Members uz3r Posted December 29, 2008 Members Posted December 29, 2008 Im in a little Australian independant band, we have our CD for sale through CD Baby. Over the last couple of months we have sold nearly a dozen physical CD's to one location in Japan. Whilst this is really cool, I cant help but think this is weird and some potentially some dodgy scam. Has anyone else has this sort of pattern happen from buyers in Asia?
Members Gibson155 Posted December 29, 2008 Members Posted December 29, 2008 Have you gotten your money?
Members uz3r Posted December 29, 2008 Author Members Posted December 29, 2008 not yet, but CD Baby is showing it as owning us money. we only get it paid to us once the oustanding amount reaches a certain amount and it hasnt reached there just yet. i guess we will wait and see
Members Poker99 Posted December 29, 2008 Members Posted December 29, 2008 Maybe they don't know about illegal free downloads in that town?
Members stopthebus Posted January 4, 2009 Members Posted January 4, 2009 That happened to a guy I know from Milwaukee, he sold basically no CDs in the U.S., and sold about 400 in Japan, it was all legit. No idea why it happens though. That was also through CD Baby.
Members jtsterling Posted January 6, 2009 Members Posted January 6, 2009 Have you gotten your money? CD Baby pays up. No worries there.
Members samich1262 Posted January 7, 2009 Members Posted January 7, 2009 It's normal, I have some Japanese friends and they say they're crazy about American music. I don't think it was a scam.
Members scaryfried Posted January 8, 2009 Members Posted January 8, 2009 Are you by any chance in a hardcore band? I know a band that sold some CD's to Japan, maybe they have a fascination of hardcore!
Members BlueStrat Posted January 8, 2009 Members Posted January 8, 2009 It's normal. I sell CDs in Italy, Norway (I even got a couple of royalty checks for radio airplay there), the Ukraine, Hungary, France, Spain, Greece, Japan, the UK...all through CD Baby.
Members backtoblue Posted January 11, 2009 Members Posted January 11, 2009 Im in a little Australian independant band, we have our CD for sale through CD Baby. Over the last couple of months we have sold nearly a dozen physical CD's to one location in Japan. Whilst this is really cool, I cant help but think this is weird and some potentially some dodgy scam.Has anyone else has this sort of pattern happen from buyers in Asia? Is your CD really cheap on cdbaby and do you have the % discount added for orders of multiples? Our CD is $9.99 and we have the 20% discount set up. We've had a few CDs sold to the same guy in Russia...I'm wondering if he's an ebayer or retailer of some sort and he trying to resell them. I wouldn't have ever imagined someone actually doing that with a virtual unknown like us, but for grins I did a search for our CD on Ebay one day and there was a music retailer listing it for like $16. This guy was based in FL though, so I'm sure it's unrelated. Interesting nonetheless...
Members primeelite Posted January 11, 2009 Members Posted January 11, 2009 Have actually marketed a few bands in the US to just international markets solely. You can market it to japan where they have stricter downloading rules and get a lot more downloads and sales then you can trying to market it to the US. Even some of the bands top fans here in the US will download your stuff and just buy the singles off Itunes. This whole thing could be easily corrected if the US government would place regulations on this with stiffer penalties for those networks providing paths to steal music.
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