dvw@petrus.UUCP (Dan V. Wilson) (09/08/85)
[This line for the message munchers] I just received in the mail a flyer from an outfit called Andre Perrault International. They are a mail order classical record supplier. This flyer advertises what looks like the entire Denon and Orfeo CD catalog at $9.99 apiece (plus $1.95 for the first CD, $.85 thereafter for postage and such)! This is the lowest price I have seen anywhere for classical CDs. Has anyone on the net dealt with these people before? They work by getting your order before one of two deadlines, batching them together and sending a big order to the manufacturer, and then sending you your records about 6 or 8 weeks (so they say) after the deadline. If you miss the second deadline, all bets are off. The deadlines on this flyer are 9 September and 7 October 1985. They say they'll take plastic, and are at P.O. Box 5629, Virginia Beach, VA 23455, 800 833 2400 outside of Virginia. This looks like a cheap way of getting the almost complete Denon Beethoven quartet cycle that has been discussed in this group lately. Don't flame at me if these people are turkeys; I've never ordered anything from them and have no affiliation with them. I'm just relaying what is in their brochure. I plan on getting several CDs from them. Dan Wilson bellcore!dvw
silber@uiucdcsp.Uiuc.ARPA (09/17/85)
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silber@uiucdcsp.Uiuc.ARPA (09/17/85)
As Regards to Andre Perr
silber@uiucdcsp.Uiuc.ARPA (09/17/85)
In regards to Andre Perrault---
They run a very high-class organization. I have ordered recordings from
them on several occasions and in all cases save one recieved my package within
a month after the mailing. On one occasion, I was informed about eight weeks
after the deadline that the recordings had been damaged on their way to the
U.S., and that they were being reordered. I recieved them soon after.
Perrault is very good about change of address and phone in orders.
(You really can reach them at any time.) Their offerings are constantly
changing, so a record label you see this month may not return for a year.
Many of the recordings they offer are not normally available in the U.S. or
even in England (at least not in any of the Penguin guides), and their featured
label of the month often offers obscure gems at low price. (Examples, Straus
conducting his Alpine Symphonie or Bartok playing Mikrokosmos)
As a whole, I must recommend them as being the best mail order record
service I know of.
A. Silberman