For the record, I am a member of Mudcat. I deleted my cookie so that I could make this post without having some people come down on me personally.

This experience with Camsco happened two or three years ago, when it was still Wally Macnow's operation.

In the past, I had purchased quite a few cd's from Camsco. Sometimes delivery took a long time, but I never questioned the prices.

I was at the Champlain folk festival in Vermont where Wally had a Camsco booth selling cd's. and I saw he had the amazing box set of nine cd's on Bear Family, Songs For Political Action. The price was $350.00. Wally told me that his cost was over $300.00 and that he couldn't afford to sell it for less.

As much as I knew I'd have to have it. I decided to wait to buy it.

When I got home, I checked CDnow and their price was $212.00. WIth shipping it was a little less than $220.00.

Then I checked the website for Bear Family Records. Their price was in Deutche marks, but when the conversion was done to U.S. dollars, I was able to order the set and have it shipped to me for $192.00.

If I as an ordinary consumer could get it from the manufacturer for less than $200.00, why would it cost a dealer more than $300.00. My conclusion was that Wally was not being straight with me. Since then, I have not bought from Camsco.

Now, I know that Dick now owns Camsco, not Wally. But, I would like to know why it costs him $4.20 to take a cd, put it in a box and mail it, but, it only costs Sandy $3.00 to do the same thing?