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- From: larry@cs.com (Larry Spence)
- Newsgroups: rec.audio
- Subject: Re: CD pricing
- Message-ID: <1992Sep14.214634.4376@cs.com>
- Date: 14 Sep 92 21:46:34 GMT
- References: <22507@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu> <-17462460@nemesis>
- Organization: Computer Support Corporation, Dallas,Texas
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- In article <-17462460@nemesis> root@nemesis.UUCP writes:
- >
- >And locally, our Sound Warehouse chain recently changed their default
- >price on CDs from $14.99 to $15.99 US, even as it costs less to make the
- >discs.
-
- Sound Whorehouse in Dallas did this quite a while ago ( > 1 year ago). I
- asked the manager why ("I thought CD prices were supposed to _decrease_!")
- and his response was that due to the recession, they wanted to get as much
- as the market would bear from those consumers who could still afford to buy
- CDs! I.e., if you can afford the already-ridiculous $15 price, raising it
- one dollar probably won't make you stop buying CDs. Dallas is not exactly
- a hotbed of CD pricing competition, as you can see. %(
-
- >I think the big labels decided that we were willing to pay this price and are
- >simply holding street prices high as pressing prices fell to almost nothing.
- >Looks like price gouging to me. Where's the FTC when you need them?
-
- Hey, do what I did and stop paying those prices. Order by mail from places
- like Noteworthy Music, who sell new CDs for $8-12. If you've got to walk
- into a store and impulse-shop, they're going to screw you on price. If you
- can plan periodic purchases of 3-4 discs at a time (to keep the shipping
- cost down), you can save $$. The premium you pay for getting that "instant
- CD fix" from a store is steep... The only way prices might go down is if
- people stop buying from those g*dawful chain stores.
-
- --
- Larry Spence
- larry@cs.com
- uunet!csccat!larry or sun!texsun!csccat!larry
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