Fudge Music

Web Site: www.fudgemusic.com

What the fudge is a hair gel manufacturer doing selling CDs on the Internet. Well here at Comp@re we are wondering exactly the same thing. FudgeMusic doesn't ship any CDs from Australia but uses the US Company GlobalFulfillment (the same as Sanity) to ship the orders.

FudgeMusic's site design is quite poor. The catalogue pages are jammed into the bottom right hand corner of a framed page. If you are working on a 640*400 screen there is not much to see at all. Catalogue searching (done through GlobalFulfillment's servers) is hopeless. Do a search for "smashing pumpkins" or any popular band and you will get multiple pages of results in no particular order. Thus the most recent albumn you are looking for might be on Page 7, while a cassette tape of an import single from Botswana lies on Page 1.

Shipping is good at AU $5.64 for any number of items (though this is more than Sanity). Prices of Albumns is more variable at AU $21-29. This is quite expensive compared to the other stores, and interstingly on avarage AU $1 more expensive than Sanity.

What the fudge exactly, perhaps this is a case of over zealous diversification. We here at Comp@re are still trying to work it out.

Note:
Due to the framed design of FudgeMusic's Site, Comp@re is unable to link to any of the internal pages of the site.