December 17, 201212 yr £10 is perfectly reasonable for a new album TBH. If you wait a couple of weeks they tend to end up in the 2 for £15 offer in HMV too. But a lot of people just don't have that money to spare. The point is that if HMV want to stay in the market, they need to reduce their prices by a few extra quid. HMV would probably make a bigger profit as well because a few less pounds would be in the range of the average person to spend. It's just like reducing songs to 59p on iTunes. It would work!
December 17, 201212 yr What other decent Christmas presents cost less than £10? A Nature's Extracts shower gel collection costs £1.75 from Marks & Spencer, for example.
December 17, 201212 yr But a lot of people just don't have that money to spare. The point is that if HMV want to stay in the market, they need to reduce their prices by a few extra quid. HMV would probably make a bigger profit as well because a few less pounds would be in the range of the average person to spend. It's just like reducing songs to 59p on iTunes. It would work! How much do you think HMV have to pay record companies for the CD's in the first place? Then add on VAT before you even start to make any profit
December 17, 201212 yr A Nature's Extracts shower gel collection costs £1.75 from Marks & Spencer, for example. Exactly, there are SO many other (better in most cases) gifts you can get someone rather than an overpriced CD. A tenner would be a good price for a Now CD, not for a 12 track album though. I think HMV just need to adjust the pricing, only a little though as you can get good deals there, maybe introduce a used section?
December 17, 201212 yr A Nature's Extracts shower gel collection costs £1.75 from Marks & Spencer, for example. Maybe it's a generational thing but I could never compare the thrill of getting a new cd full of music by an artist I love to getting some shower gel.
December 17, 201212 yr How much do you think HMV have to pay record companies for the CD's in the first place? Then add on VAT before you even start to make any profit If that's the case, then CDs need to be made cheaper to sell, by using card instead of plastic to make CDs.
December 17, 201212 yr Still. It's an absolute joke for the average person, no wonder album sales are down at the moment. album sales going down has NOTHING to do with high prices since they are lower now than ever in the UK .... When I was in the UK in the summer I went to HMV Oxford Street and I bought many new releases for 5 £ each such as Rihanna, Kelly Clarkson, Bruno Mars, Madonna , Nicki Minaj, Keane and many others which in mainland Europe or in my country Lebanon would have cost me 20 $ each.. So the price excuse is irrelevant... It's all about Internet downloads, mostly free ones + cherry picking thru iTunes which mostly killed the album market in an irreversible way....
December 17, 201212 yr If that's the case, then CDs need to be made cheaper to sell, by using card instead of plastic to make CDs. Not related to this but oh well...are you on school holidays already! :o I have another week yet!
December 17, 201212 yr Cd's in the UK i find are much cheaper, i know in the local shops i use to buy cd;s which are now Tesco, Heatons and Xtra Vision and new cd release cost 13-15 euro which is expensive. I dont live near a hmv but outside the deals 2 for 20 etc cds are usually around€15. I do think price plays a price in the decline of hmv, i do alot of online shopping for cd's and dvds and i find hmv way more expensive than others and i think many people have the same perception of the high street version too on the back of that.
December 17, 201212 yr Not related to this but oh well...are you on school holidays already! :o I have another week yet! I go to a special needs private school, so I get school holidays earlier. :kink: (I don't pay the fees in case anyone thinks I'm rich or whatever - the council pays them for me)
December 17, 201212 yr A Nature's Extracts shower gel collection costs £1.75 from Marks & Spencer, for example. errr.... :blink: what's that got to do with this thread topic, why does every topic on here goes completely pete tong. I give up
December 17, 201212 yr A Nature's Extracts shower gel collection costs £1.75 from Marks & Spencer, for example. I may have to pay a trip to M&S :lol: I agree that HMV need to reduce prices. They sell DVDs at RRP too, when you can easily get them for several ££ cheaper online even on release day, or wait a few months and get them for a couple of quid second hand. They need a second hand album section with drastically reduced prices!
December 17, 201212 yr HMV have a small pre-owned section (or at least my one does). I guess they're either barely worth trading in, or people trade them in to more obvious shops like CEX or give them to charity shops? Also, whoever mentioned That's Entertainment, I think they sell old previously unshipped copies or refurbished copies like Poundland do, because they're able to sell them at next to nothing (as little as 6 for £5) alot of the time. HMV haven't caught onto that bandwagon though, instead offering the same albums in their 2 for £10 section... Edited December 17, 201212 yr by Blitzen
December 17, 201212 yr HMV have a small pre-owned section (or at least my one does). I guess they're either barely worth trading in, or people trade them in to more obvious shops like CEX or give them to charity shops? Also, whoever mentioned That's Entertainment, I think they sell old previously unshipped copies or refurbished copies like Poundland do, because they're able to sell them at next to nothing (as little as 6 for £5) alot of the time. HMV haven't caught onto that bandwagon though, instead offering the same albums in their 2 for £10 section... That's Entertainment makes me sob :cry: I go in there and see albums from my childhood or albums I treasure for like 75p and just feel violated
December 17, 201212 yr I don't think albums are too expensive - HMV can be a bit saucy at times (in Ireland it's generally €15 for a new album, which leads to me almost always ordering CDs off Amazon), but if an album is selling for £10, that's completely reasonable. I mean, on iTunes a new album sells for £7.99, sometimes £8.99. £10 is more expensive, but only just. Once you take into account the cost of packaging then I'm sure the price difference is minimal. You simply can't say "well, they should make them cheaper anyway" - for all we know their profit margins on albums are razor thin, there may not be any room to cut prices. Of course, if albums were cheaper, more people would buy them. That's just common sense. That doesn't mean albums are too expensive though, that just means the consumer is too cheap.
December 17, 201212 yr It's no wonder that HMV are going down the drain. I tried to buy the Justice Collective and the James Arthur singles in there earlier, but I looked anywhere and there was none to be found. I spent my time looking for albums instead and all of the good albums were £10. I had nine pounds and I thought that was too much for an album. Why can't the albums cost £7-£8 pounds, there are some chart albums that sell for less on iTunes. Honestly. Honestly? Back when I was your age, the year was 2004 and album sales were at there strongest. You could not get a new album for cheaper than £12. Albums for people my age were usually saved for birthdays/Christmases (and singles had already become to expensive to bother with). So price has very little to do with it. And to assume your are an average person is a bit crazy since your not even earning. It's almost as stupid a statement as when you said Radio 1 should cater to teens and only teens (these teens who cannot afford albums at their cheapest). Exposure to new music I feel is what is lacking. No Top of the Pops, no interest in music channels and every TV show only seeming to bother booking Emeli bloody Sande as a guest. That and the fact that single download sales have surged. I never thought I'd say it, but some young people don't know they're born.
December 17, 201212 yr It's definitely more interesting to shop for albums/DVDs at HMV, I could spend hours in there...... But nowadays, it's simply more logical to buy albums and DVDs on the internet to save money.
December 17, 201212 yr £10 is FINE for a 12 track album. As mentioned above, albums on Itunes go for only just less than that usually at 8/9 quid. Also, I saw quite a lot of albums today for around 7/8 quid and there's also the 2 for £10 option which is perfect if you have a gift card. Admittedly, the album I bought today was £12 which seems a just a little bit overboard, but I really don't think prices are the big issue here. Its sad that the market for physical music is giving in. Me and my family have long used physical albums as a gift and I still much prefer having a physical copy than a digital. The end of HMV wouldn't necessarily mean its over, but its undoubtedly foreshadowing the end of the physical album :(
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