Hey Frank- I didn't take it as a judgement so no worries there. There's a long and interesting story about Rubadub's development from a 100% vinyl shop to our current incarnation but I just ain't got the time to write it all out I'm afraid!
We still get repeat business from most of our Serato customers in terms of replacement carts and needles, headphones, the ever growing range of Serato accessories and bags, record cleaning cloths, cables, replacement power supplies and more.... Business models aren't our speciality- we're just trying to survive on a day to day business in an ever changing world and promote good music. cheers Jason 2008/9/29 Frank Glazer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Ah, see, my point has nothing to do with morals nor ethics. In my > understanding the OP works for a music shop, rubadub if i'm not > mistaken, a shop that most likely relies on repeat business by paying > customers of music media, not just music gear. Sure, there are going > to be people who use it legitimately, but if the OP's point was that > most people just steal music, it's ironic at least and really bad > business at worst that they're enabling their own lack of repeat > business. Dig? After all, even the legitimate users of mp3s are not > going to do (much) repeat media business at the shop. They're going > to go to traxsource.com or junodownload.com or beatport.com, or any of > the many other legitimate online music stores. As far as I can tell > rubadub does not yet have an online music shop. So, while I didn't > really mean to judge rubadub's decision to sell serato (notice my > original post made no judgement other than that it's interesting) you > have to admit that it does say something. I'd love to hear what else > Jason or anybody in the rubadub crew has to say about their business > model in this regard. > > On Mon, Sep 29, 2008 at 7:44 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Why should it? One might advocate taking the choice of whether to break the >> law out of the hands of the individual with technology >> when it came to say, gun control. But in this case when there's a perfectly >> legit way to use such gear why should a shop then have >> to stop selling it because some people (even if the majority) are not using >> it in a "legal" and possibly not "moral" way. They're >> the ones ripping people off - if that's what they're doing (which doesn't >> mean to say I don't think they are, I'm just trying not to >> be involved in that argument while this other bit seems clear cut to me). >> >> >>> From: Frank Glazer [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] >>> Sent: 29 September 2008 12:29 >>> >>> interestingly this hasn't stopped you from selling serato. >>> >>> On Mon, Sep 29, 2008 at 6:23 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >>> wrote: >>> > A very quick interjection from me! >>> > >>> > We're a record retailer but we also sell DJ and Studio equipment- we >>> > currently sell around 10 Serato systems a week and the number has been >>> > growing steadily over the last 2 years. Almost without fail the >>> > customer will tell us with a big grin on their faces that Serato is >>> > great because "I don;t need to pay for music anyomore- I just download >>> > it for free". It's so short sighted it almost beggars belief- the >>> > majority of these people are actually taking pride in getting >>> > something for "nothing". >> >> > > > > -- > peace, > > frank > > dj mix archive: http://www.deejaycountzero.com >
