[Murustrictus]

In the last five seconds of bidding on a 7inch record released only a few years ago my bid was still at 10 Euros (Being the first bidder) and within the last 3 seconds two people bid 85 EUR at the same time. What the fuck?

[Barghest]

[Barghest]

[Barghest]

[Valgrinder]

Why labels still make so big deal how limited their releases are. I mean, of course every release is "limited" cause factory needs to know if they make 300, 500 or 1000 copies.

But why to announce it to public? Of course ebayers and collectors use "limited to 300 copies"-card to raise the value of their record. But if you dont say is it limited to 300 or 1500 copies, people who buy multiple copies never know beforehand if their extra copys price ever raise or is it still available from label for years.

Am I wrong but didnt Northern Heritage stopped to announce how big their pressings are? Now people dont know is the pressing so big that its still available or does it just sell badly. Be it any reason but it keeps the ebay prices down.
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[Demoniarch]

When labels first started the hand numbered limited release program, ebay did not exist.
Albums were generally bought and sold via mail order, there was probably not the problem of a single individual trying to buy multiple copies.

The web and online ordering and forums plus add in the ability to run your own store online via ebay etc etc changed everything.

Business practices and models that worked fine before or were part of a underground custom had a adversary overnight almost, and some people are slow to change... to adapt to a new standard of operation, and mind you a label that sells, selling is priority one... at first it was probably great just to sell all the copies, but eventually I bet pissy feelings would grow after you sold all copies at $17 and the guy that bought most of them a month later is now selling the same item at $66 each... so finally some of these labels thought fuck that, and try to spread the releases further than one customer.

I don't care too much how many copies exist myself of something, hopefully enough for everyone that wants one to have it, I really don't see metal as some special secret force that only a handful of people should be allowed to be in. It's a cool scene, but hardly exclusive to some higher ideal.

[Demoniarch]

[Murustrictus]

"Only been played once" and "Never been played" make a huge difference.

[Descension]

[GoldenBull]

Another tactic is to sell a release exclusively. NH does that sometimes and for example the DSO Manifestations LP stayed available for years (despite the limitation and status of the band). Might be a headache for labels though.
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[scentofdeath]

[Demoniarch]

[Fallen_Empire]

[bitewerks]

No clue if Northern Heritage stopped announcing pressing #'s but I know Freak Animal has not listed edition on his recent releases. I also do not know if he did that for any specific reason or not. For my recent LP on Freak ANimal, I had to ask him how many were pressed.

[darkdescentrecords]

I have had people asking me about limitations but I have generally stopped including that info. This hasn't stopped some from making shit up on MA and Discogs. I have seen wrong info and I an not changing it to the right info because I didn't reveal it.
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