AllofMP3.com vs iTunes
p2pnet.net news:-”Rich Menta from mp3newswire published an interesting article in which he explains why he still hasn’t used the full 20$ on the Gift Card he received a year ago,” says an email from our m8 Fred over in Holland.
He goes on:
The bottom line: iTunes is just too expensive.
It makes you wonder what the average AllofMP3 user is spending. Well I can’t give you thoroughly calculated figures, but in the AllofMP3.com forums I stumbled upon Acordis who tells he has spent $1020 in just over 12 months.
http://www.aom3.org/forum/showthread.php?t=444
How about that? And the responses in that thread reveal that Acordis isn’t the only one to spend close to $ 1000 a year.
It’s basic economics I guess. If a product is expensive you buy less. If something is cheap you buy more and in the end you spend way more than you originally intended. The feeling of striking a bargain is irresistible.
It makes you wonder why the music industry doesn’t just copy the Allofmp3 business model.
Remember? 4 million users despite of thresholds like having to pay to a Russian site? What if you removed that threshold?
All the best from The Netherlands.
(Cheers, Fred, and thanks)
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June 20th, 2007 at 3:52 am
Sad that it’s become almost impossible to give AllOfMp3 money.
June 20th, 2007 at 3:28 pm
Well not quite.
Check http://www.museekster.com/allofmp3payments.htm or http://www.aom3.org.
July 4th, 2007 at 9:18 am
There will always be alternatives, even if Mp3Sparks closes down too: there is a huge list of sites similar to AllOfMP3 at songboom.com that explains the differences between them all with a side-by-side comparison.