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- From: kw@cbnews.cb.att.com (kathleen.m.wilber)
- Subject: Horseman's Source videos
- Organization: AT&T
- Distribution: usa
- Date: Mon, 28 Dec 1992 18:40:52 GMT
- Message-ID: <1992Dec28.184052.15555@cbnews.cb.att.com>
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- I'd just like to put in a quick plug for Horseman's Source
- video mail-order rental (and purchase). I first saw them mentioned
- on the net many months ago (last year?), and the recent mention in
- another article prompted me to give them a public recommendation.
-
- I've rented lots of movies, and the service has been excellent.
- The process is very convenient - they send the movies in a box with a
- postage paid return label, so returning them is as easy as posting
- a letter. You can reserve titles in advance, and they will give
- personalized service, such as noting your out-of-town schedule
- so they don't ship a video you've been waiting for at a time when
- you won't be home to receive it.
-
- The cost is much more expensive than renting at your local video
- store - but your local video store doesn't have these tapes! And
- it's much cheaper than buying. You can rent 8 or 9 videos for
- the average price of purchasing one. Renting two videos at a time
- (cheaper, because the shipping is less) is $16.80. You can keep
- the tapes 3 days and ship back on the 4th.
-
- The downside is that there is a one-time upfront membership fee, so you
- want to be sure you'll be renting regularly. At the time I joined,
- the fee was $40 with one free rental (or $45 with two free rentals).
-
- The upside is that the catalog is large, with hundreds of titles covering
- all types of riding and training, regularly expanded, so you'll find plenty
- of interest. For example, my recent rentals included the John Lyons Symposium
- tapes and a tape of Anne Jensen and Reiner Klimke on Marzog and Ahlerich doing
- a dressage Pax de Deux. [You don't have to be a dressage enthusiast for
- the musical Kurs, Pax de Deux, and Pax de Trois tapes to be breathtaking!]
-
- Their phone is 1-800-325-1894, 9-5 MST, M-F.
-
- (I have no connection with Horseman's Source, other than as a customer.)
-
- Kathy Wilber
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