How F*cked CD Baby has become: here's what came with my publisher payment

[egoldberg]

CD Baby has sadly become a case study of cluelessness after Derek Sivers dumped it on Discmakers to wreck

Comments

[hms42]

This is definitely useless. You have no idea what to put towards what funds. Nice that you did make sales, but not that they give you any info about what did ship.

[trektone]

This reminds me of a sample "customer-facing" report an acquaintance was doing for his e-commerce start-up ... in the mid-90's.

Sad.

[hitchhiker]

wow, i bet that's even worse than just grabbing some free package off the shelf and using it

[moshez]

Heh, I was thinking the same thing about CDBaby from the customer side.

I bought some CDs off of them a while ago, and it was easy and painless.

I wanted to buy Brooke Lunderville's new CD a couple of months ago, went to the site and after two minutes gave up in disgust and said "screw it, I'll buy it in Orycon".

Completely useless :((

[grahzny]

Whoa, yeah, that's not a very informative list. How did they used to do it?

Eli, I'm pretty sure I have an internet acquaintance in Discmakers engineering management. Want me to bug him for you?

[egoldberg]

It was never great before, but at least the information was concise and the website was minimalistic enough that you could find what you needed to piece it together.

Here's what it used to look like:

The direct ACH deposit was to pay you:
$45.35 for Julia Ecklar: Traveller
$29.81 for Bob Kanefsky: Roundworm
$36.28 for Kathy Mar: My Favorite Sings
$69.29 for Julia Ecklar: Divine Intervention
$45.35 for Various Artists: To Touch the Stars - A Musical
Celebration of Space Exploration
$72.57 for DIGITAL DISTRIBUTION SALES

Nah, no need to bug the discmakers guy. It's more disappointment to see CD Baby go from an inspiration to a turd. They've had this problem with their reports for months ever since they dumped the Linux-based system they were using.