't given a ship date yet. In fact, it's gone down in price to $19.99. I suspect that they will eventually not only cancel all outstanding orders but delete the item from the site and then create a new page for the item with the correct price. I seem to remember that that's what they did some years ago when they had the complete Dvorak Symphony cycle under Neumann for some absurdly cheap price and then never fulfilled any of the orders. But in any event, that hasn't happened yet with the Handel.

[Jo498]

In the past I got several times items for prices I suspect were mistakes or at least at the border between a super sale offer and a pricing mistakes. (E.g. two years ago I got the Decca Box with Britten conducting other people's music for less than EUR 20.) But there were also some cases were orders were canceled with an apology that there had been pricing errors.

In the early 2000s there was one occasion later dubbed on rec.music.classical.recordings "the great amazon feeding frenzy" when dozens of EMI box sets were priced like single discs or so (at amazon.de or uk). I am not sure anymore about the details, but I think I got the Barenboim Mozart concerti and the Tennstedt Mahler symphonies during that "error sale". But they realized the pricing error after some time and many orders were cancelled.

[Karl Henning]

I seem to remember that that's what they did some years ago when they had the complete Dvorak Symphony cycle under Neumann for some absurdly cheap price and then never fulfilled any of the orders.

Point of clarification:  That Neumann/Dvořák cycle was indeed priced at $7.99, and mine was only one of many such sets received by GMGers.

[Gurn Blanston]

Point of clarification:  That Neumann/Dvořák cycle was indeed priced at $7.99, and mine was only one of many such sets received by GMGers.

I got mine, too, practically a freebie. I listened to 2 disks just last weekend in fact, what a bargain! 

[bigshot]

Third party sellers are more likely to cancel than Amazon. I only had one occasion where Amazon changed the listing to make it a single DVD after originally listing it as a box set. I complained and when I showed them my email receipt, they coughed up the box set. But be careful. They can change the picture that shows up in your receipt after the fact. They tried to do that in my case, but I had already screen capped it.

[Ken B]

Point of clarification:  That Neumann/Dvořák cycle was indeed priced at $7.99, and mine was only one of many such sets received by GMGers.

Indeed. I got mine. AND I got the digital version free with it!

[albanberg]

Indeed. I got mine. AND I got the digital version free with it!

Ah well, maybe I was the only one to have their order canceled.

[Will Sheard]

FWIW, my Amazon order for the Handel Edition is still live - they have not canceled it as of yet, just haven't given a ship date yet. In fact, it's gone down in price to $19.99. I suspect that they will eventually not only cancel all outstanding orders but delete the item from the site and then create a new page for the item with the correct price. I seem to remember that that's what they did some years ago when they had the complete Dvorak Symphony cycle under Neumann for some absurdly cheap price and then never fulfilled any of the orders. But in any event, that hasn't happened yet with the Handel.

You'll be relieved/frustrated to learn that that statement about the Neumann is not true. I received my copy for the absurdly low price you are talking about. :-p

Ergo, I still hold out hope for the Handel.

[Will Sheard]

Ah well, maybe I was the only one to have their order canceled.

You have to hope that these things come in...ahem...cycles. 

[flyingdutchman]

I got my Neumann/Dvorak as well at the 7.99 price.  Just had to wait for a little bit for it to come, but still got it.

[Mirror Image]

I'm not into Handel, but, just out of curiosity, did anyone receive a shipment notification from Amazon about their box set being shipped? It seems to have been released today is currently offered for $80 and up from various MP sellers. Amazon, however, doesn't show a listing or as being in-stock.

[Ken B]

I'm not into Handel, but, just out of curiosity, did anyone receive a shipment notification from Amazon about their box set being shipped? It seems to have been released today is currently offered for $80 and up from various MP sellers. Amazon, however, doesn't show a listing or as being in-stock.

Nothing so far.

Here,s hoping your date's a Bach fan!