chandler75 wrote:monsterworship wrote:People will add large quantities of each variant to their cart (say 1000), so that it will come back and say there are only X amount available so that they can figure out the "rarity" of each color way.
It messes up the inventory temporarily for everyone else.
Its dumb. Stop it.
I have to admit to doing this, but I'm not sure it's messes up the inventory if you just enter a large enough quantity (say 10,000). Then it's not added to the cart but simply lets you know that only so and so are available.
It's mostly out of curiosity I do it, since it's too expensive to order directly from WW from here in Denmark (including shipping, VAT and postal fees a $40 record will end up costing $100).
If anyone's interested, I think the yellow one is the more limited version. When I checked soon after they went on sale, that one was already down to about 800 copies, while the tri color had about 1800. Since then the tri color has obviously been the big seller and is now down to 360 while the solid yellow is at 700.
Another thing is, I don't know why WW are the only of the labels here that are so secretive about their pressing numbers...
I'm based in the Netherlands and this record cost me 50 euro's to get here. That does include the 18% discount from being a subscriber. Without the discount it would be 6 or 7 euro more expensive. I have never had to pay extra custom duties from any of my purchase from Waxwork or Mondo or some other labels from the US. They always state the value of the contents to 5 or 10 dollars. That means no added custom fee.
Of course in Denmark this could be different, but I doubt it.
I bought the tri-color in stead of the yellow because the yellow probably is the retail variant (Transmission and Little Walter have it). That also could explain the difference in availability through Waxwork's own shop. I can (and mostly will as well) always get that version at a later point in time. Often from retailers in Europe.
Waxwork is not more secretive than the other labels in my opinion. They have stated the numbers for their limited variants in the past (mostly 500). For bigger runs they do not state the amount. The same goes for Mondo/Death Waltz. They do not always state the amount being pressed.
Does it matter? As a collector I love to get the more limited variant. But I buy those to listen to as well. I can't imagine selling my records. These releases are interesting for a lot of people for a lot of different reasons (collector, flipper, score aficionado, movie memorabilia collector, music lover,...).
