>>51103691That's you.
I don't know if you're the above or not, but if someone is "not into vinyl" then buying a phonograph record is the same as buying an acrylic stand. That person would not use the record for anything besides looking at it, so having a record player for 40 dollars or 4,000 dollars makes no difference.
Putting the minuscule amount of wear one play will have on your typical mass produced record aside, someone buying a record might want to play it exactly once, for the novelty, and then leave it in its sleeve. In that case, the cheap big box store phonographs are perfectly serviceable.
