Klarinet Archive - Posting 000948.txt from 1997/07

From: Robin Fairbairns <Robin.Fairbairns@-----.uk>
Subj: Re: British pound -Reply
Date: Fri, 1 Aug 1997 00:18:18 -0400

> On the subject of British pounds, I noticed that in London the price of a CD
> is about 60% higher than it is in the states. IOW, what is $14 here is 14
> pounds in the UK, and many of these CDs are produced in the UK. Why the big
> difference?

I think it's to do with market size. And the fact that they seem to
be able to get away with it.

One of the papers ran a campaign at one stage saying "never buy a CD
unless it's discounted", but this doesn't work if you're after a
particular performance. We even had a Select Committee of Parliament
do a report saying the things were too expensive...

For some inscrutable reason, CDs are _even more_ expensive in
Continental Europe, even though we have a single market throughout the
EU.