The Great "Cheapest Legal Music Downloads" Hunt.

Violet

I just wanted to let people know my current, upsetting experience with eMusic. I signed up after it being mentioned in the freebies section of the moneysaving email. Put my details in, checked terms and conditions and signed up. After a browse I couldn't find anything I particularly wanted at that moment, that was approx. three weeks ago, I think, (I really doubt it has been even a month). This morning I checked my bank account to see if my passport renewal check had come out and found that eMusic had taken out £86.30! This has made me overdraw by about £20 and the passport check still needs to come out (£66). Suffice to say I am very, very upset about this and contacted eMusic straightaway but they don't have any phone numbers I can find and are only contactable via email, which I did and received an automated reply saying they'll be in touch at some point. Even if I had expired my free trial a monthly membership is £8.99 and I haven't even downloaded a single thing from them. I don't understand how this amount has been reached and I don't know how long they are going to take to get back in touch with me. I am unemployed due to sickness and only get one benefit payment every fortnight so I need to get this sorted before my bank charges me for going over the (£50) overdraft, which I don't even think I can do, so that is more fines and penalties from the passport office for a bouncing check and from the bank for overdrawing. I am confused, upset and angry and pray that eMusic are sympathetic and prompt. Obviously if they sort everything out that I will let Moneysavers know but so far I have just been left worrying and waiting for an email that may not even arrive today.

Violet

barmonkey

so thats the end of them then....

http://www.slyck.com/story1521_AllofMp3com_Goes_Out_With_a_Whisper

GoofyGAT

barmonkey wrote: »

so thats the end of them then....
http://www.slyck.com/story1521_AllofMp3com_Goes_Out_With_a_Whisper

Not quite by the looks of it - AllofMP3 shuts down, reopens as MP3Sparks.com. :rolleyes: G

kent_lady

Hi there

Whilst by no means a technophobe, neither am I a sheep; I tend to wait and see with the latest fads to see if they last and are worth it...!!!

Anyway, suffice to say I have now bought myself an MP3 player (NOT an iPod) and whilst I had no problems ripping tracks from my own CDs, I am a little unsure as to where to go for the best, cheapest, legal downloads. I don't want a monthly subscription, I'd rather "pay as I go", but I also don't want to lose the music if I cancel a subscription - btw, how would that work exactly?

I've searched the forums and can't seem to find an answer to "which is the best download site that doesn't tie you in or snatch back your music, and has a wide range from chart to back catalogue?"

Can anyone help on this please??

Cheers

mentm

You can download tracks without subscription from hmv virgin woolworths etc. They cost about 79p per track and are then yours to use though there are certain restrictions with the amount of times you can burn the track to a cd and the amount of mp3 players you can copy them to....

Hope this helps

kent_lady

Thanks mentm, I will give them a try.. funnily enough someone else recommended woolies too.

I'll keep you posted!!

Thanks again

velichk

Since Allofmp3 has been shut down by russian authorities, it's time to take a look around and see where else legal mp3s can be purchased at a fair price.For the people who want to find other services like allofmp3, At my lens are the 20 allofmp3 alternatives http://www.squidoo.com/review_russianmp3site

balmk

Violet wrote: »

I just wanted to let people know my current, upsetting experience with eMusic. I signed up after it being mentioned in the freebies section of the moneysaving email. Put my details in, checked terms and conditions and signed up. After a browse I couldn't find anything I particularly wanted at that moment, that was approx. three weeks ago, I think, (I really doubt it has been even a month). This morning I checked my bank account to see if my passport renewal check had come out and found that eMusic had taken out £86.30! This has made me overdraw by about £20 and the passport check still needs to come out (£66). Suffice to say I am very, very upset about this and contacted eMusic straightaway but they don't have any phone numbers I can find and are only contactable via email, which I did and received an automated reply saying they'll be in touch at some point. Even if I had expired my free trial a monthly membership is £8.99 and I haven't even downloaded a single thing from them. I don't understand how this amount has been reached and I don't know how long they are going to take to get back in touch with me. I am unemployed due to sickness and only get one benefit payment every fortnight so I need to get this sorted before my bank charges me for going over the (£50) overdraft, which I don't even think I can do, so that is more fines and penalties from the passport office for a bouncing check and from the bank for overdrawing. I am confused, upset and angry and pray that eMusic are sympathetic and prompt. Obviously if they sort everything out that I will let Moneysavers know but so far I have just been left worrying and waiting for an email that may not even arrive today.

Violet

Hi - I know it's 3 months down the line, but I hope that it all worked out OK for you. Note to Moneysavers - if a company takes an amount for your bank account by direct debit without notifying you, or if they have taken the wrong amount or the right amount on the wrong date, you can contact your bank and do a Direct Debit Indemnity claim. Your bank should then refund you your money and charge it back to the company that applied for it.

If an incorrect amount is taken via your debit card, again contact your bank and ask them to do a charge back.

Hope this helps

bill_doors

the link above is for emusic. if you are going to go with them use this link for 100 free tracks http://www.emusic.com/ge i used it a few months back with no probs.

kratess

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