Columbia House, BMG, Both, or Neither?

[Randy Parker]

Heard them mention Columbia House on KSR this morning & it made me curious about BGPers. Did you ever join Columbia House? BMG? Both of them? Neither?

 

I was a member of both.

 

Good times. :lol2:

[Jumper_Dad]

It was a great deal if you could control yourself. Get your freebies then buy the cheapest 4 or 5 mandatory purchases as quickly as possible and cancel the subscription. I didn't always follow that advice though and got stuck with a few cassettes I didn't return in time and had to buy.

[rjs4470]

Heard them mention Columbia House on KSR this morning & it made me curious about BGPers. Did you ever join Columbia House? BMG? Both of them? Neither?

 

I was a member of both.

 

Good times. :lol2:

 

Did both, multiple times. I had amassed a large cd collection by my mid 20's by signing up, making the required purchase, then canceling, and doing it over, and over again. I probably repeated the cycle 10 times with both clubs. It was always a great day when your 10 (or 12 or however many they offered for a penny) arrived.

 

My mother also got most of her record collection through Columbia House. And I had several shady friends that used phony names to get free cd's.

[Randy Parker]

Did both, multiple times. I had amassed a large cd collection by my mid 20's by signing up, making the required purchase, then canceling, and doing it over, and over again. I probably repeated the cycle 10 times with both clubs. It was always a great day when your 10 (or 12 or however many they offered for a penny) arrived.

 

My mother also got most of her record collection through Columbia House. And I had several shady friends that used phony names to get free cd's.

 

I didn't do it as many times as you did, but I joined them several times.

 

I also used my home address & college address to sign up twice at one time.

[CincySportsFan]

Columbia House, probably 2 or 3 times.

 

And CD's or cassettes? Ha! I think the only option offered the first time I joined were records!

[B-Ball-fan]

Pretty sure I did BMG in the early days of CD's where I started like 6 contracts at the same time. I can't recall exactly how I got away with that but after paying for the 1 disc on 6 different contracts I ended up with about 30+ CD's for the price of 6 then promptly cancelled each of the contracts.

[OlDog75]

Back when dinosaurs roamed, I joined Columbia House to get my LPs and 8-tracks.

[MJAlltheWay24]

Neither and I have no idea what you're referring to haha!

[nees1212]

I had completely forgotten about that. I did the Columbia House multiple times.

[Jim Schue]

Oh yeah. Lots.

[WESTSIDE]

I joined BMG a few times and got a few friends to join as well so I could get even more free cds.

[mcpapa]

Columbia House once or twice. I still have a pile of 78s.

[jvdfc]

A couple of times with each. Vinyl and then CD's. The good ol days!

[Jim Schue]

Columbia House once or twice. I still have a pile of 78s.

 

Was it called Colvmbia Hovse then?

[rjs4470]

Columbia House also had a division that did VHS/DVD's, and there was a company that did a similar "club" with books. I never did the movie club, but did do the book club a couple of times.