Ar9Jim 6,055 Posted March 7 Share Posted March 7 Must have joined at 8-10 years old. 3 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RPA-1 Man 602 Posted March 7 Share Posted March 7 I fell for that scam. 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stereo_dog 418 Posted March 7 Share Posted March 7 Yep, lots of records and tapes from Columbia House. My parents were ready to wring my neck. 2 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kurt 1,390 Posted March 7 Share Posted March 7 (edited) I once got 12 albums for a penny using my cat's name. (For years afterward we got junk mail addressed to "Ginger" Schieding.) Once the time came for me to make the subsequently required purchases and I did not do so... the warning mails started coming....then phone calls. Finally, my mom answered one of the calls and asked them "did you know you made a contract with a 14 year old boy and his cat?". We never heard from them again. LOL. Edited March 7 by Kurt 5 1 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
4krow 5,077 Posted March 7 Share Posted March 7 Yes, and the stamps. Attach the ones that you want to the card! 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dadvw 2,806 Posted March 7 Share Posted March 7 I did that a couple of times......until we got a real record store.......grin 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Will Meyer 2,018 Posted March 7 Share Posted March 7 I liked them. Also BMG. I used to get their CD of the month; it broadened my exposure to different bands. I even did he reel to reel format. 5 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
davidc 309 Posted March 7 Share Posted March 7 My dad and I signed up quite a few times. It was fine as long as you purchased the expensive album and then canceled. It was still worth it. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Receiver2000 2,464 Posted March 8 Share Posted March 8 Yeah I remember Columbia House. Haven't thought about that in a long time. The first 10 albums for cheap was sweat. Then they started to shaft you on future purchases. I wonder how they ever made it. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
4krow 5,077 Posted March 8 Share Posted March 8 Why does this remind me of drug dealers. C'mon kid, the first one is free. 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
3M_Audio 880 Posted March 8 Share Posted March 8 I did Columbia house as a 12 or 13 year old. I was actually OK with it as I carefully looked at (and usually rejected) the next month's full price album. I think eventually they dropped me as I wasn't a profitable customer, lol 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Receiver2000 2,464 Posted March 8 Share Posted March 8 But wasn't the deal that once you accepted the cheap albums, you agreed to buy a minimum number over the course of a year or something? 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Receiver2000 2,464 Posted March 8 Share Posted March 8 And I wonder how many actually did that. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
davidc 309 Posted March 8 Share Posted March 8 1 hour ago, Receiver2000 said: But wasn't the deal that once you accepted the cheap albums, you agreed to buy a minimum number over the course of a year or something? Yes, the two problems were that the rest of the albums were really expensive, and the choice wasn't that great. If I remember, you had to choose the full priced monthly albums from a small list. Between Columbia House and BMG, I probably signed up 3-4 times over the years. Several times I just ignored the followup letters. I'm pretty sure CH dinged my credit back in the 80's. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cring08 149 Posted March 8 Share Posted March 8 When I was a minor, I must have ordered a dozen times or more, and never paid! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zenith4me 1,386 Posted March 9 Share Posted March 9 When I was in high school many of my friends did the Columbia House/BMG thing. We would trade records between us. I got to listen to artists I wouldn’t have chosen. It worked for us. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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