Original Post-----Ginger Reynolds wrote:
>Hi all,
>Has anyone ever ordered the "free" DVD's from Learning Media of America? The
>DVD's are supposedly retail for $20-40 but say they produce them for educational
>institutions for "free" meaning the cost of shipping and handling at $4.95/ea.
>
>www.LMOFA.com
>
>I just question the quality of the videos since you cannot preview them online.
>Any thoughts would be appreciated.
>Thanks!
>
THANKS FOR YOUR
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I have ordered the videos, both last year and this year. I was thrilled
by the $4.95 offer. The videos are pretty good and seem to have good
information. The only thing with the $4.95 shipping offer is the cases
do not come with inserts. The DVDs have the name on them, but once
shelved you can't see the name. I made inserts using Word, so it wasn't
that bad.
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Hey there. I am a new librarian and was tempted to order from this site,
but I didn't. I tried to locate this videos elsewhere and could not. My
gut feeling is that it would not be worth it. However, you could order
one and see how it looks.
Good luck.
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Yes, I've ordered music, art, and science ones. My art and music
teacher said they liked them.
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I wouldn't bother. There are quite a few of these companies (or maybe
just one using several names). By charging you only for shipping, and
claiming the item is free, they don't have to reimburse you anything if
you don't want the video. You can send it back at your expense, but you
aren't going to get anything back from them. Since it doesn't cost $4.95
to duplicate and mail a dvd, they make money on every one they send out.
The quality generally isn't up to what you would want for a library
collection, so you have just wasted some of your budget.
When I get fliers for outfits like this I just use the backs for scratch
paper. You can check the archives for some of these company names if you
want, but a good rule to follow is: "If it sounds too good to be true it
probably is."
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Ginger Reynolds
Stratford School District Media Specialist
Jr. High Student Council Advisor
Stratford, WI 54484
gingerr@stratford.k12.wi.us
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