Good advice I'm going to do this when I start selling my own music.

Originally Posted by scottandrew
Hey everyone,

If you find your CD has been listed at Amazon by someone other than you, you should immediately sign up as a reseller yourself! Offer it at your own price and put a note in your listing that it comes "direct from the artist." That's what I did.

Go here to set it up. It's free:
http://www.amazon.com/gp/seller/sell-your-stuff.html/ref=ss_m_/102-7992459-7899347

Getting a CD listed at Amazon yourself can be very expensive and costly. Amazon also takes a pretty big cut of the sale. But if someone has already listed your CD (either through CD Baby/Super D or as a private reseller) they've already done a lot of the hard stuff for you.

You won't have much luck getting your CD completely removed from Amazon. Anyone can set up a reseller account and list your CD if they have it. Even if you removed it from the CD Baby/Super D program completely, your CD can still be listed by anyone who has a copy to sell.

Likewise, you can't prevent people from selling used copies or undercutting your price. That's the free market for ya.

Regarding the outlandish resale prices: this seems to be the "official" Harvey Auctions website:

http://harveyauctions.gemm.com/

They sell at eBay, Half.com and a bunch of other sites, too.

All CDs are listed at $39.99. It just doesn't make sense. The only thing I can think of is, with thousands of CDs offered across all those sites, multiplied by millions of visitors, all they need is for a few people to buy CDs at the inflated price each day and they make a big profit. Weird, but I don't know if it's illegal.

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