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Buying CDs
Having decided that I wanted a recording of Julie Andrews in My Fair Lady, I ventured forth, as one does, to Amazon.
The price made me recoil in horror as there were only two second hand copies and both were seriously expensive. Ebay only had LPs of the show. However, Amazon.com (as opposed to Amazon UK) had loads of copies and even with shipping to the UK was still massively cheaper than buying from Amazon UK.
It looks like a few US sellers are making a killing by selling stuff on Amazon UK at greatly inflated prices and get away with it because people don't think to check if they're cheaper direct from the USA.
Moral: check both sites. Especially given that the dollar/pound exchange rate is so much in favour of the UK at present.
The price made me recoil in horror as there were only two second hand copies and both were seriously expensive. Ebay only had LPs of the show. However, Amazon.com (as opposed to Amazon UK) had loads of copies and even with shipping to the UK was still massively cheaper than buying from Amazon UK.
It looks like a few US sellers are making a killing by selling stuff on Amazon UK at greatly inflated prices and get away with it because people don't think to check if they're cheaper direct from the USA.
Moral: check both sites. Especially given that the dollar/pound exchange rate is so much in favour of the UK at present.