From david turgeon Sent Tue, May 11th 1999, 15:55
From david turgeon Sent Tue, May 11th 1999, 15:55
> This raises another point that maybe people on the list with their own > labels could answer. Why would you let a product be so ltd that it > fetches this much 2nd hand? After all Skam are not going to see any > return from this sale are they? The money goes straight to the guy who's > selling - he/she probably bought it for $10 or $15 a few years back and > I'm sure they are rubbing their hands with glee at the thought of all > that profit. i would say that maybe the mere fact that these releases are bound to take so much value is what makes them interesting to buy, & thus interesting to produce for the label, because they know they're going to sell them all -- & just that is probably doing a lot more good (financially-wise) to skam/mas than whatever profit they could make from 2nd hand selling if they could do something like that. -- david turgeon at http://www.notype.com