UMG in bed with eBay

[jimac51]

Universal Music Group has opened a store within eBay,offering new releases,catalog items,artist memorabilia as well as "hard-to-find" music,12" singles,classical vinyl records and imports. Many items have a buy it now feature. Rhino has done this from time to time,I believe with proceeds always going to a charity. EMI tried this,too, a while back. When EMI's Blue Note still had a forum,I questioned the ethics of profitting from excessive monies while the artists received only due royalties,not a cut of the action. For whatever reason,the EMI store seemed to be short lived. The question of ethics does not come into play with UMG,but I guess it will be interesting to see if any A&M stuff shows up. A brief look at the store shows a large amount of Special Product items at so-so "Buy It Now" prices and midline 2Oth Century Masters items at equally yawn-inducing prices,but they include the two Maria Conchita Alonso SP titles. An autographed BonJovi guitar is supposed to be featured on Thursday as kind of a grand openig item,though they appear to have been quietly operating since July 1st...we'll see. Mac

 

[jimac51]

For the record,while re-reading the feedback of the store,Universal evidently was doing a trial run July,2002,not 2003. It ran from July thru September 2002,then mystriously started up again yesterday. Mac

 

[Rudy]

What's their eBay ID? Worth checking.

 

[rmos]

They're calling themselves the Universal Music Store:


http://www.stores.ebay.com/store=58036930

 

[Rudy]

Hey Chris! How ya doin'?

 

[rmos]

N,

Doing just fine! I'm at work right now, and probably shouldn't be on the internet right now!

This may be OT, but what's happening over at Nipper's Place? I had to sign up again with a new user name in order to post messages!?!

 

[Rudy]

Weird...did it lose your old username, or would it just not log in?

 

[Harry]

For the record, and continuing off-topic, I've been 'denied access' at Nippers Place here at work. No trouble from home.

Harry

 

[rmos]

Weird...did it lose your old username, or would it just not log in?

It lost my old user name ........

 

[Rudy]

Chris--don't know what happened. Very strange, but I put your "rmos" username back in your old profile and reset the password. You can go in and have the system send you a new temporary password, or I can make up a temporary one and e-mail it to you.

Wish I could merge your new user ID with your old one...although I'm thinking I might be able to do an SQL query and change all of your "new" ID posts to the old ones.

 

[rmos]

Thanks, Neil! I'm heading to Nippers Place now!

[Just for the record, I tried to e-mail (or is it PM?) you in Nippers Place but I never got a response, that's why I asked you about the problem here.]