Companies Connected By the Hip

I ask if anybody knows the answer to this question, as it seems that these three vendors have the exact same sales on at the exact same times. When one lowers their pricing, the others do exactly the same to the minute! When one has X on special at Y price, all three are doing the exact same thing...IOW, their pricing is identical across the board. Their timing in regards to their specials and their discounts...exactly the same...what gives?
Oh, Acoustic sounds and Music Direct have slightly different shipping prices, with Acoustic sounds offering free shipping over $99 and Music Direct over $49...but that would seem to be the ONLY difference between these vendors!

If I didn’t know better, I would think they were owned by the very same principals, which if true, maybe should be disclosed.

A lot of attention to marketing, IOW...making sure that they do NOT compete with one another, is that what you are referring to?:agree:

No.

So how else do you account for such amazing consistency throughout the years in their sales, and other offerings?

One moves and literally within minutes ( actually not even that,the releases are timed to be identical), the other two are doing exactly the same..anybody able to answer my thread title?

BTW, you don’t happen to be employed by one of these folks, do you?

A little conspiratorial, wouldn't you say?

Why don't you throw Amazon into the plot, too? They change their prices to match competitors.

There is nothing new about matching a competitor's price. As a retailer, I used to do that with Best Buy, which was across the street. I wouldn't be surprised if there was an Internet service which uses algorithms to monitor prices and that all three record suppliers subscribe to it. It's a lot easier explanation than Jeff Bezos owns everything.

Only if that is what’s going on.
Matching a competitors pricing after the fact is one thing. However, the exact same sales and sale amounts to the minute, maybe that’s another!

You're really pushing this issue to the edge, @daveyf.

If a company makes the decision to be competitive with their competition, I could see automating this whole process. For example, say Acoustic Sounds decides to put the Dropkick Murphys on sale for St. Patrick's Day. Music Direct's monitoring service detects this. The two companies' computers take over and prices for the band's albums on MD's website automatically follow suit. An email is sent to MD's sales manager, saying the change was made, who can then adjust the price further up or down if that seems better (I also imagine there would be some limit on how much the automation could lower a price.).

Admittedly this is speculation on my part but my scenario makes a whole lot more sense than your collusion one.

Re-read my two posts above. What you state doesn’t follow with what I am talking about.


BTW, accusing me of pushing this issue to the edge is interesting, since you are doing exactly the same thing....same question to you...are you one of these companies employees?

Interesting how Myke has gone radio silent with this very same question! lol!

I said all I have to say. It's not getting across, so there's no point.
Music Direct is so not connected to any other retailer, it's laughable.
If you actually knew Chad Kassem's backstory, you'd know Acoustic Sounds is only part of his empire, and I'm proud of him.
Elusive Disc ? Also not connected, owned by a friend of @guitarded , who knows a helluva lot more than I do, but I leave it to him to choose to post, or not.
Living on a pension, I wish I had a piece of any of them. :laugh:

Ok, so please answer my question...are you in some way connected to any of these organizations? That was my question to you before, and it still stands unanswered.:wave:

Oh, one last thing...to MYKE, your avatar happens to be the exact same recording ( of thousands that they could have picked ) as the one that Music Direct is currently using for their 10% off sale on their web site....pure coincidence, right?

Now I know you're trolling. Our host and Kevin Gray remastered the 45 rpm vinyl, and it's a tradition to celebrate it's superior SQ at this time of the year.

Are you kidding me with this ****? Arch rivals. For many, many years. Watching each other like hawks..