Why buy 20 copies of Transporter 2 DVD?
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Why buy 20 copies of Transporter 2 DVD?
Hello, I was at my local Walmart yesterday looking at the new releases and I noticed something strange. There was a guy buying 20 copies of Transporter 2 DVD plus generic cases for them. Why would someone buy 20 copies? The first thing I thought was he was copying them and reselling, but if that was so why buy 20, just buy 1 and burn all you want? For the life of me I can't figure this one out. He paid over $380 cash for his purchase, this person obviously has money..What is going on?
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He probably owns a small mom&pop rental store. A lot of times, B&M stores like Wal-Mart and Best Buy will sell a title the first week on sale for less than this person could get it from a wholesaler. It's cheaper for them to just go to a store and buy a bunch of copies to rent out that way.
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Originally Posted by Shagrath
He probably owns a small mom&pop rental store. A lot of times, B&M stores like Wal-Mart and Best Buy will sell a title the first week on sale for less than this person could get it from a wholesaler. It's cheaper for them to just go to a store and buy a bunch of copies to rent out that way.
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Originally Posted by Shagrath
He probably owns a small mom&pop rental store. A lot of times, B&M stores like Wal-Mart and Best Buy will sell a title the first week on sale for less than this person could get it from a wholesaler. It's cheaper for them to just go to a store and buy a bunch of copies to rent out that way.
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Wally World often sells dvds the first few days at their Tier 1 stores for below cost. Your math comes out to $19 per dvd, but the cost on Transporter 2 is probably $15-$16. My Walmart was selling it for $15.96 I believe.
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Is it legal for a mom&pop store to buy a DVD from Bestbuy and use it for rent? I thought they had to buy through different channels at higher prices because they are making profit from the film
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Originally Posted by Damed
Is it legal for a mom&pop store to buy a DVD from Bestbuy and use it for rent? I thought they had to buy through different channels at higher prices because they are making profit from the film
I think the reason it was so high back then is because VHS movies came out for rental 6 months to a year before you could pick it up in the store, and therefore rental stores had to pay a "premium" to get them early in order to get that sweet rental time before anybody could go pick it up at a store.
Since dvds are released for rental at the same time as they are for retail purchase, this plan kind of went out the window. Of course, this is all purely speculation on my part, and someone who is/was in the rental business might better answer this question.
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I know someone who owns a small store and he does this as well. He says it's much cheaper to do than getting from the wholesaler.
The problem comes from finding stores that will let you buy that many.
At one point I was accepting preorders on ebay for dvd's and when it came out the TUE i would buy how many I need and ship them out.
It's nuts people would pay $20.00 for a dvd when I could get it for $15.00 at the store...so bascially they were paying $5.00 for me to go pick it up for them.
I stopped because it was way too much hassle trying to find stores that would go for it. I remember when LOTR: The Two Towers came out I had like 30 orders and that was murder trying to buy all those. Managers would come out asking all kinds of questions and some would not let me do it. It was walmart that gave the most out and that was only because I would go to the front display and load up and hit the cash register.
Hope that helps explains some
The problem comes from finding stores that will let you buy that many.
At one point I was accepting preorders on ebay for dvd's and when it came out the TUE i would buy how many I need and ship them out.
It's nuts people would pay $20.00 for a dvd when I could get it for $15.00 at the store...so bascially they were paying $5.00 for me to go pick it up for them.
I stopped because it was way too much hassle trying to find stores that would go for it. I remember when LOTR: The Two Towers came out I had like 30 orders and that was murder trying to buy all those. Managers would come out asking all kinds of questions and some would not let me do it. It was walmart that gave the most out and that was only because I would go to the front display and load up and hit the cash register.
Hope that helps explains some
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Originally Posted by cisman
It's nuts people would pay $20.00 for a dvd when I could get it for $15.00 at the store...so bascially they were paying $5.00 for me to go pick it up for them.
Hope that helps explains some
Hope that helps explains some
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It's funny you started this, because I saw a man doing this yesterday at Fred Meyer, where there was no great sale on the DVD. He walked out with every Transporter 2 on the shelves. I was perplexed.
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Originally Posted by onebyone
It's funny you started this, because I saw a man doing this yesterday at Fred Meyer, where there was no great sale on the DVD. He walked out with every Transporter 2 on the shelves. I was perplexed.
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I once bought 25 copies of Speed to hand out as rewards at a meeting (had to go to several stores). It was for a restaurant company and the theme of the meeting was faster service. The top store received a DVD for each member of the crew (as well as other stuff).
Maybe this guy's using them as prizes or giveaways at his company.
Maybe this guy's using them as prizes or giveaways at his company.
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Originally Posted by mrcoaster
Is there really such a demand for Transporter 2 that a mom & pop shop would want to have 20 copies of it on hand?
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I once bought 25 copies of Speed to hand out as rewards at a meeting (had to go to several stores). It was for a restaurant company and the theme of the meeting was faster service. The top store received a DVD for each member of the crew (as well as other stuff).
Maybe this guy's using them as prizes or giveaways at his company.
Maybe this guy's using them as prizes or giveaways at his company.
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I just wanted to comment on what shagrath posted.
It wasn't that tapes were released for rental 6 months before they were released for sale. Most tapes were released at a retail price of between $95-$105.
(If I remember correctly Platoon was the first title to go above $100.)
Stores bought them to rent but anyone could have bought the tape if they want to pay that price. After about 6-8 months the studios would release the same movie at a sell-through price, which was between $19.95-$29.95.
Sometime the studios would release a title at the sell-through price initially because they knew it was a movie people would want to own, rather than just watch once. Batman was such a big sell-through movie I remember it being on the news that people were waiting in line for it because stores couldn't sell it before 12AM on the release date. Of course once video got really big stores would break the street date all the time.
Their is no law that says where a video store has to buy their product so if they can get it cheaper by purchasing it from a Best Buy, BJs, or some other store they can.
It wasn't that tapes were released for rental 6 months before they were released for sale. Most tapes were released at a retail price of between $95-$105.
(If I remember correctly Platoon was the first title to go above $100.)
Stores bought them to rent but anyone could have bought the tape if they want to pay that price. After about 6-8 months the studios would release the same movie at a sell-through price, which was between $19.95-$29.95.
Sometime the studios would release a title at the sell-through price initially because they knew it was a movie people would want to own, rather than just watch once. Batman was such a big sell-through movie I remember it being on the news that people were waiting in line for it because stores couldn't sell it before 12AM on the release date. Of course once video got really big stores would break the street date all the time.
Their is no law that says where a video store has to buy their product so if they can get it cheaper by purchasing it from a Best Buy, BJs, or some other store they can.
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Originally Posted by Peep
1st place: 20 copies of "Transporter 2"
2nd place: 20 generic DVD cases
3rd place: YOU'RE FIRED!!
2nd place: 20 generic DVD cases
3rd place: YOU'RE FIRED!!