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How to Save Money and Avoid Owning CDs You Hate |
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Seven Tips to Save Money and Avoid Owning CDs You Hate: 1. Buy a book of album reviews. If you get a good one, the book will pay for itself by preventing you from buying just a couple of lousy albums. In addition, these books make great reading, with background on the artists and albums. Since tastes vary, some books list artists that are similar, to help you decide if you will like the music. You can find specific information about these books at the following link on www.base40.com. 2. Sell or trade all those CDs you don't like or never listen to. The best trade deals are among friends, where you can often do a one-for-one swap. You can also sell those CDs online, using various web sites that cater to this, such as Half.com or SecondSpin.com. You can also take your list to a used music store and let them indicate what they will pay for each. If you have cataloged your collection using CD Trustee, this is easy! You can print various reports of your collection, or extract a trade list to a file and e-mail it to the online sites. 3. Read online customer reviews of an album before purchasing. Amazon.com and others feature these. 4. Join a record club like Columbia House. With their constant "free" offers, the typical price for a CD comes to about 9 dollars, including their rather high "shipping" charges of almost 3 dollars per disc. They have many variations on their monthly offers, but they all seem to work out to the same price of around 9 dollars when you order more than one disc at a time. This is still much better than the typical price at your local store, plus tax. Columbia House now offers memberships that DO NOT require you to reply each month to avoid being shipped the "Selection of the Month", and you still get 10 or so "free" albums (plus shipping) when you join. 5. If you join a record club, use their web site to select your "free" albums (and your regular selections) from their entire catalog, not just from the small collection indicated in their mailings. 6. To sell or trade your CDs, you really need a list of what you own. You don't want to write down a list of all your albums, do you? Neither do your friends. That is why you need CD Trustee! It will do all of this tedious work for you. Check it out on the web at www.base40.com 7. Ever buy a second copy of a CD you already own? Ever buy a CD to get a song you already have on another album? Use CD Trustee to automatically catalog your collection, and never waste money buying duplicates again. You can easily search for any text contained in a song title, album title or artist name, and CD Trustee will show you all albums containing that text. Check out CD Trustee at web site www.base40.com
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