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Originally Posted by kane
It is not the same album at two different prices.
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and i never said it was, standard oil sold two DIFFERENT grades of gas too, regular and premium
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One has three extra songs on it and costs a buck or two more.
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the cleaner burning premium gss
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the difference is that there is no short supply. If you want the regular album you can buy it from any record store or website. If you want the deluxe edition you will have to go to target to get it. Target also makes it available for order online and you can buy the digital download of it as well so it's not like it isn't readily available.
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so when standard oil gave non partners 20% of the regular gas, and gave their partners 100% of their orders that short supply (but still sold all stations all the premium gas they wanted) that shorting the supply
but giving non partners no copys of the deluxe addition is not shorting the supply.
when did zero become greater then 20
news flash the bogus arguement you just made could have been made about standard oils partners stations, you could buy it from any texico station you wanted to
just like you can buy it from any target store, the point is competiion is reduced to 1 so the price you get is forced up.
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If we are talking about price fixing then why is the album available at Fry's for $11.99, but at my local store (not a Fry's) it is $13.99? Should we sick the government on my local store for charging $2 more for the same content as Fry's?
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No you idiot that exactly what i am arguing for, competition, it not like the example your trying to justify above and below, where only one store can sell it so no one can compete on price.
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While we are at it why don't we go after AC/DC. Their last album was sold only in Walmart stores. So if you wanted it you had to buy it through them. Or what about Paul McCartney who sold a certain version of his last album solely at Starbucks.
The bottom line is simple. Just because someone releases a record does not mean you are entitled to buying it. But then again, you and I have debated this point ad nauseum before so it is not worth debating again.
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if you release an album for sale, me having a right to buy it is exactly what the free market is about.
