Will all customers, old and new, please read this page thoroughly each time

                                                                                    PRICING OF CDs
The fall of the pound against the euro has been dramatic - from 1.42 euros to the pound, to 1.21 (from 72p to 86p per euro). The prices of the CDs in pounds has therefore risen by up to nearly three pounds. Prices will drop as and when the pound increases its value.  Refund: There will also be a refund of £1.00 for the third CD, and £1.25 for  the fourth CD and £1.00 for all CDs over this number. This is the only way this can be done under the Paypal system at the moment.
                                            So refunds are 3 CDs £1.00, 4 CDs £2.25, 5 CDs £3.25 6 CDs £4.25.
                                            This reduces to £0.75 for each CD from 7 upwards, for postage reasons as
                                            large sums of euros are not entrusted to the postal service
                                                                                                                                 
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There are two methods of  buying The Stockhausen Edition CDs through the society:.

PURCHASERS LIVING IN UK

 Members and non-members can simply telephone their bank, ask for the appropriate amount of money to transferred to the society's bank account and send me an e-mail at ludovicus@btinternet.com. giving your account number for reference   Bank sort code: 08 90 46 Acc. no.50630459. Prices are as listed in shopping  cart.

UK purchasers are requested, wherever possible, to use a simple transfer from own bank to society's bank account. If Paypal is more convenient, we will accept such transactions.

PURCHASERS IN COUNTRIES OTHER THAN UK

As from August 22nd 2002, coincidentally Stockhausen's birthday, the Stockhausen Edition CDs can be bought by credit card through paypal.com.. Signing up with paypal is very simple, and is the method chosen by the Stockhausen Society to allow you to buy these wonderful CDs by credit card at the lowest possible prices with an easy and efficient system.

Paypal.com is a large company with 17 million customers rising by thousands daily, and I found that many members were already using Paypal in order to purchase items on the net, long before the society discovered the service and wish that someone had told me about it sooner. So if you are new to Paypal and sign up to purchase Stockhausen CDs, note that you can purchase items from hundreds of businesses world wide as well.

                                                               RECEIVING CDs by AIRMAIL
                           It is now possible to ask Stockhausen Verlag to send CDs by Airmail
                            email to Ludovicus@btinternet.com for the additional price in euros.

                                                             HOW THE SERVICE WORKS

Each time an order is made through Paypal, an e-mail is sent alerting me to this. Every Friday, the week's orders are e-mailed to Stockhausen-Verlag: they are then packed on Saturday at the Verlag and posted immediately. If you begin to wonder where your CDs are, please do not complain to Paypal or to me: rest assured that the email has been sent and its receipt acknowledged. All CDs are sent by surface mail which is naturally slower than by airmail (see next paragraph)


                                                       CUSTOMERS OUTSIDE EUROPE PLEASE NOTE   
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CDs are sent by the Verlag by surface mail, not air mail, to addresses outside Europe. This can take 8 weeks from the moment of despatch by the Verlag. Allow the society a week (I cannot deal with transactions on a daily basis) to transfer your money to Kürten and the total time could be up to 10 weeks.to the Far East e.g Japan and 8 weeks to America. Many customers assure me that the wait is worth it! [NB The longest time taken was 11 weeks from Kürten to Western Canada]

                                                    PRICE ADJUSTMENT REQUEST
The society provides this service solely from the desire to allow more and more people to enjoy this wonderful music, and make ordering the CDs a relatively simple affair. However, the CD prices listed in pounds was based on a conversion rate of 1.37 euros to the pound with an added margin to cover advertising costs.. If the exchange rate goes up for example to 1.33 euros to the pound (21 May 2003) a request for 'top-up' payment may be made, as we have tried to price the more expensive CD sets as cheaply as possible. I do not think that this request will apply to single CDs.


Any profits will, of course, be used to further the society's aims and 15% of such profits (should they ever materialise) will donated to the Stockhausen Foundation for Music.

Any further questions can be sent to the above e-mail address.

Hon. Sec