Oh Mr Amazon, with this cheap box set / bargain item, etc...

Same, I only have Stuttgart on CD as the LP was way too expensive at the time for me.

If the Brighton set on vinyl doesnt come then I'll be happy for the stuttgart set and will just buy the Brighton CD

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Yeah, sigh…

cunts. They made a mistake. Shops have to honour mistakes.

They don't, not really...

Shops here did. Trading standards. My dad was a manager of a shop for decades. They had to honour it. Online companies get treated differently from brick & mortar shops.

Well, let's say you find a Can Brighton priced at £13 in a shop. You take it to the counter, they say ah no that's a mistake it's £40. That's allowed under trading standards.

Well, let's say you find a Can Brighton priced at £13 in a shop. You take it to the counter, they say ah no that's a mistake it's £40. That's allowed under trading standards.

really !?
have things changed ?
many many years ago (i.e. about 30), i was with a friend who spotted Bowie Stage 2lp set for a couple of quid - way cheaper than it should have been, so he picked it up and took to the counter.
he was told it was mispriced etc etc.
but my friend stood his ground and said he would only pay what the price on the label.
pretty sure they relented and he got it for the label price.

When I worked in a record shop in the 90s, the manager refused a customer wanting to buy a mispriced item. He maintained that prices displayed are an "invitation to treat" (there's a Wikipedia page on it) which means it's an invitation to the customer to make an offer, not a binding offer that the shop has to honour.

as i said, my experience was a long time ago, so, it is more than likely that the rules have changed since then.
i have never had the opportunity to test such a situation.

that said, i once picked up a Young Gods second hand cd in a non-charity shop ..
thought it said £5 on the label.
bloke puts it through at £35.
i question it with a look of total bafflement.
he shows me the label.
i look a LOT closer, and sure enough there is a VERY faint 3 next to the 5.
needless to say i told him to shove it (politely of course ... ), i aint paying that.
he then did the discogs thing.
yeah, i paid a fiver.
however, that was for a second hand cd and someone clearly trying it on with folks that dont care re ££ (tis that type of shop).

The rules haven't changed its just that shops understand them now.

I had a similar back in ooh 1989 or so, a mispriced album and a staff member who absolutely knew he didn't have to sell it. Tbf, I didn't really want it, certainly not at full price...

Xpost yeah it's all subject to negotiation

I found a reel to reel tape of Smiley Smile a few years ago for £6 - the guy said "I know who priced this... and he's a cunt" but he let me have it anyway

11 CDs of the complete Bob Marley & the Wailers for €13 from Amazon Germany (plus p&p, obv):

https://www.amazon.de/Bob-Marley-Wailers/dp/B08JZK6FN5

Yeah, I got one about a year or so ago. There were a bunch of box sets I jumped at but not played as yet. The others were the Prince 1999 set, and ‘every showaddywaddy single on separate cds plus two’

Just grabbed the Deluxe Edition of Lou Reed’s New York for $35ish on Amazon US—seemed like a steal for three CDs, a DVD, and a double LP.

The Garth Brooks 7xLP set was $15 with Free Shipping a month ago. I picked it up, because, what the fuck why not? You know they're losing money on this. It's now up to $133. what the fuck? are they selling any at that price?

Do they absorb the loss. Just remembering that supermarkets pass it on to the actual producer like a reduction is passed onto the manufacturer not the point of sale. Not sure that's bad with a mainstream corporation but an indie firm may not be best served by it.
Also had somebody run through how little one made by selling marketplace with Amazon a couple of months back. Which was a bit of a downer since it was something I had bought a lot from. Better to go direct to seller elsewhere it seems where possible.

Amazon UK currently seem to be offering import copies of The Avant-Garde series box set for £20? Says it will take about a month to arrive, but at that price I can wait.

Knew it had to be too good to be true:

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ugh Paul, that's weird because it actually espatches from Amazon US. but if you look up the item on the US website, it's $195(!)

anyway, seemed rude not to order it, thanks WF!

Yes thanks WF. This is available in my local independent for £90. I’ll spend the money there on other stuff I’m sure.

that's weird because it actually espatches from Amazon US

I noticed that, too. I was going to order two! I may have it shipped to a friend over there. Even if it then costs them $30 to mail it to me, I'd still be saving a lot. Very tempted.

Awesome, thank you thank you thank you Detective Lucerne! By the way when I was searching for this the fucking Rolling Stones new album kept appearing at the top of the search, wtf's up with that?

Not to kill anyone's buzz, but a few people on the h0ffman boards have reported going for that £20 deal and receiving something completely different in the post, normally an album called Between Here & Lost by Love and Death. The box set seems to be scarce already – it was listed as available on the DG webstore the other day, but has now gone out of stock again. I would advise interested parties to snap it up wherever they see it.

haha oh shit

Interesting anagram, when I searched for this box set earlier today on Amazon US, the second result was that Love and Death album, but the attached photo was of this box set.

I'm still an Avant-garde Box Set half full kind of punter, but apologies if I've steered ppl the wrong way. At least we will be able to start an authoritative thread on Between Here & Lost by Love and Death.

well worth the gamble i think, and easy to get a refund if it is the wrong thing

love and death are christian metal btw, but they also do a devo cover on that album...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dPS-IlxHOQs

I'm just hoping I don't end up with the new Rolling Stones album.

Ah, looks like it got fixed. Or sold out...

My order for the Avant Garde boxset ordered on October 20th is due to show up by Thursday. It hasn't been dispatched yet though, which makes me wonder if I will get one. Any lucky receivers?

Exactly the same for me. Due to arrive on Thursday, not yet despatched.

Ditto. Given up on it tbh.

We've been done up like a kipper, lads.

Just had an email from Amazon telling me my Avant Garde box set has been dispatched and is due to arrive Jan 5th.

... wow, I'll go and check my order.

... "We'll e-mail you when available."

... ffs

UPS delivered my parcel early, while I was down south for Christmas, so yesterday I had to collect it from a newsagent in Govan. My heart sank when I saw the packing note - Between Here & Lost (10th Anniversary Edition) Love And Death Audio CD - then rose when I saw the yellow Deutsche Grammophon logo peeking out - success! A mint condition Avantgarde series box set still in its shrink-wrap. I savoured the unseemly elation of a really good score - and hope others who ordered experience the same.

Didn't know this until I read the sleeve notes: "Three Stockhausen albums, which were part of the original Avantgarde series, have not been included in this edition as we respect the preference of the Stockhausen estate to abstain from such re-release." Huh, what a rip-off :-)

Fuckin' Stockhausen estate

I bought a house in the Stockhausen estate

Amazon have emailed me to say they've cancelled the order. Cnuts.

Ach, me too though tbh I could do with the money right now

I could do with the Avant Garde box set right now.

Sorry to hear this. I can only think I got my order in slightly ahead of yours - or was lucky enough to land a sympathetic picking+packing elf.

I was thankfully able to order it when sales were first announced last fall

Me too, ordered it as soon as it was announced and had no problems receiving it.

Yes well done but you weren’t trying to get it for twenty quid on Amazon

Bingo