Why Do Japanese CDs Cost A Arm and Leg?

[Thinking Aloud]

Used, Japanese, write-once Blu-Ray discs?

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[Bella Fortuna]

Makes me want to know what's written on those used discs!

[cronus]

The Silent World Of Hector Mann, Duke Special on Amazon UK,

1 Used. £15,375.24

Not including postage.

[Bella Fortuna]

Yep...

[Tero]

And postage here just went up a dollar for all Amazon items. Might as well buy directly from Japan.

[cronus]

Domingo Cura Anthology [Import]

On Amazon UK coming in at £20,012.94 ($33,308)for a single audio CD. Explain?

[Hermit]

http://rationalia.com/forum/viewtopic.p ... 8#p1084598 maybe?

I think that is precisely what is behind ridiculously out of scale pricing. The link illustrates the mechanism well.

It's the sort of thing you get when a feedback loop occurs.


The members of an Indian tribe asked their chief about collecting wood for the oncoming winter. The chief agreed that it was a good time to start and so they went out and begin collecting firewood. Two weeks later, they came back to the chief and asked if they had gathered enough firewood for the winter.

The chief replied that he would check and went inside and called the local office of the weather bureau and asked for a forecast for the winter. The meterologist replied, "It's going to be a cold winter."

So the chief told his people to keep gathering wood. Two weeks later, they asked if they had gathered enough firewood. Once again, the chief went inside and called the local office of the weather bureau and asked for a revised forecast for the winter. The meterologist replied, "This is going to be a really cold winter."

The chief relayed this information to the tribe and they kept collecting firewood. After another two weeks, they had gathered a large amount of firewood and so they went to the chief and asked if they had collected enough firewood now.

Once again, the chief called the weather bureau for a revised forecast. The meterologistg replied, "This is going to be the coldest winter we have ever seen."

The chief was surprised at this and asked the meterologist, "How do you know it's going to be the coldest winter ever?"

The reply, "Because I have been watching the local Indians gather firewood for the last month and a half. In all my years with the weather bureau, I have never seen them gather so much firewood before."

[cronus]

Still think its drug dealers, way of making deals whilst bypassing the bank checks for unusual payments.