00:04Columbia House, are you kidding me?
00:06How did they ever make any money?
00:08Whoever bought the CDs at regular price?
00:10It was 12 CDs or 12 cassettes for a penny.
00:14The mail order club that once had millions of subscribers
00:19will stop taking new orders after September 15th?
00:23Wait a minute.
00:24I had no idea that Columbia House was still in business.
00:28I'm looking at them. They have an online presence here.
00:31And you can buy DVDs.
00:32I guess they were selling DVDs.
00:34Yeah.
00:35Holy. Get your first two DVDs for only $9.95 each.
00:39Oh, it's a long way away from pasting a penny to the card and mailing it back.
00:43I never could figure out the business model because if I mail the penny
00:47and I get my CDs, I never pay them again, right?
00:52Hey, by any chance, any of our older listeners, you know, in your 40s, 50s, 60s,
00:59did you do, we never did Columbia, at least I can't remember.
01:02I never did.
01:03I don't think we ever did Columbia House.
01:04But is there anyone that did this as a kid, a teenager, a young adult?
01:09Did you ever tape the penny to the card and mail it into Columbia House
01:12for 12 cassettes or CDs for a penny?
01:15And then what was the deal after that?
01:18I think you had to put a credit card number like on that card
01:21because then it was like a subscription program, right?
01:23Like then you would get whatever, however many number of CDs
01:26or tapes or something every month after that.
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