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| From | "Gary Littleton" <gary@garylittleton.com> |
| Subject | Re: www.lala.com |
| Date | Thu, 6 Apr 2006 10:12:06 -0400 |
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Thanks for the info Stewart. Their marketing still rubs me the wrong way,
but if you can trade liner notes it sounds like a reasonable deal. That was
the main sticking point for me.
Cheers,
Gary
-----Original Message-----
From: audities-owner@smoe.org [mailto:audities-owner@smoe.org] On Behalf Of
Stewart Mason
Sent: Wednesday, April 05, 2006 11:59 PM
To: audities@smoe.org
Subject: Re: www.lala.com
----- Original Message -----
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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