RTP-area local music and culture

[Bo Williams <bo AT mrboboto.com>]

The profit margin of "selling one used CD" is big (buy for $5, sell for 
$7-$9?). However, when you factor in all the CDs you've bought for $3-$5 
and never sold, I'd bet the profit margin on used CDs as a category is 
not that much better than new.

I've never run nor worked in a record store, though, so this is just an 
uneducated guess.

Bo

Chris Rossi wrote:

> James Hepler wrote:
>
> > > I love the fact that admitting I've bought CD's at
> > > Best Buy creates
> > > the assumption I don't support the local retailers. A quick glance
> > > around my computer shows the new Belle & Sebastian
> > > CD from Schoolkids
> > > and the new Fall album from CD Alley...not to
> > > mentions scores of used
> > > CD's (B-52's Whammy, the last Holly Go Lightly, from
> > > each
> > > respectively.)  There's few things I love more than
> > > scouring the used
> > > bins at CD Alley where I always find something to
> > > buy.
> >
> >
> >
> > Oh, the USED BINS!  Yeah, that's how local record
> > stores make their money.  Why not just throw a quarter
> > in the gumball machine so Sean can pay to keep a 30
> > watt light bulb on for fifteen minutes?
> >
> > ;)
> it was my understanding that profit margin on used CDs was actually 
> better than on new.  am i mistaken?
>
> rossi
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