RSD 2024

[Macca]

Maybe it just wouldn't sell at the higher price? The market finds its level.

[Pigmy Pony]

I wouldn't expect the market to find its level that quickly, it's only been a week.

[Macca]

I wouldn't expect the market to find its level that quickly, it's only been a week.

Maybe they will get even cheaper next week?

Better off starting high then dropping your price until someone buys, than starting low and losing potential profit.

Overheads of running physical shop are massive these days, everyone wants a piece of you, plus it's all heavily over-regulated at vast expense. Can't blame the shopkeep for trying to make a few bob.

[Pete The Cat]

I don't normally comment on RSD because, as they say, if you don't like something then you don't need to spend time on it or spoil others' fun with your negativity. But the OP did ask...

I think it is way, way beyond its original justification. It's an artificial spike in the market that takes up pressing plant time and causes a secondary market pricing frenzy. Most of it is old material merely with substandard coloured vinyl or extra cardboard. It knocks out delivery times for normal non-RSD sales. I believe it excludes second hand record shops from participating so isn't a true record store day anyway.

In an age when playing records has become priced out of the lives of ordinary folks it perpetuates the bad joke that is the so-called "vinyl revival".

Obviously I'm a bit grumpy this morning but you can see why I don't usually bother commenting on it.

Pete

[Macca]

I don't normally comment on RSD because, as they say, if you don't like something then you don't need to spend time on it or spoil others' fun with your negativity. But the OP did ask...

I think it is way, way beyond its original justification. It's an artificial spike in the market that takes up pressing plant time and causes a secondary market pricing frenzy. Most of it is old material merely with substandard coloured vinyl or extra cardboard. It knocks out delivery times for normal non-RSD sales. I believe it excludes second hand record shops from participating so isn't a true record store day anyway.

In an age when playing records has become priced out of the lives of ordinary folks it perpetuates the bad joke that is the so-called "vinyl revival".

Obviously I'm a bit grumpy this morning but you can see why I don't usually bother commenting on it.

Pete

My local second hand shop participated, so they're not excluded.

I think RSD started before the 'vinyl revival'. Okay, so it was and is a marketing exercise, but it's possible that it's at least partly responsible for the revival.

Whether the revival was good thing or not is debatable. It's certainly made used records a lot more expensive, which is only a good thing if you already have lots of them and are not planning on getting any more.

[Pete The Cat]

My local second hand shop participated, so they're not excluded.

Perhaps things have changed, I had heard that on a YouTube video made by a second hand record shop owner.

A couple of Christmases ago my daughter asked for a turntable. I got her a CD player and a stack of CDs since there's no way she'll be able to afford records. One of her friends has 5 LPs and no turntable, they're all still sealed adorning his bedroom walls. The modern world, eh?

Happily the world looks a bit better now I've had a coffee

Pete