Friggen BMG Featured Selection

Eyesore wrote:

The second one? You lie and say you never got a second one, man! That's their mistake. You keep it and tell them they're insane.

What about if it is the new rouse and they do charge him for the CD?

I may be too cynical, but I do believe such companies are capable of coming up with such "marketing" tricks - they send you two copies, you return one, assume the other one is due their mistake and keep it, and voilla! you got billed

Yeah, those clubs are pretty annoying. It IS a great deal though when you sign up. 7+ CDs and all you pay is S&H?

Where they get you is with their jacked up "club prices" and limited selection, but really, you still make out like a bandit if you were able to find enough CDs you wanted for your intial free order.

Monthly selections are definitely a hassle though, but I was pretty good about getting online and shutting those down before they got out their warehouse.

On a semi-related note, I had a lot of problems with Columbia House DVD, if I forgot to say no, of course I'd get it, but I'd go through the motions of putting "refused-- return to sender" on the package and shipping it back. But they would never take it off my account. They said they never got it back. I had to complain about this quite a few times and I ended up getting the charges taken off.

I fulfilled my obligations years ago and cancelled the account about 2 years ago, but to this day every now and then they'll send me a bill saying I owe them like $70+ for even MORE DVDs they sent me. I've told them multiple times I don't have those DVDs, I didn't want those DVDs, I returned those DVDs, and I'll never pay them for them. But they just won't listen.

I bailed out of the Columbia House DVD club as soon as I fulfilled my obligation to them a few years back. Occasionally they still call me on the phone asking if I'd be interested in re-joining and I always say "no." If they ask why I tell'em "because I now have two kids around the house so I never have any time to WATCH the DVDs I already have, I sure as hell don't need to buy any new ones!"

i was in CH dvd club & all was well, until i noticed they charged my credit card for an automatic shipment that i have just declined online. i still had my decline confirmation email. so i called them up & they removed the charges promptly (it was still "processing"). since they never shipped it out to me, i didn't have anything to return. i canceled my membership on that same phone call. i figured, if they screw up once, they are bound to screw up again. i don't need the hassle of keeping my eye on them constantly.

I don't know how it is nowdays but about 11-12 years ago I did both BMG and Columbia House and after fullfilling my obligation, I cancelled it because the CDs were too damn expensive ($2 or $3 more than what I could get elsewhere, not to mention S&H).