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Re: Boycott Dallas Radio Until ...

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From: Brandon Smith
Date: Tue, 03 Jul 2001 03:33
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Andrew Hime wrote:

> >There has been no rebates. You might note that Best Buy and Wal-Marts
> didn't
> >buy into the deal and
> >had the lowest prices. A CD (without royalties and printing costs) costs
> about
> >25 cents to mass
> >produce. That makes the mark-up  ... well it takes high math to figure it
> up.
>
> It's not quite that simple - Best Buy and Wal-Mart were using the CDs as
> loss leaders.
>
> Second, a CD may physically be cheap to reproduce in mass quantities - under
> a dollar, but then there is artwork, cost to actually get the music
> recorded/produced/mastered, advertising, videos, concerts, and THE SALARIES
> OF PEOPLE WHO WHO WORK AT THE LABEL.
>
> Stop being overly simply. That's just a disingenuous argument.
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