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mark indigo
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RE: Affedis prices (in reply to Paul Magnussen)
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I doubt if he's paying them royalties. good point. The really odd thing is the disparity between the books and the indvidual transcriptions. As far as I can tell the books are made with the co-operation of the artists (he mentions in the introductions that he transcribes from special video sessions he as with them as well as the original cd's), and the books seem more accurate than the individual transcriptions. The prices are now about 20 Euro's per transcription, but if you buy the books they work out about 5 or 6 Euro's per piece. And the books are professionally printed, neater and better laid out (and you get standard notation too). So the books pay the artist royalties, are more accurate, better printed and are cheaper.... how does that work? I used to think that the prices for individual transcriptions were ok, because although they were about 20 Euro's each, there was a reduction in price if you bought 2 and bigger saving if you bought 3, so I would always buy 3 at once, but that offer seems to have gone now. The only incentive to buy more is the "free" offers. So if you want one of the "free" tabs you have to spend 60 Euro's on tabs you dont want to get the freebie. If you don't want any of them there is no incentive. This is crazy. I think he should make them priced about 5 or 6 Euro's each (in line with the books), and available to download (saving him printing and paper costs).
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Date Dec. 15 2010 21:51:11
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mark indigo
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RE: Affedis prices (in reply to frhout)
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I used to buy 3 at a time, now I'd would have to buy 7 to get the price down to 13 Euros you would have to buy 7, as you say, but that is AVERAGE price, and includes FREE transcriptions, so you would buy 7 tabs for 133 Euros, and get 3 free. The average cost of the 10 is 13.30 Euros, but THE AVERAGE COST OF THE 7 YOU ARE BUYING IS STILL 19 EUROS!!!! so he gives the impression that he is selling for 13 Euros when that is the average including free tabs, not the average of the ones you pay for, so it is giving a false impression - maybe he thinks we can only count up to 12 and can't do maths and work out his real prices? and to get his free tabs you have to buy tabs you maybe don't really want to get them - this is insane and the books still work out much much better value, cheaper, more accurate, better presented, and pay the original artist for their colaboration
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Date Dec. 16 2010 12:37:13
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