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>I'm sure most of us could point out many inexpensive discs in our local
>stores that just sit on the shelves month after month.  Consumers are
>wary of cheap prices without confidence of fine performances.

I might be misunderstanding your point but how do you know that as they
are being sold, a clerk then restocks the same inexpensive discs. This
topic has been brought up before but I thought that inexpensive discs
brought in a decent profit for stores (Circuit City, Best Buy, Media
Play, etc.) and that these discs were targeted to uneducated consumers.
I do not think most consumers have any idea of quality as to performance,
recording, or what classical music is.  I know this was the case with
Circuit City some time back and was true for other stores as well. When
Circuit City first started to sell CD's they lost money on full price
CD's (though cheaper than music stores--non classical as well) but made
money on the classical cheapies and made sure it was kept well stock and
in plain view. So it can have the appearance of sitting on the shelves
month after month--if it has dust on it then that is a different story.

Glenn Miller