Remember Columbia House? I convinced my parents to sign up in my name when I was nine.
Posted Jun 29, 2023, 10:27 PM UTC
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Pay the penny, get the 12, cancel, and next month they send you an even better bargain to grab and cancel. Did this over and over.
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I had BMG, it worked out to be a way better deal than Columbia House overall, I had it all figured. I had one of those huge binder case things that held like 300 CDs. Most of them from the club! It was fun to always get CDs in the mail randomly
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I also used BMG the way they intended. It was a damn good deal.
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Same, it was the one thing that looked like a scam and miraculously somehow wasn't. The one time I got a CD I didn't order, I just sent it back, NBD.
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i signed up multiple times and never paid for any. knew they couldnt come after a kid or i had hoped so and never did.
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The ones with the stamps of album covers were seriously top notch. The marketer that thought of that should be given an award. That person probably cost me a small fortune back then because doing the stamp selection was fun. Lol.
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I joined the DVD club for a while around 2002 when I got my first DVD player. The CD club probably would've ruined me financially and/or turned me into a hoarder
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I had a subscription when I was a kid too. I bought a few at full price but I don’t think I actually bought the number I was supposed to when I got the free ones.
I ended up returning the selection of the month a few times since they gave such a short amount of time to return that card saying you didn’t want it. If that happened I would just not open it and “refused-return to sender” it. All that would happen if you did that is they sent a letter saying you shouldn’t do that, but they still accepted the return.
Then the monthly catalog just eventually stopped coming, I’ve heard from others that they had theirs cancelled after returning the unwanted monthly selection a few times so that’s probably what happened. They just decided I wasn’t worth it anymore (fine by me, still got my CDs).
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I joined the CD deal around 2000 after I finished college and got my first job. All told it was pretty cheap with the offer at the time, and I ended up getting like 20 CDs for $30 I think.
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My dad had a subscription for Columbia House, I told my dad what I wanted, and usually I helped my dad order his CD’s for him, that way I would always get the extra CD’s, I wanted for me. Columbia House had DVD, NO just CD’s, and Tapes. Win - Win. For the best son around. 😀 Thank you Dad.
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This is how I ended up with Air Supply because I was 9 and thought it sounded like a cool name
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I signed up, got my free CD’s, purchases the ones I had to, then signed up a fake name to my house, got more free CD’s, a purchased the ones I had to. This is probably where most of my collection came from. Also they had a lot of cool shit, not just the popular stuff.
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This was the way to do it. Subscription in your name plus one in the name of every dog, cat, and goldfish in the house.
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I built my teenage CD collection for free thanks to Columbia House lol. Beaver Cleaver got himself wrapped up in the same thing but with records. Ward made him pay all of the money though. I couldn't believe they were doing this back in the 50s and 60s
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I was nine - had a paper route, cut lawns and shovelled snow so I actually paid for it all - but it was funny to get credit card applications and random junk mail in my name.
This is how I got my RUN DMC, Milli Vanilli, Tone Loc, Vanilla Ice and George Michael Cassettes.
I remember spending a lot of time in the back seat of a mini van listening to George Michael want your sex - there are like 3 parts - like three songs or like 15 minutes of George Michael wanting your sex on that faith record.
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Ad from late ‘87.
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I would give my parents my babysitting money and they'd write a check for me to send in.
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They had a Laserdisc club also. I used it and just wrote "return to sender" on the discs they sent later and finally they closed the account without me buying anything!
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I had a spreadsheet in college with my different alias that I’d “refer” to get more…think I ended up with over 150 in my first semester alone, for maybe 8 full price?
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Knowing what I know now i would have picked the records over cassettes!
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Hell yeah
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I scammed them four or five times!
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First 12 CDs are for a penny. The rest of them are full price and we have lawyers. Dammit!
Ha jokes on you, I’m a child and can’t enter into a contract
Yeah, they didn’t care they go after your parents
It worked for me. Never heard from them again
I used multiple fake names (including our dog’s name) and they just gave up also…
Columbia House was like: “12 CD’s for a penny! The rest are $185 dollars per month. You’ll shut the fuck up and take it because you’re still getting a CD every month and CD’s are all new and cool and you love them, and you’re likely underage and probably stole your Dad’s credit card to do this. Therefore you won’t want to get in trouble and you hope he just doesn’t notice. We know….it was just too tempting. There’s no number to cancel. Enjoy.”
You don't need a credit card. All you had to do was take the perforated card out of a magazine lol