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This is what drove me out of the soundtrack collecting hobby. I'm not willing to pay double the cost just for shipping. Occasionally I buy from Amazon but that's it.
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Somehow I don't think so, since film score collectors are fanatics who will pay any price and bear any burden in the pursuit of limited edition boutique label CD releases.
I don't think you quite realise what a big change this has been and mixed with poor exchange rates it is becoming extremely cost prohibitive. I'm as big a fanatic as anyone here but my buying from the specialty labels has dropped to probably a quarter of what it was to just the essential titles that I really, really want. The prices are just becoming too high to justify, I feel bad for the labels as absolutely none of this is their fault. I see you're based in the US though, maybe you just don't care as it doesn't affect you.
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Mr Phelps, you are wrong as an international customer who would buy lots of CDs from US, I have had to curb my purchases. Just as buying patterns become habitual, likewise refraining from a purchase becomes the norm to the point where you realise, “You know what I don’t need this anymore”. The hike in international costs was the main reason I cut back, ultimately leading to me stop buying from US altogether.
The example provided by davefg and ArjanOudekerk more than substantiate other people experiencing the same. And as mentioned by Brianmcb it affects all collectors in the long run as the labels have a reduction in support which makes it harder to keep the doors open.
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Jan 21, 2018 - 3:41 PM
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Octoberman
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It's getting crazy.
And it's almost like, as internet retail skyrocketed and brick & mortars went bust, no one saw this coming.
This is one of the reasons I almost never order online.
When I get score CD's from our beloved boutique labels, I get one of the 2 local used CD shops to order things in for me. They order new stock on a regular basis.
When it comes, I pay whatever the price tag says--not having to know what the owner had to pay for getting a shipment in--which is proportionately far less that the 1 or 2 discs I'd have to pay to have shipped directly to me.
Another good reason is that if a CD I had ordered in for me comes damaged, it's the store owner's problem, not mine, because I haven't paid for it yet. I just wait until another copy come in.
(Yeah, I know--the waiting is the hard part. I can cope.)
Here's a thing I don't understand, though--sometimes La-La Land and FSM products (and others, too) are in the actual used racks.
Who the deuce would get rid of them? That's mental.
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