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        There is a Lechmere sale this week on all CDs:
        
	        Marked price		Sale price
        
        	up to 12.99		 8.98  (up to 30% off)
        
        	13.99 to 15.99		11.98  (14 to 25% off)
        
        	16.99 to 17.99		13.98  (18 to 22% off)
        
        That's the way it is described in the sales brochure, and the
        employees were using the brochure to ring up CDs.  I don't know
        what happens for CDs marked 19.99, I didn't buy any of them.
        
        I beleive the sale ends 1 August 1987.
        					B.J.

    Say good-bye to your lunch money.
    
    kh_listening_to_a_brand_new_and_real_inexpensvie_feats_don't_fail_me_now.

    Worth noting...Lechmere will give rain checks for any CD that is currently
    out of stock.  I went last night to pick up a few that I've waiting
    to go on sale, namely Fresh Aire III and V by Manneheim Steamroller.  
    All they had in stock was Fresh Aire V and VI...so I picked up V 
    and got a rain check for III.

�        what happens for CDs marked 19.99, I didn't buy any of them.
        
         I don't know, but $18.99 -----> $13.98 on sale


			-jim-

   
    All CD's marked down... from cheapest up to 89.99.  
    
    I bought Hooligans for 23.98, reg 31.99.
    
    Did anybody else see the 'limited edition' Woodstock 'Master
    Tapes' on CD.  89.99 for two lousy discs, and they don't
    even say who's on it.
    
    Bill

    How about "Hot Rocks" by the Rolling Stones?  Before the
    sale they had lots of copies, now none (Nashua Store).
    Does anybody know what the original price was?  How
    much is that in sales price terms?
    
    I also noticed that some CD's were marked up for the sale
    from 15.99 to 16.99 (like some of the Oldies Collections).
    I think this is so they map to the $14 sale price instead
    of the $12 one.  Did anybody else notice this? (or what it
    "Just my imagination ...")

According to  the  cashier  on  Monday,  the  $19.99 cd's and other ones not
explicitly in a category on the list are 15% off.

						Rod Burr

Naturally, the first good CD sale in half a year happens while I'm in 
California on business.

Anyone know if Lechmere has a regular schedule for these across-the-board 
CD sales?


				Mark

        This Saturday only (22 August 1987), Lechmere is having a sale
        on all music (but who cares about anything but CDs?). 
        
        If you buy three items at their `low everyday price' then you
        get a forth item (not more expensive then the others) free. 
        
        I guess they think that some people need encouragement to buy
        music in quantities.  Not me, I find it hard to `just buy one'. 
        
        					B.J.

What really ticks me off is when they end a sale week with a special one-day 
sale.  It's OK to have a one-day sale on something that wasn't on sale during 
the week, but it's an insult to your customers when you drag them into the 
store early in the week for a markdown, only to mark it down further at the 
"end" of the sale.

Due to their better investment value, I decided earlier in this week to buy 
exclusively CD's when I buy new vs. used (if I sell for whatever reason, I 
lose less than when I buy new vinyl and try to sell it).  There's not that 
much I want that's still in print, and most are replacements for things I 
foolishly sold during a pre-moving-day over-zealous purge of my collection a 
few years back, but most are on a Warner/Atlantic/Elektra label.  So, I took 
advantage of the 20% sale this week and bought about seven CD's.  I could have 
saved 5% more by waiting until Saturday, getting one or two more CD's for the 
same price as what I bought.

I'll probably go Saturday anyway to pick up some Jethro Tull CD's (provided 
they have any; no one seems to want to carry them), which weren't part of the 
Warner/Atlantic sale, but I still feel burned and insulted.

There were no CD sales last week.  That would have been a more appropriate 
week to have a one-day sale.


				Mark

    
    	Lechmere policy is if the item you buy a month ago or less is
    at a lower price now then you bring in the receipt and get the
    difference.	 You can not go wrong.  Bring in the receipt for the
    seven disks and ask for the difference between the price you got
    them for and the price you could get them for.  Done.
    	I have done this several times at Lechmere.  Once I have even done
    this six weeks after I initially purchased the item.  Had to see
    a manager, but the manager said 'no problem.'
    	I guess Lechmere does not what you to hesitate to buy
    anything.   :-)
    	Lechmere also has the policy that you can return anything within
    one month, for any reason.  Sooo if they did not have the above
    mentioned policy they would be forced to do a lot of paper work
    and accounting for all of those people who would return things and
    then buy them again.  (to save the difference)
    
    Peter
    

    Re: .-1
    
>   ... policy .... return .... one month .... any reason ....
    
    Are you sure this is true of music items?  I would think
    that once you broke the seal, you could only return it
    in exchange for a new one of the same item.  Otherwise
    we could buy lots of CD's, take up to a month to tape
    them, then return them.

    
    
    	Of course for music the standard policy is exchange for only
    the same title, but they will not argue with the fact that
    you just got that disk for your sister and your brother got the
    same one for here...   Sooo you would like another title.
    	You can exchange anything.  Music of course makes them think,
    but they do want to be accommodating, so you can get away with it.
    I recieved two 'Get Close' CDs for my birthday
    both ended up getting opened, my mistake.  But with a big smile
    and a little persuation, I convinced them to let me get another
    title.  I have not ripped off music, and would not recommend taking
    advantage of Lechmere's concern for their customers.  I mentioned
    this policy because it makes buying CD players from Lechmere very 
    appealing.

    It sounds like the "4 for the price of 3" sale means you buy 3 items
    at Lechmere's "everyday low price", which is not the same as the
    sale price this week.  In other words, you might not save very much,
    if anything, by waiting 'til Saturday.

That was last Saturday.  Additionally, the Woburn store had a different policy 
than the other stores and applied the Atlantic/Warner sale as well!

As much as I spent Saturday, I don't feel bad because I averaged slightly less 
than $10 per disc, between Lechmere and Newbury Comics!


				Mark