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Grex > Music > #42: Schoolkids-Records-in-Exile RIP. |  |
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tsty
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response 32 of 36:
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May 6 01:50 UTC 2007 |
iirc, the re is someting organic in the cd/dvd buring process which
does make a deterioratoin possible/probable but the details are fuzzy.
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applenix
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response 33 of 36:
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May 24 17:19 UTC 2007 |
I'm not sure how many of you are Apple fans, but if you've seen any of the
Apple Keynotes recently, but iTunes is now directly competing with stores such
as Walmart and Target. Plus, with EMI now offering DRM-Free high-quality
music, I think a lot of the major labels are going to start extening into the
digital world rather than defending copyrights and suing fans.
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krj
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response 34 of 36:
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Jul 1 17:25 UTC 2007 |
There it is in black-and-white, full page ad on Page 1 of the July
issue of Current magazine: last day for Schoolkids-in-Exile, July 31.
I was in the store for a bit yesterday; bought a copy of the
Archie Shepp jazz album that was playing, and also a recent Hoven
Droven live album. It may be in jazz that I will miss Schoolkids
the most; much of my jazz collection consists of things I heard
in the store. In all other fields I have lots of other good
sources for information.
Steve the owner said he didn't plan to raise
the discount beyond 20%, because then he was losing money on each CD.
He's planning to run a web store with what's left of the stock
after the physical store closes, for a limited time.
My somewhat snarky opinion is that it's about 5-8 years too late
for Schoolkids to be talking about selling CDs via an internet store.
And, if much of the old stock hasn't sold after six months of being
offered in-store at a 20% discount, what is going to make it more
appealing on the web?
New-release CDs are still arriving -- only a 5% discount on those,
though. I imagine all the unsold ones can be returned to the wholesaler
after the store closes.
Well, I hope the store has a good blowout during Art Fair. I'll
probably try to get there every Saturday this month just for nostalgia.
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slynne
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response 35 of 36:
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Jul 1 18:19 UTC 2007 |
resp:34 "if much of the old stock hasn't sold after six months of being
offered in-store at a 20% discount, what is going to make it more
appealing on the web?"
The main advantage is that people looking for a particular cd might be
able to find him more easily. For not very much money, he might even be
able to use Amazon's service for that. There might be nobody in the Ann
Arbor area who wants to buy a particular cd but there are probably some
people in the USA as a whole who might want it.
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mcnally
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response 36 of 36:
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Jul 2 01:09 UTC 2007 |
I'm going to have to agree with Ken on this one -- I don't see any
likelihood of selling these discs at full price or 20% off through
an on-line store. 50% off *might* move a lot of them, but shipping
costs will mean that customers will still be paying something like
75% of retail costs for a disc priced at 50% off.
Given that, why not steepen the discount to 33% or some such and
try to move them locally while there's still a storefront? It's a
*lot* of work to list, sell, and ship individual discs. Unless
there's a wholesale operation to take them off his hands or a
distributor willing to take them back, I think the Schoolkids in
Exile owner is crazy if he's going to try selling them individually
on the web..
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