Jay, free two cents ...

1. Join ARSC. As I'm sure you know, professional dues are tax-deductable.

2. Take out an occasional ad in the ARSC Journal.

Then you have "skin in the game" and there wouldn't be as much justification for feathers to be 
ruffled when you post solicitations for buying that can only be used by a tiny subset of ARSCList 
subscribers.

-- Tom Fine

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Music Hunter" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Wednesday, November 18, 2015 8:46 PM
Subject: [ARSCLIST] MUSIC HUNTER - have explained NUMEROUS times to ARSC individuals


> Hopefully last time:
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> From time to time among the many alerts we send out to our music librarian
> clients there is a title of a historical nature or an oddity.
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> Those are the things we post here & I have seen many threads of discussions
> about them.
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> Since it is common knowledge that MUSIC HUNTER is not in the individual
> consumer business I'm surprised that some here consider it a commercial
> post.
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> We simply do not have the time to tailor a post for you & so we just cc your
> forum.
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> As for the reasons we do not service individual consumers:
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> 1-      We have a contract with United Parcel Service and they handle all of
> our orders.
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> UPS gives us a discount for legitimate commercial deliveries of $ 3.40 PER
> PACKAGE. UPS does not consider a home office a legitimate commercial
> address.
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> UPS has a minimum billing weight of one pound. We can ship 4 CDs or DVDs
> properly packaged within that one pound.
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> Orders of 1 or 2 CDs become costly per title as UPS charges us for one pound
> even if we simply send a single piece of paper. This fact, combined with not
> receiving the UPS discount for a commercial delivery makes it very costly
> for an individual consumer.
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> 2-      Our library clients give Music Hunter bone-fide purchase orders for
> the CDs & DVDs they order. The funds are set aside and when our shipments
> arrive, they include our invoice showing the purchase order information,
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> etc .The libraries then mail MUSIC HUNTER their checks. We have been
> servicing libraries since 1945 and have never had a check bounce for any
> reason. In addition, Music Hunter has never had to contact a library
> requesting payment. When we had our Record Hunter retail chain, we did
> consumer mail order. Quite a few consumer checks bounced for various reasons
> but from the consumers viewpoint, it was always the bank's fault. Not being
> retailers, this is not an issue we need be concerned with.
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> 3-      Because libraries pay us promptly, there has never been a reason to
> incur the expenses and additional paperwork associated with accepting credit
> cards. I'm sure that you all understand that the equipment, monthly account
> expenses, and transaction fees are built into the prices that vendors charge
> when accepting credit card sales.
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> 4-      Libraries order many CDs & DVDs. A good amount of our orders include
> links from other vendors.
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> 5-      Individual consumer requests, for the most part, are for 1 or 2
> titles and for a company like Music Hunter that does not maintain a website
> require a lot of back & forth communication. Yes, there are exceptions where
> individuals buy more but we simply are not in that business.
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> 6-      The cost of properly maintaining a website is built into prices that
> you pay. To think otherwise is naive.
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> THE BOTTOM LINE IS, SINCE YOU KNOW MUSIC HUNTER IS NOT SOLICITING YOUR
> BUSINESS, WOULD YOU LIKE TO SEE AN ALERT FROM TIME TO TIME OF A HISTORICAL
> OR ODD NATURE THAT MAY RESULT IN DSICUSSION THREADS?
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> They will not be re-written or formatted just for ARSC but they are usually
> informative.
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> Jay
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> Your search for sound & video ends here!
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> Jay Sonin, General Manager
> Music Hunter Distributing Company
> 4880 North Citation Drive, Suite # 101
> Delray Beach, Florida 33445-6552
> <mailto:[log in to unmask]> [log in to unmask]
> 561-450-7152
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