TDK announces price adjustment for CD-R/CD-RW products
Posted on 18/06/01 18:03 by Jan Willem                             
TDK announces price adjustment for CD-R/CD-RW products
And yet another company that announces higher prices for their CD-R/CD-RW media products. Also TDK has to 'correct' it prices. The low prices the last years are caused by CD-R dumps. You know how it goes, if supply is higher then demand, prices are low.


Jim Browning, TDK VP of Marketing, explains the need for a CD-R price increase as follows: ``The CD-R industry is undergoing a correction caused by the market dynamics of the past two years. Last year's over-supply of discs resulted in dramatic price decreases, which forced many small and medium sized manufacturers to exit the CD-R business. This development has caused a consolidation of the manufacturing base, which has led to a tightening of disc supply. In addition, increases in CD-R production costs have also contributed to the price hike.''

Adds Browning, ``Although wholesale price increases of approximately 30% are expected, CD-R is still positioned as the most cost-efficient, flexible data, music and multimedia storage option available today.''


Maybe we should all stop burning for a while so the demand will be lower

Source: Yahoo

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By Nila, Monday 18 June 2001 18:33
U can stop burning. I'm going to continue to buy my CD's for £25 for 100 80min CD's. I LOVE ENGLAND!!! CD Prices here aren't going anywhere but down continually Smilie
By Psychodweep, Monday 18 June 2001 20:16
damn, There will also be taxes on Cdr's (in belgium) plus de prices of cdr's will raise = panic !!!!
By Ian, Tuesday 19 June 2001 00:08
Why do you think you're protected in the UK? Oh wait.. you're already paying too much for blanks.. Smilie
By stvastva, Tuesday 19 June 2001 03:29
That's really lousy ....It's so odd to see 100 disks for $15 & then be told they are going up 30% - it just doesn't seem right for some reason - there is something they are not stating as a reason for the increase..
By InterCepTor, Tuesday 19 June 2001 06:05
It's all bull :4 its probably to try and stop the casual pirates from buying the blanks by putting the prices up, I could be wrong, its only a guess :7 Greetz from the UK
By Guest, Tuesday 19 June 2001 09:19
I got a stock, you never can be prepared enough. But a month ago they said the same, but there were no raises.
By chinster, Tuesday 19 June 2001 10:17
Could anything get more expensive in th UK? cry
By Looser, Tuesday 19 June 2001 23:16
I live in san diego ca just bought some generics at FRY's for $7@50 700_80min. It was 1 per customer but all I did was go in and out of the store 4 times and bought 1 at a time.
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