Why Twice's albums are always out of stock??? #FuckJYPE

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This is an issue tho with a lot of fans. Printing is fine margins and printing is only typically a high profit venture when volumes are high. People often underestimate the cost of producing printed media, especially those with lots of unique elements like a Kpop album.

If it was 100k over 1 album that's different. This is printing say 100k copies of 10 albums with 2-4 versions each. The manufacturing cost are no longer homogenized and the profit margin is just not very high for a company that turns over tens of millions a year.

The margins are never super high in Kpop albums either, unless it's hundreds of thousands of sales and JYPE has chosen the route of lots of comebacks shipping new albums rather than tiding fans over with legacy printing.

Also some of that printing was done originally with different companies, like Lane 1 was printed under KT Music, iRiver and now Dreamus so it's more logistics and hassle.

JYPE don't print them because they care about milking profits from Twice, not reaching milestones or servicing buying fans

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They can print 100k of each as alex said and keep it in the building that Twice paid for. :)