[net.audio] I Want to buy reasonably priced cd's..but I can't

rfg@hound.UUCP (R.GRANTGES) (01/10/85)

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Continuing my series on  cd prices and the difficulty of obtaining
what you want (two earlier epistles dealt with my attempts to buy
from Tower Records):
Well, just before Xmas the retail price here in NJ finally did come
down to match the widely reported drop in wholesale price. For at
least two weeks or more Sam Goody stores sold all cd's at $12.99 each.
They had a big stock, too, because prior to that they did all they 
reasonably could to discourage any sales at all. Guess I must have
bought around 15 discs from them and a few elsewhere.
Wow! Nirvana! Some of these were just great.  In fact some that I
bought for others were super and I decided I would buy a copy for
myself after xmas.
What do you know? Yes, you guessed it...after xmas, prices have gone right
back up into the stratosphere ($17.99 and higher).
Insanity prevails.
At least there is evidence for price elasticity. Before xmas the counters
were mobbed. After xmas turnover is down to near zero again.  I guess
I can wait, but it's hard....hard.

"It's the thought, if any, that counts."  Dick Grantges  hound!rfg
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"It's the thought, if any, that counts."  Dick Grantges  hound!rfg