Can anyone shed any light on the logic behind Apple’s pricing structure hopefully highlighted in the attached pic? Beyond me, I can tell you.
https://www.flickr.com/gp/150522845@N04/nw64v4
Does anyone remember logic?
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Well that’s annoying. How do I get my pic to be visible?
Got it.
http://i.imgur.com/RdlZDaI.png
Woo hoo! Any suggestions?
I’m not up on flikr, but I was able to click on the link in the thread preview (but not in the body of the thread) and from there I put it into Imgur
Ah cool – though I meant any suggestions re pricing shenanigans. 🙂
Ah, sorry. No it all seems very strange. Why would one album cost three times the price of another? It don’t make sense. Mind you I’m not a Rush aficionado so…
They’re overpricing them to stop the Rush…
Surely those prices are what you have to pay to stop them doing a U2 on you…
The one at 14.99 probably has a bunch of extra tracks – as for the rest – record labels have the option of submitting music at different price points – so some albums will be at discount prices on the request of the label. This is usually older material, a bit like those vinyl releases that had ‘Nice Price’ stickers on or the cheap CDs in Fopp- same applies for mp3 (albeit that’s rapidly dwindling and I’m sure the loony pricing isn’t a concern for Apple as they’d rather you hooked up with their streaming service)
Paying £6-8 for a bog standard catalogue download is daylight robbery though – I’m no Rush expert but I’m sure you could get these on CD or second hand vinyl for way less than the dowload price.
Dr V , not pertinent to the original post, but what exactly is a ‘price point’? I’ve only ever heard it (together with ‘pricing strategy’) where it seems to just mean ‘price’, i.e. how much you are asking for the goods. Is it any more than that ?
Bizarrely the one at £14.99 has no bonus tracks, not only that it has only six tracks and is less than 40 minutes long. I’ve no real issue with the pricing of the others (I’ve got them all on vinyl or CD already) as the plan is to eventually digitise them all anyway. Interestingly I’ve seen the US pricing of these and there’s no such obvious outlier. Odd.