Comments on: Cash and Burn retail sales

By: Reader's Write

Reader's Write — Fri, 23 Sep 2005 14:16:05 +0000

So instead of ppl buying a cd, burning it, and having to sell it to a second hand music store, they can do it at the one place? Well it’s more convenient i guess. Unless the riaa wants to ban the sale of second hand cd’s i don’t see what they can do about it.

The smart thing of course would be to ask for a small (hah! as if!) percentage of second hand sales as well, so they’re always getting something every time that one cd gets sold 2nd hand, 3rd hand, 4th hand, 5th hand, etc etc etc. Knowing that the cd’s will get sold and returned over and over means they could ask a lot less for it each time and still make money.

Of course noone’s ever accused them of being smart. They’ll probably demand the same percentage for 2nd hand as for new cd’s thus killing the market completely. The cartels are like the idiots who found the goose that laid golden eggs, killed it and cut it open, thinking there must be a lot of eggs still in the goose that hadn’t been laid yet. Duh!

By: Reader's Write

Reader's Write — Fri, 23 Sep 2005 07:49:53 +0000

They better be careful. The guys that really pirate CDs & DVDs may “buy, bootleg, return.” That would be ironic.

By: Reader's Write

Reader's Write — Fri, 23 Sep 2005 07:46:03 +0000

When everyone has Korea-like 15 MB+ as the standard download speed, the need for physical product will go the way of smart US government spending. Sorry, that was never a reality. Insert “the Dodo Bird” instead.

By: Reader's Write

Reader's Write — Thu, 22 Sep 2005 21:40:46 +0000

Isn’t this what we have been doing at Blockbuster and Netflix for years?

By: Reader's Write

Reader's Write — Thu, 22 Sep 2005 20:31:16 +0000

This is the way to do things. Despite my boycott of record stores, I would do business with this one if I lived near it. Unfortunately, the RIAA will most likely try to quash this innovative business simply for trying to adapt.