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Re: Star Wars on DVD
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Fri, 7 Jul 2000 12:08:58 GMT
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"Mike Petrucelli" <lordinsanity@usa.net> wrote in message
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> > ??? They can charge whatever they want as long as the entire industry • doesn't
> > collude to control those prices.
>
> That is what they are doing. Hence the artifical inflating prices • statement.
>
> > Supply and demand. On CDs, the price was
> > originally high because there were so few facilities that could actually • make
> > them. Once the production bottleneck was fixed, the recording companies • simply
> > decided that since everyone was already willing to pay that amount, • they'd
> just
> > leave prices there and pocket the extra (and eventually had to pay more • to the
> > artists). I cut way back on CDs because I feel they are overpriced.
> >
> > Napster will soon be put out of business, IMHO. It is nothing more than • a
> > framework for music pirates. I'm not going to steal a Porsche because it • costs
> > too much, and I'm not going to steal The Backstreet Boys music because • their
> CD
> > costs too much (not that I'd be caught dead with their stuff one way or • the
> > other).
>
> As i stated most artists make next to nothing off CD sales anyway. This • is the
> reason most artists don't care, only the record industry. By the way I • don't
> even use Napster but I do not belive it can or should be stopped.
> >
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > > FYI actual cost for a CD is about $0.15. Most of that if in the metal
> > > > > componet. If anyone doesn't think the Lego Company could sell us • peices at
> > > > > $0.02 and still be making a huge profit they are delusional.
> > > > > -Lord Insanity (who absolutely refueses to pay more than $10 a CD, $20 • a
> > DVD,
> > > > > or $0.10 a Lego piece)
> > > >
> > > > I'm glad you know how to budget your money.
> >
> > Admittedly it was a few years ago, but cost of getting a computer game
> > duplicated onto CD was about 50 cents. Packaging, shipping, recording • studio,
> > talent, support personnel, advertising, graphics and art, maintainence of • all
> > the proceeding, etc. add a lot more. Game prices did not come down, even
> > though the cost of a CD was little different from a 1.44 floppy, and you • had a
> > lot more floppies. Why? Costs had gone way up, but prices hadn't • reflected
> it
> > (simply there was resistance to a price over $60, no matter how much it
> > actually cost to make the game). CDs simply restored the balance in that
> > particular case.
> >
> > Bruce
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> Blah Blah mass produced, I conceed just because I am tired of arguing it. • Same
> for the way overpriced lego thing. It is obvious to me that prices for • CDs
> Lego, etc. are inflated, but if the people are still going to buy the • stuff at
> inflated prices, then nothing will change. Psydo-Supply and Demand
>
> -Lord Insanity
Its not that the prices are inflated, its that the products you are
talking about are luxury items. Maybe you haven't thought of it that way,
or maybe you just haven't thought. When a product is only affordable to 10
or 20 percent of the human population, I think it should be considered a
luxury good. Further, if you think you should be able to buy a luxury good
by picking up aluminum cans for an hour a day, then you'd better just play
with your cans. Meaning, if you can't be productive enough to afford luxury
goods, then get over it. Or you can steal the luxury goods like you
advocate... like the song says, take from the rich, give to the poor, til
there are, no rich no more. Great plan dude... no more rich, means no more
luxury goods, either. Further, steal from the wrong person and get your
hand chopped off, or worse. Have fun! John
PS - instead of accusing others of having too much money, why don't you
admit that you just don't have enough? And come up with a way to earn it
instead of trying to convince others that it is just for you to steal it.
PPS - I haven't bought a retail priced CD in years; I don't value crystal
clear music that highly. But I have bought way too much LEGO, at up to $10
a piece or more, depending on the set, and didn't even think of that as very
high priced...
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