Progwalhalla closes it's online store
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Topic: Progwalhalla closes it's online store
Posted By: Angelo
Subject: Progwalhalla closes it's online store
Date Posted: January 17 2011 at 17:57
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This weekend, I got an e-mail from Hans Galjé that Dutch online store Progwalhalla.nl will close on February 1st. Due to low demand and decreasing margins Hans is no longer able to maintain the store. A close down sale will be organised. ------------- http://www.iskcrocks.com" rel="nofollow - ISKC Rock Radio I stopped blogging and reviewing - so won't be handling requests. Promo's for ariplay can be sent to [email protected] |
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Posted By: toroddfuglesteg
Date Posted: January 17 2011 at 18:19
| This as in the same week as Sony announced closures of the two biggest CD plants in the world. You have to wonder where this world is going. Answers, please. |
Posted By: NotAProghead
Date Posted: January 18 2011 at 01:13
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It's a pity, I remember Hans helped me to find some albums which I could not find somewhere else. ------------- Who are you and who am I to say we know the reason why... (D. Gilmour) |
Posted By: Angelo
Date Posted: January 21 2011 at 12:12
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I don't know where the world is going, depends on where Great A'tuin takes it i guess.... it's a pity indeed. I spent 2 months some years ago to reimplement the web site and the shop, and now Hans is back to being a mail man....
------------- http://www.iskcrocks.com" rel="nofollow - ISKC Rock Radio I stopped blogging and reviewing - so won't be handling requests. Promo's for ariplay can be sent to [email protected] |
Posted By: harmonium.ro
Date Posted: January 21 2011 at 12:39
| Wow, that must mean the sales were very, very tiny. I don't how much this costs in the Netherlands, but in Romania the monthly fee for having the online payment software on your website from one of the two official providers was somewhere around 70 dollars. I suppose PayPal does it even cheaper. |
Posted By: Kotro
Date Posted: January 22 2011 at 07:17
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The only Portuguese physical store specializing in Prog also closed its doors early this month. Yet the indie/alternative ones just keep springing up from ground. What is the world coming to? ------------- Bigger on the inside. |
Posted By: Anthony
Date Posted: January 23 2011 at 08:15
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Damn, that sucks! But I'm surprised that I didn't get that mail at all. ------------- Future prosperity lies in the way you heal the world with love (Introitus - The hand that feeds you) |
Posted By: Angelo
Date Posted: January 23 2011 at 09:14
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I don't know what Hans' strategy is on publishing this. He told people at a prog get together at his house over the weekend, and informed me by e-mail because I have to take the site down on February 1st. @harmonium.ro: keeping the site up costs around 200 euro's a year, the problem for Hans is the amount of stock he has to keep to satisfy people (if they can get it quicker from other sources, they don't come to him) and the margin he can make per CD (which should cover the cost, but also his rent and a daily meal). I don't know the exact numbers, but competition from direct sales at InsideOut and other record companies, iTunes and bands selling their own stuff is huge when it comes to the prog niche of the market. ------------- http://www.iskcrocks.com" rel="nofollow - ISKC Rock Radio I stopped blogging and reviewing - so won't be handling requests. Promo's for ariplay can be sent to [email protected] |
Posted By: Moogtron III
Date Posted: January 23 2011 at 16:32
| Well, it was a very good store. Hans once got me Celeste's classic album Principe Di Un Giorno. I was very glad he could get it for me. |
Posted By: Henry Plainview
Date Posted: January 23 2011 at 17:19
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Huh, that's sad, although I can't say I've ever heard of them before since I'm in the US. The future will probably be people mostly buying albums directly from an artist/indie label, that is what I try to do whenever possible. Resellers are an endangered species.
------------- if you own a sodastream i hate you |
Posted By: ShW1
Date Posted: January 24 2011 at 15:20
Buying directly from the artist could be a bit problematic. not always you want to deal with your favourite artist about demages to CD's (that probably not the artist fault), or delays in sending, or post mistakes etc.
buying from a specific artist/label mean you could buy this artist/label only. The 'Resellers' plus is the possibility to buy different records, from different lables for each purchase.
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Henry Plainview wrote:Posted By: Angelo
Date Posted: August 08 2011 at 13:24
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It's done now. Yesterday I took the site offline for good, after a prolonged closing sale. R.I.P. Progwalhalla. ------------- http://www.iskcrocks.com" rel="nofollow - ISKC Rock Radio I stopped blogging and reviewing - so won't be handling requests. Promo's for ariplay can be sent to [email protected] |