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We don't matter. Think about the pricing of HDMI cables. You and I both know you can pick them up on Amazon for $7. But Best Buy charges $50. There is no real
by krschultz 15y ago
We don't matter.
Think about the pricing of HDMI cables. You and I both know you can pick them up on Amazon for $7. But Best Buy charges $50. There is no real difference.
Why doesn't Best Buy charge $10 or something like that? They are literally ripping people off.
Let's say that the cost to Best Buy is $5. If they charge $10, they make $5 each. If they sell it for $50, they make $45 each.
Obviously a lot of people will just order it online. But when you are making 9x the profit for each one, you can lose 80% of the people and still come out ahead.
So they can make albums cost $2 and hopefully capture 100% of all people, or they continue charge $10 and lose some people. Again, as long as they're not losing 80% of people, they are coming out ahead. And I'm not convinced that at $2 you would get 100% of people.
- mkoivuni 15y agoWell said, in that light you could even view the content providers as altruistic by relying on those with the money to pay higher prices while those without resort to piracy and get it for free.
- afterburner 15y ago"on Amazon for $7" Or on Monoprice for $1 ;)
- dyselon 15y agoI'm not necessarily disagreeing with you, but if we don't matter to content creators, I'm baffled as to why they spend so much time bitching about us.