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| From | "Stewart Mason" <craigtorso@verizon.net> |
| Subject | Re: www.lala.com |
| Date | Wed, 05 Apr 2006 23:58:41 -0400 |
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From: "Gary Littleton" <gary@garylittleton.com>
> For me reading the La la faq set off all my alarms. They use all the
> classic
> marketing tricks, from requiring the invitation (people want what
> they can't
> immediately get)
They're requiring invitations for the beta test. That's standard.
The site goes live -- invitation-free -- on July 1. No alarms there.
> and then they expect me to trade the
> CD and get a CD without artwork that I can't even trade at the local
> CD
> store, only through their service.
While it's true that the first few trades I got didn't have the liner
notes, every disc I've gotten in the last week (I've gotten 18 CDs in
about 10 days) has had full liner notes and tray card: when people
acknowledge receipt of the CD, they note whether it came with art or
not, and they match people who ship with art together.
So. 18 discs -- and we're talking stuff like two Beatles discs, Marti
Jones' USED GUITARS, Cocteau Twins, Kate Bush, the Raveonettes, the
first two White Stripes albums, good stuff that would be $6-7 at any
used record store if it was there at all -- for a total of, let's
see...$26.82.
18 solid CDs, 2/3s with full cover art, for the same price that I'd
pay for two new discs at Newbury Comics, or four or five at In Your
Ear. And at the same time, I parted with 18 CDs that would net me 50
cents credit each -- if that -- at either of those stores, almost all
of them out of my rejects and duplicates crate.
Exactly what part of this isn't a deal?
S
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