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Congratulations, and thanks so much for the anniversary sale. It's a great deal and made me purchase a great deal.
Though my list is decidedly on the Americano side, still quite a snapshot of just some of the range of this fine label.
The Comfort of Strangers
Delirious
FX2
Fear
Sunflower
A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum
Santa Claus: The Movie
China Moon
The Masque of the Red Death
Partners
Crazy People
L'Assoluto Naturale
A Time of Destiny
What's the Matter with Helen?
The Pope of Greenwich Village
Even with the euro to dollar conversion, worked out to $16 per title - including a couple of multi-cd sets. What a deal.
And how nice to be able to remember Ken Thorne with a purchase of one of his highest-profile gigs (Forum).
Thanks again.
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For those that haven't yet bought it, PICK UP Santa Claus The Movie 3 disc set NOW NOW NOW NOW NOW! Heck of a great score!
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Will The Two Faces Of January be coming back into stock before the sale ends?
What are FSM'ers going to buy? 
I was contemplating:
LA MONACA DI MONZA - Morricone
FIN DE SEMANA AL DESNUDO - Abril
VIZI PRIVATI, PUBBLICHE VIRTU - De Masi (Would like to have the superb opening track)
MARCIA TRIONFALE - Piovani
Final selection at checkout:
THE COMFORT OF STRANGERS - Badalamenti
THE GAMBLER - Fielding
Definitely a great Sale, 35% off and free postage with every six discs purchased is a wonderful offer from Quartet Records one of the very best labels!
I already have a large number of the Quartet releases and my selection this time was:
Piccioni/Sette cadaveri per Scotland Yard
Morricone/La Monaca di Monza+La Califfa
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Jul 20, 2014 - 10:38 AM
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w-dervish
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Quartet made the sale announcement on the 7/7/2014. Announcement says the sale lasts two weeks. Therefore the sale ends TODAY, 7/20/2014.
In any case, I got my order in and paid via Paypal, which tacked on $5.17 to convert from Euros to USD. What irks me is that they tell you what the conversion rate is AND what the total is, but unless you calculate it out you don't know their adding in a currency conversion fee. I remember contacting them about this a couple of years ago and was told YES they add a fee. So why isn't it shown on the page? They should be upfront about this. And I'd rather not pay it, of course. But it is what it is... and Paypal should let people know they're adding it!
I don't know if my browser had anything to do with my problem, but I was using Google's Chrome browser when I wasn't redirected to the Paypal site to pay for my order. So I tried IE and that worked. Although if I had tried Chrome again maybe it would have worked? Who knows? Anyone else complete an order using Chrome?
I stopped using IE because whenever I do a dialogue box continually pops up telling me that Microsoft Word is going to be installed. I cancel the installation, but it doesn't cancel. It asks me to insert a CD-ROM next. Then, when I cancel that, it says it needs to undo what it's done already to back out of the installation I never told it to do! And it keeps doing this OVER AND OVER. I Googled for a fix but could not find one. That is when I switched to Chrome... and the problem went away. Until today when I opened IE and then it happened again.
Ordered Santa Claus The Movie 3-disc because everyone is raving about it and I am a Henry Mancini fan. Although I don't really care for holiday themed scores. I relistened to my 1-disc version of the score... and it's OK. I don't know. Is the 3-disc one a lot better? Hopefully there isn't a LOT of score (that isn't on the one disc version) with traditional holiday music interpolated into it.
BTW, is it just me or did anyone else notice that 35 percent off the Euro price is not the same as if these discs were 35 percent off from a US retailer? I mean, I previously purchased a number of these from retailers located here in the US, and the price is $19.99. 35 percent off that price would make the CDs $12.99 each. Yet, even after the discount, when Euros are converted to dollars, these same CDs ended up costing approximately $14.90 each. Plus I paid about 40 cents each for the foreign transaction fee. So I calculate that it worked out to about 25 percent off a 19.99 USD price... and for some reason the Santa Claus set was about 23 percent less.
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Quartet made the sale announcement on the 7/7/2014. Announcement says the sale lasts two weeks. Therefore the sale ends TODAY, 7/20/2014.
In any case, I got my order in and paid via Paypal, which tacked on $5.17 to convert from Euros to USD. What irks me is that they tell you what the conversion rate is AND what the total is, but unless you calculate it out you don't know their adding in a currency conversion fee. I remember contacting them about this a couple of years ago and was told YES they add a fee. So why isn't it shown on the page? They should be upfront about this. And I'd rather not pay it, of course. But it is what it is... and Paypal should let people know they're adding it!
I don't know if my browser had anything to do with my problem, but I was using Google's Chrome browser when I wasn't redirected to the Paypal site to pay for my order. So I tried IE and that worked. Although if I had tried Chrome again maybe it would have worked? Who knows? Anyone else complete an order using Chrome?
I stopped using IE because whenever I do a dialogue box continually pops up telling me that Microsoft Word is going to be installed. I cancel the installation, but it doesn't cancel. It asks me to insert a CD-ROM next. Then, when I cancel that, it says it needs to undo what it's done already to back out of the installation I never told it to do! And it keeps doing this OVER AND OVER. I Googled for a fix but could not find one. That is when I switched to Chrome... and the problem went away. Until today when I opened IE and then it happened again.
Ordered Santa Claus The Movie 3-disc because everyone is raving about it and I am a Henry Mancini fan. Although I don't really care for holiday themed scores. I relistened to my 1-disc version of the score... and it's OK. I don't know. Is the 3-disc one a lot better? Hopefully there isn't a LOT of score (that isn't on the one disc version) with traditional holiday music interpolated into it.
BTW, is it just me or did anyone else notice that 35 percent off the Euro price is not the same as if these discs were 35 percent off from a US retailer? I mean, I previously purchased a number of these from retailers located here in the US, and the price is $19.99. 35 percent off that price would make the CDs $12.99 each. Yet, even after the discount, when Euros are converted to dollars, these same CDs ended up costing approximately $14.90 each. Plus I paid about 40 cents each for the foreign transaction fee. So I calculate that it worked out to about 25 percent off a 19.99 USD price... and for some reason the Santa Claus set was about 23 percent less.
Sorry, but you are wrong, we don't charge any fee or comission for the conversion. That's is a Paypal matter far from us.
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