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Notice how these titles are in the "Price Busters"
series. This was just CEMA's term for
their budget-line. Most labels have a Full-line,
Mid-line, and Budget-line. Most budget-line
CDs carry an $11.98 Manufacturer's Suggested
List Price...however CEMA's "Price Busters"
had a $12.98 MSLP. Notice below how the code
"C21Y" precedes the item's stock #.
The "C"=Capitol (to distinguish from other CEMA
labels like Blue Note, Chrysalis, ect.)
The "21Y" is one of the codes for $12.98 MSLP.
CEMA had several different $12.98 list
codes, with different wholesale costs even though
the suggested retail price was the same.
At this point in time, a C21Y with a MSLP of $12.98
had a standard wholesale cost of $7.87
for box lot orders. (Any quantities less than
box-lot carried an additional 15 cents per unit penalty)
These new titles had a 20% deal in effect at the
time of release. That plus the additional
2% discount for prompt payment made our net cost
about $6.14 per CD. Also being a large
wholesale distributor, all shipments to us from
the manufacturers came "Freight Prepaid".
Freight is a major expense, but because incoming
shipments to us were prepaid, we never
had to pass that cost along to our accounts (record
shops and other wholesalers).
On the sheet below, notice how Capitol didn't know how to spell Stone Poneys...
At this time all of CEMA's New Release Product for the US market
was being shipped from their Jacksonville, Illinois Pressing Plant.
As usual
a Street Date Notification came with our initial order of these
titles.
Notice how they didn't spell "Ronstadt" correctly on the 4 titles by
her.
Two months later, the three Stone Poneys' albums were released on CD
for the first time.
Below is the Street Date Notification for CEMA's new releases
that week. Obviously a
slow week for them, and they had time to spell better.
Since the deal pricing was about to run out on many of these titles,
this order was placed to stock up
before the standard cost took effect. The document below is a Skid-Sheet...not
an invoice or even
a Packing Slip...just a double-check by CEMA that the correct amount
of units actually left the
Jacksonville plant on this sealed shipping pallet. I can't remember
how many we had already sold
before this order, but another 100 CDs of each of the 7 titles were
ordered on 8 June 1995.
As far as their spelling...the 4 titles previously as "Rondstadt" are
correct below
...but the 3 titles with correct spelling before are now wrong...
.
5
of these 7 new release Ronstadt CDs were cut out in 1997...Click here for
details