Why the huge price difference?

Posted by: Sniper on 12 April 2018

I saw this is on Amazon and wondered why the huge price difference. Any ideas?

 

Katie Melua - Call Off The Search - Original Pressing

  • Vinyl

    from $899.99
     
  • MP3 Music

    $5.99
     
  • Audio CD

    $7.38Prime
Posted on: 12 April 2018 by winkyincanada

Many Amazon prices are set by algorithms that try anticipate the highest price someone would pay. The LP would be that price because of things like a lot of searches and perhaps just one for sale (for example). The seller essentially ticks a box that is "get best price" rather than specifying a price directly. Amazon's algorithms and data analysis then gets to work.

Posted on: 12 April 2018 by joerand

The obvious answer is that vinyl sounds that much better than CD or MP3 .

It must have been a very limited LP release. These are sometimes as low as 500 copies. Current price on Discogs for said LP is $321-$556. Said CD on that same site starts at $0.35.

Posted on: 13 April 2018 by Rich 1

Greed! 

Posted on: 13 April 2018 by analogmusic

buy a chord mojo instead of a USD 900 LP.

crazy.

Posted on: 17 April 2018 by DUPREE

https://www.discogs.com/sell/release/580371?ev=rb

This is a valuable pressing, it's worth about 300-500 bucks. The amazon listing is over-priced but not by an order of magnitude. 

Posted on: 17 April 2018 by christoph

Thanks for this, i have found the „piece by piece“ in my collection.