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| From | "Jim Kosmicki" <jkosmicki@cccneb.edu> |
| Subject | Re: new Travis? |
| Date | Wed, 15 Oct 2003 09:52:40 -0500 |
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We don't have Best Buy here in Central Nebraska -- I saw the new Travis
advertised in the flyer for our local Hastings store. and it was $9.99,
not $7.99, but then again, since they drove the local record and book
stores out of business, the level of their discounts has been pretty
weak.
I went in around 3 in the afternoon and couldn't find it. The clerk,
once I found her, looked it up in the computer and announced that they
had already sold the two (2) copies that they got in.
This CD was in their flyer and they ordered 2 copies!! More amazingly,
they'd sold their entire order of an advertised special within hours of
opening AND HADN'T SUBMITTED A RE-ORDER. My request for a copy had to
be submitted as a "special order" to make sure that it would get ordered
again.
And according to the RIAA, it's downloading that's killing the industry?
Howabout clueless retailers like this who drive the knowledgeable
retailers out of business? How many copies of Travis could this store
sell? I don't know, but more tellingly, they will never find out,
because they aren't even trying to determine the extent of that market.
(But I notice that they gladly took Sony's co-op advertising money to
help pay for the flyer to sell their Halloween crap that will be
discounted by 75% in a month)
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