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Beatport v3.0 is up (pg. 5)
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| Ariah |
| It is still in dollars for me... But Norway uses neither pounds or euros, so maybe that's why |
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| flavdave |
| quote: | Originally posted by PHg
My downloads max out at 50-75 kb/s, whereas I can get close to the speed you mentioned at all the other major download stores.
Don't be so naïve... marketing talk |
As someone with a marketing degree, I can tell you that their pricing changes seem justified to me. |
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| PHg |
| quote: | Originally posted by flavdave
As someone with a marketing degree, I can tell you that their pricing changes seem justified to me. |
As someone with a degree in business economics, I can tell you they don't seem justified to me. |
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| flavdave |
| quote: | Originally posted by THE_Chris
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To remain competitive you must keep your prices BELOW the other digital stores, not raise your prices to match them. |
That's not necessarily true. If they price too low, their margins will suffer, they'll lose money, and go out of business. And as discussed earlier, the record labels probably put pressure on them to raise the prices in order to get more money from sales to go back to the labels/artists.
It's evident now that they've chosen to compete on product differentiation, rather than price. Hopefully that means they will focus on the complaints that customers have about certain aspects of the site, such as the display of the track times. |
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| PHg |
| quote: | Originally posted by flavdave
That's not necessarily true. If they price too low, their margins will suffer, they'll lose money, and go out of business. And as discussed earlier, the record labels probably put pressure on them to raise the prices in order to get more money from sales to go back to the labels/artists. |
So you actually think that the consumers, affected by the price raise, will increase the overall price in their baskets? Total sales volume to euro countries and the UK will certainly suffer, they'll just start buying less to compensate for the price hike. And this consumer reaction is bound to be much stronger, given that Beatport increased its prices by this much. |
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| flavdave |
| quote: | Originally posted by PHg
So you actually think that the consumers, affected by the price raise, will increase the overall price in their baskets? Total sales volume to euro countries and the UK will certainly suffer, they'll just start buying less to compensate for the price hike. And this consumer reaction is bound to be much stronger, given that Beatport increased its prices by this much. |
I agree with you that some customers will buy less tracks because of the price increase. But I don't think it will be a huge decrease in overall sales if they're still in line with the prices at other digital stores. What's the difference between a £1.99 track from Beatport and a £1.99 track from Audiojelly? The only difference now is the way in which the product is delivered to you. If you like the Beatport site and you are happy with the download speed then you will shop there. If you like the way Audiojelly is set up more, then you will shop there. What I stated in my previous post is that now Beatport should be focusing on their product differentiation because they're no longer the price leader. This could be good news because they can work on making the site better. |
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| PHg |
You're now assuming that stores won't be competing based on pricing and exclusivity... the exclusive tracks will be more expensive, for the others pricing, website overview (how easy can you stumble upon a track) and speed will still be key. Beatport really loses out on those final two points, and the pricing aspect is variable. The main loss for Beatport with this move is goodwill though, and that's particularly hard to replace.
And the service offering from Beatport with version 3 is lousy, and then to think that they have been my no. 1 downloadstore since early 2004. |
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| Orko |
| quote: | Originally posted by jonski
Of all the Mp3 DJ shops, Beatport is the only one with a half-decent search engine. Actually being able to search by a particular parameter (Title, label, artist, etc..) then filter and sort should be a standard, not a premium. Now every track is tagged with a genre, so you can quickly jump hyperlinked around from label to genre and artist and "browse" tunes.
I don't know how you guys listen to new music, but I find all the other mp3 sites amateurish and convoluted. And most half tiered pricing which is not something I am interested in.
BP will aways be my default shop. |
Over all, I think you are right, in the fact that its easy to brows their collection.
THe one thing I would like to see when its working, is the mixes section. If their prices are reasonable, I would buy mixes in full cd quality. Does anybody know if it will still only be a $1 charge for a WAV copy of a mix? |
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| nico1981 |
| quote: | Originally posted by movingincircles
they still dont accept paypal?
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yes, that sucks :whip: |
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| bobba lou |
| now they can sell user stats, yay! :S |
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| IcyLogik |
| I like it. Its easier for me to find music I like, plus the my beatport thing is pretty awsome. Still some bugs in it, but its still a beta I guess. |
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| Trance Android |
The new layout works for me.
...but they've lost another customer. I'll no longer be using them for anything other than to browse for new releases thanks to the 50% increase in prices :whip:
I dunno this whole pricing structure sucks balls these days. The whole point is that you can buy individual remixes if you don't like all of the tracks on each release & they were always priced at a level where you might as well buy it instead of downloading a ty P2P rip. The prices were always about 70p to £1.25 per track & life was good.
Recently prices have increased to £1.50 per track then £1.99 per track. A vinyl record costs around £6 but you get up to 4 mixes on it. These days digital downloads costs just as much if not more (it's now likely to be £8 for the same 4 mixes).
It's the same as anything, lure customers in then when they're comfortable with it, ramp up the prices. Someone, somewhere is getting greedy.
There's around 4 or 5 really big players in the EDM digital download scene. I'm not suggesting this is happening if any lawyers are reading, but it is possible that between them, the big players could potentially keep prices artificially higher than they need to be. If everyone toes the line & prices at a certain level, the market will be spread evenly therefore with no price war all the big players are kept happy. I believe there was an investigation into this scenario recently in the air travel industry. |
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