Comment Re:When will the RIAA learn? (Score 1) 371
Now see? There you go with that mantra "It's just good business" and "maximizing profit". Yeah, I have no idea what I'm talking about. Would you rather hear it from an artist? Then will you believe me? Stop listening to RIAA propaganda and think for yourself.
http://archive.salon.com/tech/feature/2000/06/14/l ove/print.html
"The best price is that optimal point on the curve which generates the highest profits."
It cracks me up how one of the main things that I say is bad is the exact thing you say back to me as good. Just because something has text books and schools to teach it doesn't mean it's a good thing. They also teach how to use psychology to manipulate people into buying things they don't actually want or need... and they use this knowledge on children. Is that a good thing? I'm, sure you probably do, after all its "just good business" right? Your quote is EXACTLY what I'm talking about. You're talking about schools that teach how to overcharge someone to just the right extent that they don't actually get pissed enough to not buy your product while maximizing profit. I'm sorry but that's just wrong. It may be how things are, but it's wrong.
"Are you sure you're not confusing net profits and gross sales? If you're not making any money on that $0.05 sale, volume doesn't make a difference."
Actually volume CAN make a difference. The cost to produce is a finite number and once you have made that back from sales the remainder is basically profit. Sure this is a simplistic description but you get the point. We're in a world where the listening audience is no longer millions it's hundreds of millions and with the increase in listeners is an increase in sales. Remember, internet downloadable sales has virtually nil overhead. No more for one song than 1000 songs. No packaging, no shipping, no store staff. So once the song is produced the expenses drop drastically. But since the price to BUY them has gone up the profits soar... and we get screwed.
You don't have to charge an outrageous amount to profit. You can also profit buy making a good product that sells more.
http://archive.salon.com/tech/feature/2000/06/14/
"The best price is that optimal point on the curve which generates the highest profits."
It cracks me up how one of the main things that I say is bad is the exact thing you say back to me as good. Just because something has text books and schools to teach it doesn't mean it's a good thing. They also teach how to use psychology to manipulate people into buying things they don't actually want or need... and they use this knowledge on children. Is that a good thing? I'm, sure you probably do, after all its "just good business" right? Your quote is EXACTLY what I'm talking about. You're talking about schools that teach how to overcharge someone to just the right extent that they don't actually get pissed enough to not buy your product while maximizing profit. I'm sorry but that's just wrong. It may be how things are, but it's wrong.
"Are you sure you're not confusing net profits and gross sales? If you're not making any money on that $0.05 sale, volume doesn't make a difference."
Actually volume CAN make a difference. The cost to produce is a finite number and once you have made that back from sales the remainder is basically profit. Sure this is a simplistic description but you get the point. We're in a world where the listening audience is no longer millions it's hundreds of millions and with the increase in listeners is an increase in sales. Remember, internet downloadable sales has virtually nil overhead. No more for one song than 1000 songs. No packaging, no shipping, no store staff. So once the song is produced the expenses drop drastically. But since the price to BUY them has gone up the profits soar... and we get screwed.
You don't have to charge an outrageous amount to profit. You can also profit buy making a good product that sells more.
