AmazonMP3's lost pricing advantage over iTunes

[moore746]

A quick scan of the best sellers on AmazonMP3 shows that over the last few days almost all songs have been moved up to the $1.29 price point. Gone are the $0.50 and $0.99 discounts. Has anyone seen any news about this? Thoughts?

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[Lozzy]

Slowly catching up towards Australia's $2.19

[spoonabdul3]

i use AMAZON MP3. bc they have amazing deals on entire albums! i mean a few weeks ago i got Mariah Careys GH for 3.99. thats like 40 songs. over the past month ive purchased many GH hits cds for 2.99. britney and others.

[Caviar]

Their $1.99 deals are to DIE for. That's the reason why I bought "Unorthodox Jukebox".

[Au$tin]

Mar 20, 2013 14:30:57 GMT -5 Lozzy said:

Slowly catching up towards Australia's $2.19

Ew. Why is Australia's so high? That's like $2.29 in US money.

[onehitwonder]

I also use Amazon but it seems like they're 1-2 weeks behind iTunes when it comes to most new releases.

[KeepDeanWeird]

I'm glad you pointed out the $1.29. I noticed that the other day. I doubt the .50 deals are gone. They usually do a "10-pack" of .50 songs every few weeks. The $1.99 and $2.99 CD will still be around - it's a great way for them to build up the cloud since all Amazon Mp3 purchases do NOT count against cloud capacity.

[🅳🅸🆂🅲🅾]

Though I do use iTunes to play my music, I make most of my digital purchases at AmazonMP3. Their sales and special deals are really nice.

Mar 21, 2013 13:32:36 GMT -5 Caviar said:

Their $1.99 deals are to DIE for. That's the reason why I bought "Unorthodox Jukebox".

I bought Macklemore & Ryan Lewis album when they had it at that price a few weeks ago. I didn't love every track, but I liked enough of them and it was a great deal.

Mar 24, 2013 7:23:24 GMT -5 onehitwonder said:

I also use Amazon but it seems like they're 1-2 weeks behind iTunes when it comes to most new releases.

For the most part they have the albums at the same times as other stores. Sometimes artists have a 1 week exclusive deal with iTunes or they release it to them 1 week before it actually will be released on CD and to other digital retailers.

Considering the deals they do on some recent and current albums, if one can wait just a little, you can save a lot more money when they do it.

Mar 25, 2013 19:40:06 GMT -5 KeepDeanWeird said:

I'm glad you pointed out the $1.29. I noticed that the other day. I doubt the .50 deals are gone. They usually do a "10-pack" of .50 songs every few weeks. The $1.99 and $2.99 CD will still be around - it's a great way for them to build up the cloud since all Amazon Mp3 purchases do NOT count against cloud capacity.

There are probably some $0.50 ones there still.

[velaxti]

Mar 25, 2013 19:40:06 GMT -5 KeepDeanWeird said:

I'm glad you pointed out the $1.29. I noticed that the other day. I doubt the .50 deals are gone. They usually do a "10-pack" of .50 songs every few weeks. The $1.99 and $2.99 CD will still be around - it's a great way for them to build up the cloud since all Amazon Mp3 purchases do NOT count against cloud capacity.

iTunes in the UK and Ireland do something similar to this. Every week a large number of songs get discounted to 59p (the usual price is 99p). I don't know the exact number, but it's a lot more than 10.

A couple of songs such as Titanium by David Guetta and Paradise by Coldplay were lucky to get #1 here, as they happened to be discounted the week they got it.