So I was in Amsterdam last week and while I was aimlessly doing the tourist thing and roaming the streets, I stumbled across a 4 story music "megastore" called Fame. But the 4 stories of music, dvds, and video games wasn't what really caught my attention (although I did end up spending way too much money on CDs there) The fact is their pricing system was really interesting. Newly released CDs were 10-17 Euro while older CDs were 5 euro. Now, these weren't used CDs, these were new CDs. All of them. But they were 5 euro. And it's so weird because in America, older releases are almost always more expensive than newer CDs. I don't know why that is. Maybe in Amsterdam they make all their money off of new releases? And in America, we're all about the first week sales so new CDs have to be cheaper so people will buy them? And the record companies makes money off of expensive old, catalog albums? To me, I think Amsterdam's pricing system makes more sense because newly released music is usually more desired than old albums. So in an effort to sell old albums why not make them cheaper? Just a thought...
-joy
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