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2 Aug 29th, 2001 

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choklatgirl

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6 CD’s for a £1 each plus postage and packing. The headlines on the Britannia Music Club flyers practically scream at you from every weekend magazine. So you sign up and before you know it you have paid £14.99 each (in addition to paying for postage and packing at approximately £2 a time) when you could have got the same thing at the shops (you can pay £9.99 for a CD in a supermarket and 8.99 on certain websites and pay no extra charges). You would save yourself at least £40 - Britannia Music Club costs about £101.94 as compared to £59.64 from a supermarket.

Britannia’s service is not even convenient. You are tied to a 6 album deal and receive a catalogue each month. You call a premium line to cancel the recording of the month. If you forget, Britannia Music Club send it out and you pay to return it and you have the teeth pulling experience of an automated answering system.

The Britannia Music Club system is not convenient. You need to wait at least 5 days for your goods to be delivered. The range is good enough, there is nothing too extreme, nothing that will offend the neighbours or deafen the parents.

But there is light at the end of this tunnel. After you have brought 6 recordings you get a voucher for a free CD from a selected range. What a clincher that is. If you want to give Britannia Music Club a go, you may as well send them a signed blank cheque.
 

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java 29.08.2001 14:46

I remember when i was 14 i applied for brittania - and got membership(!?) Thinking it was all lovely having those free cd's at the beginning but then comes the time when you have to start forking out loads for 'regular' priced albums. I couldn't sit down for a week when my mum found out.:0)keith

Elainebaba 29.08.2001 14:44

Good advice. Thanks. Avril

rustifer 29.08.2001 13:45

They really are awful. My sister joined them and had hellish problems trying to cancel her membership later on.



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