Joe's hitting the nail on the head. There is no money in bootlegging an unknown artist's cds. Why do it?

On Times Square, they're not trying to sell you bootleg copies of unknown watches and purses, they try to sell fake Gucci's and Rolex's. They don't sell bootleg copies of unknown art house movies, they sell copies of the big Hollywood hits.

This is a Trolling Broker (tm 2007 Mike Dunbar). As Joe says, these folks don't have copies of the cds. They say "used" as a come on, my theory, as I've stated, is that they want you to think they're bootlegging so you'll buy one of your cds from them at an inflated price for proof. If so, that's fraud, they don't have a copy, they don't want a copy.

You can go to an independent cd distributor and offer to buy cds for, let's say, a buck and a half. Offer to take all they'll sell you at a buck and a half apiece. They'll sell you truckloads. Then take them home and try to sell them online for forty bucks? Well, what's the difference.

Nobody's going to buy unknown cds for forty bucks a crack. They're not even going to buy known cds for forty bucks a crack unless they're collectors items. Are you getting people emailing you begging you for your cds because they can't get them? Have you sold out at cdbaby? If not, then why worry about this? Now, maybe we can get Amazon to do something about one guy, but the practice will continue just like those emails about some Nigerian countess who wants you to cash her ten thousand dollar check and she'll give you two thousand. You can stop one, but others pop up.

In the meantime, I'm going to have a sale on my cds. You can buy them at cdbaby for twenty bucks, but this week only I'll sell them to you for thirty five...that's five bucks off of Amazon's price. Come and get 'em.

Mike

You've got to know your limitations. I don't know what your limitations are. I found out what mine were when I was twelve. I found out that there weren't too many limitations, if I did it my way. -Johnny Cash

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