Good to hear - my local store had it and were gouging for $250... I had it in my hands and put it down. Someone else picked it up and walked around with it for 20 minutes and then put it back...
This stuff is no different that what happens at Black Friday and other limited release items. If you really don't want this to happen, don't limit them and make enough so there's no way folks will bid them up.
Or price them the first day at estimated eBay prices to keep the flippers away...
Terrible, elitist idea. Only those with deep pockets should get to enjoy the stuff?
Gouging at $250??? Really???
Check out eBay, most are going for over $300. $250 seems to be a real world discount of $50 or better.
This stuff is no different that what happens at Black Friday and other limited release items. If you really don't want this to happen, don't limit them and make enough so there's no way folks will bid them up. Or price them the first day at estimated eBay prices to keep the flippers away...
Anybody who thinks otherwise is either naive or in denial....
BTW, the "S" in MSRP stands for "Suggested", not "mandatory". I don't know as I'm not a store owner, but are there contractual agreements on pricing these goods that the store, artists and distributors are bound to? If Cake doesn't want stores "gouging" they should try to require pricing agreements, otherwise it's just too bad...
Did they sell ALL the Cake box sets? If so, it seems they priced them right and that handful that bought them may feel they got a bargain IF they had to have it yesterday.
I'll gladly buy it from the band. I can wait for it some more, they are only records...
But I also understand that in today's world there are folks who are willing to pay a huge premium for something to be sent to them w/o them leaving the comfort of home and plenty who are willing to do the work to supply them.
They're records, for God's sake. Not food or housing or clothing. #firstworldproblems
Uh, those aren't ASKING prices, they're SOLD prices...
Nothing new here. Who do you want making the money, the record store or the evil flipper, because one of the two is gonna get it.
I gotta admit it's pretty ironic that folks here bemoan the death of brick and mortar hands on stores, but when somebody in one does something to assure they'll be around next year and put a few extra bucks in their pockets, they get reviled for it.
Did they sell ALL the Cake box sets? If so, it seems they priced them right and that handful that bought them may feel they got a bargain IF they had to have it yesterday.
If not, I'm sure they can sell them tomorrow for whatever they want, certainly the $124.99 won't be hard.
BTW, the "S" in MSRP stands for "Suggested", not "mandatory". I don't know as I'm not a store owner, but are there contractual agreements on pricing these goods that the store, artists and distributors are bound to? If Cake doesn't want stores "gouging" they should try to require pricing agreements, otherwise it's just too bad...
I work in a brick and mortar type place in a very small town and I can assure you there are ways to ensure another years survival without gouging people. It's called customer service.