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| 830.1 | | PDVAX::P_DAVIS | Peter Davis (aka SARAH::P_DAVIS) | Wed Jul 29 1987 12:41 | 9 |
| Thanks, Andy. Do you have an address for their mail order dep't.?
There are a quite a few Tower Records stores in the U.S., and the
one planned to open in Boston is supposed to be the largest record
store in the world. However, they've been prevented (by court action)
from importing non-U.S. releases. I wonder, therefore, if their
U.K. store will ship these to U.S. customers.
-pd
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| 830.2 | Where exactly? | TLE::KLING | | Wed Jul 29 1987 17:47 | 11 |
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RE: .0
Is Tower in London good on everything (i.e. classical, jazz,
new age, international) or primarily pop/rock/punk?
Could you post the address (and nearest intersection) of Tower
in London, please. I'm going to be there in a month and would
like to have a look. Thanks.
Will
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| 830.3 | | COVERT::COVERT | John R. Covert | Wed Jul 29 1987 18:09 | 17 |
| > Could you post the address (and nearest intersection) of Tower
> in London, please.
Right smack dab in the middle of Piccadilly Circus. Can't miss it. (Well,
actually on the west side of the intersection just south of Oxford Street.)
Tower records is very good for everything; but I was just in their Philadelphia
store on Sunday; I wouldn't say the prices were all that wonderful -- but they
do have a reasonable number of sales. Not much was on sale in Philly on Sunday,
but I did get a wonderful Nimbus CD of Mahler's "Des Knaben Wunderhorn" for
$12.99.
There was also someone from Columbia Records marketing there that I gave some
grief about Copyguard. He claimed to have nothing to do with it, even though
I pointed out that marketing oughta care if noone will buy their CDs anymore.
/john
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| 830.4 | | LESLIE::ANDY | CSSE M.E. for Digital's OSI Products | Thu Jul 30 1987 10:22 | 27 |
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1 Piccadilly Circus
London WC1
England, UK.
Open 9am to midnight (2pm to 5am Boston time), closed Sundays.
Their selection: magnificent. I could go bankrupt...
UK Tower Prices for CD's are around �10-11. (about $17) They also
sell CD singles priced between �2.50 and �6.00 ($1.60 to the pound,
you work it out...)
Air Mail for 1 CD to the States will cost you $6 approx, I'd expect
prices didn't vary much after that. By surface mail is cheaper but
*slow*.
They will take Amex, Visa, Master Charge cards. Didn't ask about Diners
Club. You can give them your card number on the phone and away it goes
to you.
If you want to order anything in the next few days, I'm next flying
over on Thursday 6th August, so you might want to give them my home
address and I can hand carry your CD(s) over. They MUST reach me by
Wednesday at the latest though. If you want to take advantage of my
offer, mail me asking my home address (I don't intend publishing it
in a notes conference).
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| 830.5 | | PDVAX::P_DAVIS | Peter Davis (aka SARAH::P_DAVIS) | Thu Jul 30 1987 12:55 | 7 |
| I don't know about Tower, but at least one store in London (Music
Discount Center, I think) offered to pay the shipping costs to the
U.S. from the VAT. This VAT is a hefty 15% tax, which should only
be paid if the CDs are purchased by someone in the EEC. So, if
you take advantage of Andy's generous offer, you will almost certainly
have to pay the VAT, whereas you might be able to beat it if you
have Tower ship the discs directly to you.
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| 830.6 | | SEDSWS::EDMUNDS | So this is an ellipsis... | Thu Jul 30 1987 14:25 | 14 |
| > They will take Amex, Visa, Master Charge cards. Didn't ask about Diners
> Club. You can give them your card number on the phone and away it goes
> to you.
> If you want to order anything in the next few days, I'm next flying
> over on Thursday 6th August, so you might want to give them my home
> address and I can hand carry your CD(s) over.
Note that the credit card companies will *not* allow shops to
send goods to any address other than the cardholders address - this
is for security reasons, otherwise anyone who knew your card number
- or found your card - could order what they wanted for themselves.
Keith
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| 830.7 | | QUARK::LIONEL | We all live in a yellow subroutine | Thu Jul 30 1987 14:36 | 9 |
| Re: .6
That is hardly true - otherwise nobody could mail-order gifts!
However, I have found that some mail-order firms claim this
restriction - Crutchfield did to me. Other firms have no problems
sending me merchandise at different addresses with the same card.
I have no explanation as to why there should be such variations.
Steve
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| 830.8 | | LESLIE::ANDY | CSSE M.E. for Digital's OSI Products | Thu Jul 30 1987 17:32 | 13 |
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To be correct, they should ask
A) your address
B) The address to which you wish it sent
then send a copy of the receipt to a) if b) is different.
I used to phone up a florist in Maynard to send flowers to a young lady
of my acquaintance (pure and innocent relationship, honest) and they
didn't insist on sending them to me! They did, however, ask my home
address and get it checked, with a receipt in the post to me.
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