Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site ptsfc.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!mhuxr!ihnp4!zehntel!dual!ptsfa!ptsfc!rjw From: rjw@ptsfc.UUCP (Rod Williams) Newsgroups: net.music.classical Subject: Re: record society info needed Message-ID: <250@ptsfc.UUCP> Date: Mon, 14-Jan-85 15:31:09 EST Article-I.D.: ptsfc.250 Posted: Mon Jan 14 15:31:09 1985 Date-Received: Tue, 15-Jan-85 02:32:51 EST References: <240@pyuxt.UUCP> Reply-To: rjw@ptsfc.UUCP (Rod Williams) Organization: Pacific Bell, San Francisco Lines: 25 > Does anyone out there in netland have any >experience (good or bad) of The International Preview Society? Yes - my SO has got many records from them - mostly boxed sets. They appear to be the original pressings - nothing on the records or boxes to indicate a special pressing - and the quality is indistinguishable from store-bought. They have a large selection with frequent additions - mostly classical, some *pops*. Their *regular* prices are a bit on the high side - particularly when you add in postage&packing - but when you consider their *bonus coupons* (given when you buy at regular price) and frequent special offers (usually 50%-off deals) - it seems to work out well. The big drawback - common to all those record clubs - is the fact that you have to send back your postcard before a certain date or you automatically get the current *default* record. Personally, I much prefer shopping in a record store - mail-order just doesn't satisfy my consumerist cravings (:-)), and besides, I'm now shopping for CD's, which the record clubs don't yet seem to be aware of! -- Rod Williams "...uh...now what I was going to put here... dual!ptsfa!ptsfc!rjw ...um...er...ah...will this do instead...?"