Bargain Hunt

Thought I’d share this mad seller on Ebay with you. The company is called baham_books
and they are based in Reading. All UK deliveries are free postage, but I don’t know whether they sell elsewhere or what they charge if they do. This is a seriously big operation with about five million books on at any one time. Music CDs are a tiny proportion of the business (there are only around 83,000 listed!). As such, not much care has gone into their listing. Most are listed at £2.49, and all seem to have been graded as GOOD, in other words they’ve not been checked. The listings themselves are appalling – often just album title and EAN code, so there are plenty of listings out there for ‘Greatest Hits’ or ‘Symphony no.3’ or such like with no indication as to whose. With the EAN number and Discogs open its not hard to find what they are, but it needs a bit of work, so things aren’t going to come up on searches.
So far the worst thing I’ve had condition wise is a scratchy, but playable, double CD of Beethoven Masses. The best, which came today, were two box sets from the Philips Mozart complete edition. Six CDs of symphonies and seven of Serenades for Orchestra in near mint condition, with slipcase and books – each £2.49! or about 40p per disc. The best bargains appear to be in classical, but I’ve also bought stuff by Richard Thompson, Songhoy Blues and Gregory Isaacs.
There is a slight downside. Things don’t always come. I guess they can’t find them so don’t send them. But refunds are promptly given without question, so it’s not really an issue.