Saturday, December 16, 2006

KORVETTES price sticker circa 1972 !


Vintage price sticker is from my price sticker collection. This an extremely rare torn off price sticker from the Korvettes Record Department. Korvettes had a FRUSTRATING system of pricing their albums (just like Sam Goody did). A price chart was posted on the wall(s) of the department. A color/letter coded sticker sans an actual price number was adhered to each LP. You had to look at the sticker--then up at the chart on the wall. WHAT WAS THE PURPOSE OF THIS? We shall never know. To add to the frustration--no matter what album I had in my hand--the sticker would always correspond to a higher price than I would have imagined! (I guess I have good taste). Remember, $7.99 for an album was a lot of money in 1977. This sticker is for a sale LP, hence the blatant price ...right on the sticker! Imagine that! Later on, Korvettes reverted back to the regular pricing system and went out of business in 1980. 1.2 x 2.2" with light abbrasion on the lower corner and one upper corner ding . Overall VG/EX. Condition and VERY VERY RARE.

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  1. I remember Sam Goody doing this! The reason it was done this way was so that the store manager(s) could change the prices on all items with the same color sticker without having to go to all the trouble of putting new price stickers on every item.

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  2. I remember Sam Goody doing this! The reason it was done this way was so that the store manager(s) could change the prices on all items with the same color sticker without having to go to all the trouble of putting new price stickers on every item.

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