If Rah

[Lx_Nen]

There's a 4 track promo CD with it on ebay for silly money.

Yet again I have to wonder why people who want music on CD are being made to give large amounts of money to random ebay sellers.

Current business model: Band pays for CD, gives it to random person. Random person puts it on ebay for 40 quid. Fan buys it.
Result: Band out of pocket having paid for manufacture of CD. Ebay makes approx 2x normal CD single cost in fees, random person makes a lot more, fan pays ridiculous money.

Rational model: Band pays for CD, Fan gives them money for it. Band makes more, fan spends less, everybody apart from Ebay and random person is better off.

If exclusivity is the problem, just delay posting the CD until after the promotional exclusive period is over. If price is the problem, charge more - the market will obviously bear high costs. If post and packing is the problem, sell subscriptions - 'all 6 promo CD singles for this album, to be posted once the last one is done, 50 quid', done deal.

[joethelion]

Originally Posted by Lx_Nen

'all 6 promo CD singles for this album, to be posted once the last one is done, 50 quid', done deal.

I absolutely wish bands would do this...

...and if labels did that in the 90's... man... I would have spent soooo much less money on Depeche Mode singles

[Georg.]

Originally Posted by Lx_Nen

There's a 4 track promo CD with it on ebay for silly money.
Yet again I have to wonder why people who want music on CD are being made to give large amounts of money to random ebay sellers.

Here is a a deeper look at who is making the money out of the promo CDs (NOT Underworld obiviously!!! ).

Past ebay sales for the "I Exhale" promo CD (2 Tracks)

end date - price - seller
06-04-2016 - £11,49 - luckylarryspromoshack
09-04-2016 - £17,00 - luckylarryspromoshack
12-04-2016 - £10,21 - luckylarryspromoshack
17-04-2016 - £10,50 - luckylarryspromoshack
20-04-2016 - £ 5,88 - luckylarryspromoshack
23-04-2016 - £ 6,56 - luckylarryspromoshack
26-04-2016 - £ 3,53 - luckylarryspromoshack
29-04-2016 - £ 4,24 - luckylarryspromoshack
15-05-2016 - £ 4,19 - kingcinder69


Past ebay sales for the "If Rah" promo CD (4 Tracks)

26-04-2016 - £15,49 - luckylarryspromoshack
29-04-2016 - £21,09 - luckylarryspromoshack
08-05-2016 - £21,87 - luckylarryspromoshack
15-05-2016 - £18,00 - luckylarryspromoshack
17-05-2016 - £39,00 - eazeism
23-05-2016 - £12,50 - eazeism
26-05-2016 - £24,00 - luckylarryspromoshack

As you can see one seller made £169,86 from selling 13 promo CDs at ebay...!! (they were never intented to be used as promos!?)
I can't understand why Underworld doesn't want to make that money?!
I would happily pay them my money for the CDs or a lossless download (at underworldlive.com), but....