Thread: Printing 'Title Details'

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Post by Khorn August 8, 2003 (1 of 14)
Is there any way that you could set it up so that when printing the title details the reviews are not included unless wanted? I would think that one of the primary uses of this site is to gather info on titles to purchase and, as the reviews accumulate it will be more difficult, due to the length of the added reviews to print out the title details.

I don't know if this can be accomplished but it would be very useful if there also were a way to add a checkbox to each title page that could compile a list to be printed of all titles checked. This list could be then used for online ordering or taking shopping specially if it contained label and reference #'s for the discs.

The second item probably would require a lot of work but maybe the first could be doable.

Post by zeus August 9, 2003 (2 of 14)
Khorn said:

I don't know if this can be accomplished but it would be very useful if there also were a way to add a checkbox to each title page that could compile a list to be printed of all titles checked. This list could be then used for online ordering or taking shopping specially if it contained label and reference #'s for the discs.

What if there was a button on the Title Details page itself that said "Buy It" and this either enabled you to place an order directly or linked up with some other online vendor?

Post by Khorn August 10, 2003 (3 of 14)
zeus said:

What if there was a button on the Title Details page itself that said "Buy It" and this either enabled you to place an order directly or linked up with some other online vendor?

Interesting but, I for instance deal with one on-line dealer in the US 'cause I like the service that they give me so, they would have to be included. Also, this would have to be cumulative, in other words I would have to be able to compile an order, not be sent to the dealer each time that I checked a disc but after my total number of selections were placed or at lest be sent back to this site to continue selections.

I think many on-line dealers might jump at the chance to be included and also fork over some bread to help set the site up to work that way.

BTW I deal with Elusive Disc so maybe you could approach them and see if they are interested.

Post by Dinko August 10, 2003 (4 of 14)
zeus said:

What if there was a button on the Title Details page itself that said "Buy It" and this either enabled you to place an order directly or linked up with some other online vendor?

I've never been fond of this type of link because the links never took me to stores I usually shop at. You would have to link to every online store selling SACDs if you're to make everyone happy. I mean, unless the price is right or the album not available in Germany, I don't imagine a German buying SACDs from hmv.com.au just for the fun of it, so you would have to link to amazon.de or bol.de or something German, then to amazon.ca or cdplus.com for Canadians, etc. Though visitors might be happy to buy directly from a store in their own country, you might get $0.15 in revenue from each store you linked to. Add up the 15 cents, you might get a free SACD, but when the 15 cents are scattered across the globe, it won't get you anything worth the linking trouble.

I guess if you put a 'Buy It' link, you'll have to find some compromise between linking to one shop, and several dozen.

Post by Khorn August 10, 2003 (5 of 14)
Dinko makes some very valid points. People have to use different buying methods sometimes for very practical reasons.

The the reason for the suggestion of being able to compile a list by checkbox is to save having to copy & paste to other software to accomplish this. I tend to think the ability to easily compile a "Desired Title Sheet" from your data base would be very valuable to most of us here.

Post by zeus August 10, 2003 (6 of 14)
Dinko said:

I guess if you put a 'Buy It' link, you'll have to find some compromise between linking to one shop, and several dozen.

The current thinking is something like this:

On the Title Details page etc, there's a "Buy" button and a drop-down list of online vendors (let's say half a dozen). You select your preferred vendor from the list (it could default to the last used) and this pops up a window with details from the vendor, including their current price. You then click on their "Add to Cart" (or whatever) button and the transaction proceeds as normal.

The advantage here is that I've already done the work to link you directly with the title on the vendor's site so you don't have to futz around finding it. Also, you can easily compare prices across a number of vendors. I can add as many vendors as are willing to participate without having to favour one over the other.

Comments?

Post by randy August 11, 2003 (7 of 14)
My current shopping practice is to find a title that sounds interesting, then check towerrecords.com, amazon.com, acousticsounds.com and the label's website (usually telarc.com for classical) to find out who carries it, what the price is, and to find reviews and samples. Then I store this information in my PDA. Once I have found enough selections available from a given vendor to make the shipping charge per selection reasonable, I order.

It would be wonderful if sacdinfo could simplify this process.

Post by Khorn August 11, 2003 (8 of 14)
zeus said:

The current thinking is something like this:

On the Title Details page etc, there's a "Buy" button and a drop-down list of online vendors (let's say half a dozen). You select your preferred vendor from the list (it could default to the last used) and this pops up a window with details from the vendor, including their current price. You then click on their "Add to Cart" (or whatever) button and the transaction proceeds as normal.

The advantage here is that I've already done the work to link you directly with the title on the vendor's site so you don't have to futz around finding it. Also, you can easily compare prices across a number of vendors. I can add as many vendors as are willing to participate without having to favour one over the other.

Comments?

Yes, but is there a way to remember and store our selections over time for the occasions that we do we want to shop?

We want to be able to compile a list that will be referred to at the time of shopping. But, we won't be shopping everytime we are on the site. When we DO want to shop that's the time that "list" will remember what we wanted to buy. It might be accumulated over a period of time.

I'm sure this will work out and I hope the dealer that I use (Elusive) goes along with it although I can't see why they wouldn't support you.

Post by Dinko August 11, 2003 (9 of 14)
zeus said:

On the Title Details page etc, there's a "Buy" button and a drop-down list of online vendors (let's say half a dozen).

The advantage here is that I've already done the work to link you directly with the title on the vendor's site so you don't have to futz around finding it.

I think this is great. Especially if you do all our work and can find the albums at Amazon for us.
I can never remember all the keywords for searching for SACDs at amazon: Sl, Dl, SACD, hybrid...

Post by zeus August 11, 2003 (10 of 14)
Khorn said:

Yes, but is there a way to remember and store our selections over time for the occasions that we do we want to shop?

I think there's two distinct functions here. First a wish list which is maintained for each login. So as you're browsing the site, if you see something interesting you click on "add wishlist". At a later date you check availability and pricing. If you've got enough for a particular vendor, you go through each in turn and click on the "buy" button to add them to that vendor's shopping cart (I can't see any vendor adapting their site to permit batch orders) and then remove them from your wish list. One of the benefits of the "buy" button is that you can see at a glance who stocks it. All this assumes that I keep up to date with each and every vendor ... though maybe I could pass this responsibility onto the vendors themselves by allowing them to maintain their table. Anyway, I'm just thinking aloud here ...

Stephen

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