ernie, it's time for one of your resolutions on this matter in valley girl style
though.
Josh Davison wrote:
quoted 35 lines On Mon, 22 May 2000, Scott McKeating wrote:
> On Mon, 22 May 2000, Scott McKeating wrote:
>
> > My point was that record companies and record stores are fucking the
> > customer over. Which on the whole you'll find they are. If a store owner can
> > buy a new Cd at £7.25 from a distributer (without discounts for bulk etc)
> > then how do you explain the price it hits the shelves at.
>
> most record companies, stores etc. are in the business primarily to make
> money. some feel that they have to make more money on a transaction than
> others, but no matter how nice the record store is, they still need to pay
> the rent, utilities, advertising, etc. so some markup is always a
> necessity otherwise, you arent' going to be able to find your records
> anywhere because nobody's making money
>
> i don't think there's a giant conspiracy involving every music label or
> store to rip off the customer. there is definitely a market-wide habit of
> marking up the product by over 1000% but this is more to do with the major
> manufacturers' anti-competitive practices forcing retailers to conform to
> a Minimum Advertised Price or they are cut off from the major
> distributors. Small labels are forced to use the major distributors or
> they cannot sell their product, small stores have to use them too
> otherwise nobody will bother coming into their store. On the whole, i
> think you will find that small stores (i.e. not TOwer or Virgin or
> COconuts or Sam Godforbid) and small labels (i.e. not WEA or Virgin or
> Universal or Sony) are not trying to screw the customer but it is an
> industry-wide pricing model that they are forced to take part in or enjoy
> a mere .0001% of the market.
>
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