I've bought many CDs from Camsco without questioning their prices and practices. Someone told me, though, that I'd get a better deal at CDNow. So, I decided to compare the prices on what I've decided is my next purchase, the new CD by Jody Stecher.

Camsco = $12.98 CDNow = $12.34

I can understand that a small operation like Camsco needs to charge a little more for the product. The 5% difference would not have made me switch from Camsco to CDNow.

But then I factored in the shipping charges.

Camsco = $4.20 CDNow = $2.99

That is a whopping 40% difference.

It seems to me that Camsco is hiding its true prices within inflated "shipping" charges.

Needless to say, I made the order at CDNow.

I am on a limited budget and have been ordering about one CD a month.

With the difference in shipping charges, I could have had an extra two or three CDs in the past two years if I had known what Camsco was doing.