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Say Goodbye to BuyMusic.com
dark_lotus writes "Spymac.com today is reporting
that an e-mail sent to prior customers of BuyMusic.com,
informing them that BuyMusic.com is being merged into the parent site, Buy.com.
Spymac reports: BuyMusic.com initially expected to sell one million songs
per day or 200 to 300 in the first year according to estimates
by founder and CEO Scott Blum. When re-interviewed in December, Blum offered no
statistics, but did say, 'We're nowhere near Apple's
numbers.'"
who?
I'm not sure I've even heard of this site...
Well there's your problem right there. Let's see, either one million songs per day -OR- 200 to 300 in the first year. Yessir, typically fuzzy CEO math led to the downfall, I'd say. On the other hand, while that first target was quite high, the second target was easy to exceed. Why I bet I could sell 200 to 300 songs in a year by standing on the street corner.
1) Thing is released
2) Slashdotters deride Thing and has say it has no chance and will fail miserably
3) Thing fails miserably
Folks, let's stop and reflect. This isn't a sequence of events we see too often. And we may not see it again until-- well-- until Infinium has to either release a product or go bankrupt. So, um, may.
They ran a lot of ads when it launched with Tommy Lee smashing the same model of guitar that Apple featured on the iTunes portion of their site.
:-)
Bad karma right there. Never fsck with a company who's CEO has a Reality Distortion Field.
"Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former."
Bad karma right there. Never fsck with a company who's CEO has a Reality Distortion Field. :-)
...most CEOs seem to have their own personally issued one. Never fsck with one that has an industrial strength generator tho.
Kjella
Live today, because you never know what tomorrow brings
"Spymac.com today is reporting that an e-mail sent to prior customers of BuyMusic.com, informing them that BuyMusic.com is being merged into the parent site, Buy.com."
Oh, dear. How I long for the days of complete sentences.
$ echo "ceci n'est pas une pipe" | sed -Ee 's/(eci n|pas )//g'
did anyone got a close look a their logo?
Get Loaded(tm)
that's it! I'm trademarking hangovers from now on!
Don't count them out yet. While the "last mile" problem into trailer parks has slowed acceptance, more park operators are now providing WAP coverage for that "Wi-Fi thang".
One line blog. I hear that they're called Twitters now.
I run an adult link list, IE is still going strong
Proof positive that IE users are wankers.
I didn't find any Metallica albums there...
I subscribe to a lot of "teen beat" type magazines, and I find out the address to write to the band. I put a buck in an envelope, I write a quick letter explaining why I sent the buck, and express my gratitude to the artists for making the songs available on the internet.
So far, nobody has complained, and I have lots of music for $1/album.
BuyMusic.com didn't make a key investment--dancing silhouettes! Apple has the coolness factor that other tech companies lack.
When first introduced BuyMusic.com had giant Billboards In Time Square NYC and ran ads on TV spoofing the then Apple iTMS ads. They ran out of money. Scott Blum now sells seashells by the seashore.