Britannia - Mail order

After spending a lot of money buying overpriced cds and dvds and becoming an elite member (free postage WOW) I was shocked to find that they had used my bank details to illegally take two sums of money from my bank account and expected me to send them a statement to prove that they had done it before they offered me a refund - what a cheek!!! They then sent me a cheque without a covering note to apologise - how rude!!! I will not be using this service again, elite member or not!! ...

Ladynutmegan 23.11.2007 (18.11.2007)
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I first signed up with Britannia sometime around 1998, things weren't too bad, with the introductory offer and so on..... then things went kind of downhill from there. They send you a monthly recommended recording thing with their catalogue once a month, which you have to place a cross in a box and post back if you DON'T want them to send you it...... that'll set you back around £4.44 a year in Stamps. Often they will also send additional recommendations ...
...couldn't give a flying **** about, such as Harry Potter or Bridget Jones or whatever.... so that's probably another £1.85 in Stamps. That means so far they've set you back £6.29 in telling them you don't want them to send you an item you don't want. However, things do not stop there...... this system is rather fallible, and 4 or 5times a year they will ****-up and send you the sodding CD / CASSETTE / DVD / Video anyway, which then means you have ...

duck1979 07.02.2005 (20.10.2005) · Read full review
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I am a member of this club purely because i was a little short of cash at christmas and they had a deal of buy 1 get 3 free on dvds if i signed up to the club. To be able to cancel your membership you must buy 6 items at FULL cost 3 within the first year. For a DVD this is £18.99 on average plus £1.25 postage. So in the end i am doing myself out of pocket anyway by paying almost twice the amount a supermarket charges for dvds. I haven't brought ...

chicky_rock34 15.06.2005 · Read full review
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The Britannia music club is a very good way of getting several albums very cheaply using their introductory offer. It's wonderful if you particularly want the four or five albums you order at the start. The problem of course is that you then have commitments to purchase further albums or videos for a few months afterwards. This is OK if you generally buy chart albums regularly anyway because they are usually cheaper than the high street. I found ...
...that I wanted to begin with very cheaply, rather than paying the rip-off prices that are normally charged for them. However what if they don't have anything you want the following month when you are obliged to make another purchase? Particularly when the choice offered is far less than a general retailer. Obviously it depends what sort of music you like and they do have videos, DVD'S and games as well. Also you're not committed for all that long. ...

simcox1 21.10.2004 · Read full review
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i joined them a few yrs back and had nothing but trouble i buy a cd or dvd then they send me others even when i tell them i dont want it i have sent them back and on 3 occasions got charged for them even with proof that i sent them back i consider them to be a waste of money to be quite honest and im trying to get out of it but everytime i do they send me something else the customer service dept may sound helpfull on the phone but when it comes down ...

banger1976 07.05.2004 · Read full review
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