Comments on: 10 buck Starbuck CDs http://www.p2pnet.net/story/2725 p2pnet.net - reader powered Wed, 01 Feb 2012 15:11:09 -0300 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: Reader's Write http://www.p2pnet.net/story/2725/comment-page-1#comment-6329 Reader's Write Sun, 17 Oct 2004 12:13:07 +0000 #comment-6329 I think its great that the industry approves the sale of custom mix CDs, but a burned CD-R costing more than a factory-pressed CD-with-all-the-trimmings? This scheme reeks of the industry's usual "take 'em for all you can" mentality. Ever go into a large store such as Best Buy and notice how much floor space all those CDs take up? Commercial floor space does not come cheap. And imagine all the employee labor it takes to not only keep it organized and catalogued, but to help customers find things? That's a big expense these made-to-order CDs will be saving by the store not having to devote and maintain a vast amount of floor and shelf space to pre-packaged CDs which may or may not ever sell. So with all the money that they save by burning CDs on-the-fly, don't you think they might pass some of the savings on to their customers? Like maybe offer a $5 all-you-can-stuff-on-it CD? I think its great that the industry approves the sale of custom mix CDs, but a burned CD-R costing more than a factory-pressed CD-with-all-the-trimmings?

This scheme reeks of the industry’s usual “take ‘em for all you can” mentality.

Ever go into a large store such as Best Buy and notice how much floor space all those CDs take up? Commercial floor space does not come cheap. And imagine all the employee labor it takes to not only keep it organized and catalogued, but to help customers find things?

That’s a big expense these made-to-order CDs will be saving by the store not having to devote and maintain a vast amount of floor and shelf space to pre-packaged CDs which may or may not ever sell.

So with all the money that they save by burning CDs on-the-fly, don’t you think they might pass some of the savings on to their customers? Like maybe offer a $5 all-you-can-stuff-on-it CD?

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