Post by Arthur December 4, 2010 (11 of 19)
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TROLL-Buster said:
I would suggest you try purchasing items by choice of music rather than price.
What makes you think he's not?!
I've made up a wish-list of over 200 items. It's cumbersome to go through that list regularly to search by price. If you could go from item to item it would be better, but instead you have to back out to the wish-list, choose the next item, etc.
The way it used to be at Amazon, you could pull up keyword "SACD", sort by price "lowest to highest" and boom you had the titles. Scrolling through was MUCH easier than doing the same thing on this site.
You want our choice to be for music? He didn't say he was going to buy Charlotte Church just because it was 99 cents! Most of us don't get to hear the full albums any more before we buy, so we're always buying on repertoire, faith in the artists or labels from their reputations, our past experience with them, or reviews.
I bought my first Suzuki Bach Cantata disc because it was found in a scan of super-cheap Amazon titles: I wasn't familiar with him, I was collecting the Gardiner cycle, so I wasn't sure if I wanted to spring for another series, but it was getting good reports here, so I made the plunge. Wouldn't you for $1.75?! And now I've bought about a half dozen more!
I'm on a budget, so if I have $40 to spend, the first $18 is going to go for the top item on my wish-list. I could then buy one more disc, or use Dutchman's method and find 2 or even 3 items from my wish-list all costing altogether the $22 I have left. I call that being smart.
Besides, if I only bought the items at the top of my wish-list, my collection would not have the variety it now has!
So I'm with Dutchman on this one.
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Post by zeus December 4, 2010 (12 of 19)
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Arthur said:
I've made up a wish-list of over 200 items. It's cumbersome to go through that list regularly to search by price. If you could go from item to item it would be better, but instead you have to back out to the wish-list, choose the next item, etc.
You don't. Just select the vendor (at top) and it will query all items in your list for the lowest new price. Using the links provided also contributes to the upkeep of this site.
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Post by Arthur December 4, 2010 (13 of 19)
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zeus said:
You don't. Just select the vendor (at top) and it will query all items in your list for the lowest new price. Using the links provided also contributes to the upkeep of this site.
Zeus:
Thanks, I always use the links, but was never aware of how the vender choice worked. It's great! (now if only Amazon will also include "used" prices, we'll really be somewhere!)
But just so I'm sure I'm doing it right, if I want to buy a piece of computer equipment, for example, on Amazon, I come here, find an item available on Amazon, click the link, then when I'm on Amazon I search for he item I really want. Do you get credit for that, or am I wasting my time?
Bret
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Post by zeus December 4, 2010 (14 of 19)
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Arthur said:
But just so I'm sure I'm doing it right, if I want to buy a piece of computer equipment, for example, on Amazon, I come here, find an item available on Amazon, click the link, then when I'm on Amazon I search for he item I really want. Do you get credit for that, or am I wasting my time?
If you start by clicking on the generic links on the page below, SA-CD.net gets credit ... no matter what/how many items you buy.
/support
If you go to a vendor site directly (by typing in the URL or using a browser bookmark) it doesn't.
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Like Arthur, I would use the method he described and would find some discs that I found I might not otherwise purchase unless given the cheapest alternative, and definitely not Charlotte Church. And of course, I use the links here.
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Post by dbmay75 December 6, 2010 (16 of 19)
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I find entering the artist and adding "dsd" at Amazon.com (US) specifically works best. Hope this helps some of you.
Happy Holidays,
Dan
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Post by Arthur December 6, 2010 (17 of 19)
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dbmay75 said:
I find entering the artist and adding "dsd" at Amazon.com (US) specifically works best. Hope this helps some of you.
Happy Holidays,
Dan
I've just tried your tip - not as good as before (some CDs sneak in), but definitely better than nothing. Thanks!
Bret
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dbmay75 said:
I find entering the artist and adding "dsd" at Amazon.com (US) specifically works best. Hope this helps some of you.
Happy Holidays,
Dan
It certainly does work the best now. Thanks.
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Post by dbmay75 December 11, 2010 (19 of 19)
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You're welcome
Dan
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