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Tape Project thread on AudiogoN
« on: November 18, 2009, 10:53:02 AM »
New thread just started on AudiogoN. No responses yet. Maybe someone from the group here wants to jump in on it.....

http://forum.audiogon.com/cgi-bin/fr.pl?gmusi&1258528706&read&3&zzlApachef1&&
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Re: Tape Project thread on AudiogoN
« Reply #1 on: November 18, 2009, 12:13:41 PM »
Thanks for the heads up Joe.
I put in a reply that are my honest thoughts on the matter.
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Re: Tape Project thread on AudiogoN
« Reply #2 on: November 18, 2009, 12:20:32 PM »
I'm not a member over there so I'll add my comments here and folks can take them there if they wish. Three sets of tapes is 1.5% of our total licensed production capability of 200 copies (of which we don't have very many Series One titles left available). I don't think that is a particularly significant fraction in terms of being able to determine why the tapes are being sold. The simple fact is the economic crunch affected a lot of folks - though we seem to be coming out of that and subscriptions are really up lately. Earlier in the year we had very remorseful calls from a few Charter subscribers who were in financial straights and who could not renew for Series Two, and I can imagine those same folks might be the ones who were selling their Series One tapes.
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