dont be so quick to balme Jeff for the final cost of his records. he has no control over what price a record shop chooses to sell his records for. heres a simplistic breakdown of how records are marked up before they arrive in our hands; the record label pays to have the records pressed (essentially "buying" them from the pressing plant) then they are sold to the distributor at a markup from the pressing cost. the distributors then sells them directly to the shops (marked up again). the shop then puts a price tag on the jacket with yet another markup factored in. so every time a record exchanges hands in its swim upstream it's "value" is increased. but once we, the consumers, get our hands on it and take it out of the shop its' vlaue reverts back to it's original cost (it's now a "used" record :^) I doubt that distributors would stand for such a huge cost difference when purchasing this record from the record company so the huge markup must've happened somewhere else in the chain? sean
Tom Lawton wrote: > I just got hold of a copy of Axis 20 today, even forking out the very > ridiculous price of 22ukp for it. This i must say is really taking the > piss . A normal import doublepack cost rought 13-14ukp, so how can Jeff > justify the extra 8-9ukp? i mean, this ins't really showing any respect > for the british buyers of Jeff's stuff, who, like me, have been buying > his 12"'s on sight now for years. Jeff, if you're around here, can you > please tell me why it costs an extra 8ukp than it really should? > > Just how much did you pay for yours then? > > TTFN, > -- > Tom Lawton > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
