Re: (TV) Amazon.com

["Jeremy Smith" <jeremy_ni_smith@hotmail.com>]

A few points

1.    My local record store sells new CDs at £16. The chain stores, e.g.,
Our Price will sell normal CDs at £16 and chart CDs at say £12.

2.    I can buy non-chart CDs from Amazon at say £13 and chart CDs from
CDWOW at £9 all including postage

3.    I will still buy some CDs from the local shop because I like it and
don't want it so close and become an estate agent (realtor) or mobile phone
shop. I won't buy expensive CDs from the chain stores

4.    The local shop seems awfully empty

5.    The chain stores still seem full.

ergo - the chain stores seem able to survive, maybe better buying power -
the local shop will close.

Sad really



----- Original Message -----
From: Michael <michael@recordsnyc.com>
To: <tv@obbard.com>
Sent: Tuesday, December 12, 2000 5:35 PM
Subject: Re: (TV) Amazon.com


>
>   Philip wrote:
>
>   The internet's biggest toll hasn't been on mom-n-pop stores
>
>     Sorry Philip, but I beg to differ. It's not just me who feels the
pinch
> of the internet but most of my competitors who I am friendly with. This
> didn't just happen overnight. I can hear it in the conversations of some
of
> my customers. Case in point is the Beefheart "Grow Fins" collection that I
> mentioned yesterday. Heck, I've even bought copies of Marquee Moon on CD
> from Amazon when my distributors were out of stock. They sell them $2.00
> cheaper than I do but they do not plug it the way that I do, so I need to
> have it in my store at all times regardless of the profit margine. The
point
> is that I can still order it from Amazon and still make a profit from it.
> I'm sure that there are those people who read my praises of MM and say
"let
> me see how much Amazon is selling it for. But more than Amazon now we have
> sites like Napster and MP3 which are going to annilate the CD industry.
> That's already in progress. That not only includes the bootlegs but the
> major labels and indi's as well. At this point I'm considering getting rid
> of one of my CD racks and putting in another bin for LP's which is still a
> viable market from kids to grown ups. Vinyl has made a major upswing in
> these last few years. Just look how many of the majors have begun
releasing
> vinyl again. Even Rhino Records, the first to bail out(remember their
slogan
> "Save The Vinyl") now they've begun re-issuing all these classic LP's on
> 180g vinyl like Blank Generation, the first 4 Ramones LP's, Beefheart's
WB's
> catalog, and get ready because Marquee Moon is on it's way. So they know
as
> well that vinyl is the only way for them to start making money again. I
> don't know if it'll ever get back to the old vinyl format, it's a nice
> thought, but with CD's and computers in alot of homes now it's alot
cheaper
> to just download it. Only the serious music lover will want the entire
> package be it vinyl or CD. For the vast majority, it's the music that
> they're mainly interested in. So the Internet alone is killing the music
> industry. And though it's biggest toll may not be on the mom & pop shops
it
> still has taken a sizeable chunk out of our sales. Luckily for stores like
> mine Amazon doesn't sell vinyl or collectable ephemera. Not yet anyway. M
T
> C
>
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