A Little Hypocrisy?


How would you respond to the record company exec who say -

"I look on the Audiogon web site and I see people buying and selling $5,000 cd players, $10,000 speakers, even cables and wires for several hundred dollars per linear foot. Nobody complains about those kind of prices. Yet you complain about cd's costing fifteen to twenty bucks. What gives?"

I include myself in for this criticism, but I'd be fascinated to hear how anyone else would respond to this.
kinsekd

Showing 1 response by edesilva

I would also hazard to note that a place like A'gon is the essence of a competitive market--people pay what they think its worth, or they don't buy it, and if someone values it more, it gets sold to someone else. Contrast that with the retail CD market which has now been judged to be the subject of, effectively, price fixing. I think I'd like a CD market where I was in control of deciding what software was worth how much.

B'sides, getting back to the original quote, I complain about high equipment costs *and* high CD costs all the time. Maybe I just like to complain...