"Warped" record pricing

[Zed Simon]

There a couple of thrifts near me whose concept of record pricing absolutely confounds me. Some records are 99 cents, others $1.99, and a few as high as $4.99. I picked up a 99-cent record and one whose tag was apparently removed. I took it back to the back room to be repriced and it came back $3.99. How in the name of love did that happen? The lady I asked said something about how hard to find it was ("antique", she told me). I'd say both records are equally hard to find, and other so-called antiques records were 99 cents, so I stand by my reasoning that their ideas on record pricing are kinda, uh, warped.

This is the only thrift I've ever seen that does this. Why not just make all the records one price?

And while we're at it, what would your one price be? Another thrift charges a consistent $1.99, which is double what I'm used to paying.

[Good Buddy]

Zed,

Agreed, I can't even believe that some thrift stores think they can get away with selling a used record for $4.99 and up. There's a thrift store near us that has records priced that high. Actually most of thier pricing is really bad. (I bet they go under within 6 months of this post)
Some thrift stores have this big idea that anything can be priced at a what I can possibly get for it price, rather than a what it would sell quickly for price.
There's an insane thrift store manager here who prices items at 5-10 times what they should cost at a thrift. She then puts what the item will cost after being there for 6 months! That's NUTS! She's renting a huge building for storage basically. If she priced things way more reasonably she'd have a much faster turn around and need less space to store all the not selling merchandise. Needing less space which means less rent she'd have to pay and obviously which in turn leads to more money that she's able to give to her very worthy charity. (She actually had the store moved to a bigger location because they had so much good merchandise that just wasn't selling.)
I'm having a guy add some programming that'll let everyone review thrift stores on 4 or 5 different criteria within the directory, including pricing.

GB

[wabi-sabi]

I always consider the possibility that the LPs I pick out will be
partially scratched or warped - what would I pay for one or two
playable songs? traditionally no more than a dollar, maybe in rare
cases two bucks - IF  it has a groovy cover design.  But thrifts should consider the dwindling stock of truly collectible "antique" LPs and
face the fact that most of the LPs that clutter up their stores are
more or less dregs and only have novelty value.  In my experience
there's a distressing repetitiveness in seeing the same exact titles
in every thriftstore I sampled during a roadtrip from San Francisco
to Washington DC.  Customers who have the imagination and the curiosity  AND the patience to pick through "Dan Fogelberg" and his ilk and get past the millionth copy of "The Sound Of Music" to find something
odd enough to wanna bring home deserve a price break !
 Recently, an  area Goodwill had a sale on LPs, 10 cents each my sister
and I bought  35 records ! Records we wouldn't have even considered at a dollar each suddenly became attractive enough to clutter OUR space
 instead of their shelves.  More room for them, everyone's happy.