So long, Columbia House. You won't be missed.
http://www.msn.com/en-us/news/other/columbia-house-owner-files-for-bankruptcy/ar-BBlCRac?ocid=ansnewshp11
That was a standard of a generation....even though they ripped you off.
I think I still have some free CD coupons to turn in...
Too late. They haven't sold CD's for years.
In many ways, Columbia House was the precursor to the modern Internet. The deal worked slightly in the customer's favor, as long as the customer was diligent about sending in those monthly rejection cards - which, of course, many weren't, especially if they were kids.
But Columbia House wasn't about selling CD's, it was about building a huge, young customer base. CH made its money selling access to its customers to its business affiliates.
Sounds an awful lot like the present, doesn't it?
Dropped my NRA membership for this exact reason. At one point I received an unsolicated "gun training CD" in the mail from an affiliated vendor, first of a series of 4 or 5 discs. If I kept it they were going to bill me for the set. I had to return it to kill the deal. F'k that bullschitt, I'm done.
The same thing happened to me with Girls Gone Wild...! Now I'm forced to watch those monthly DVD I paid for before I cancelled 12 months later...!!!!
Kinda like the story of the Irishwoman who answered a knock on her door from the local priest informing her that her husband, a distillery worker, had fallen into a vat of whiskey and drowned.
"Did pass quickly, or did he linger?" she asked tearfully.
"Well, he had to get out twice to pee..."
