Gobear

Last night, I finished James Garner's autobiography and was curious about prices for his movies, so I went to Amazon and found a 3rd-party seller offering new sets of The Rockford Files Season 5 for this absurdly low price. The other seasons are around $30. I ordered it with Prime, so it should be here tomorrow. I've bought other DVDs from this seller and so far no problems, so this should be legit.

Here's the link

SkipKassidy

Thanks, Gobear.

standbyme

Thanks for the heads-up...I ordered one!

Drake

Thanks, For $4 it's a no brainer!

Sweet Baby James

Already own it, it's a great season with the introduction of Lance White.

Double_Oh_7

Season 5 is always so much cheaper than other Rockford seasons. Anyone know why?

FSA

Thanks a lot.

stingermck

Thanks OP! $3.84 since I had 25 cents credit Cheaper than lunch today

GoldenWheels

Season 5 has been on multiple overstock lists several times. I have never seen any of the others more than once, and never at as low a price as S5 (though this is an especially great price no matter how you slice it!).

I imagine there is a mountain of it in a warehouse somewhere.

Shawerma

i would have bought it if it was not on netflix. This is like the Alfred hitchcock presents dvd sets season 2 is always cheaper than the rest.

mclori

Thanks for the heads up on this! I used to watch it every week.

berigan

It appears to be out of print right now(I came across this a few months back when it was a bit more expensive) so unless someone like Shout! puts it out down the road, this would be the time to grab a copy before they eventually go up in price, and get hard to find.
Are you listening(reading) what you are typing berigan? grab a copy! Well, I usually like to start series from the very beginning, and I...SHUT UP AND ORDER IT! Ok, ok, man, what a grouch I am!

g

How do you see it being out of print? Michael's movie mayhem doesn't indicate this and its usually reliable.

berigan

well, IIRC, it's been fullfilled by someone besides Amazon for a few months now....and dirt cheap all along. Why ask nothing for season 5, & $30 for season 1?

Gobear

If a box set is OOP, wouldn't it cost more than other sets, due to scarcity?

docdoowop

Thanks for the tip, Gobear. Next-cheapest online source apparently is Walmart, with dvdpricesearch showing $10 for the season.

BTW, howz the Garner book? I bought the new Myrna Loy (which is great) instead.

Gobear

Garner must be a laconic interview, because the book is not very long. It's told in Garner's first-person voice, even though it's an "as told to" bio. No major revelations, although he trashes the director of My Fellow Americans, and Garner talks about punching Glen Larson (produced a lot of 70s TV shows) into a trailer. There are separate chapters dedicated to Garner's passions for golf and Formula One racing, even though his health and age no longer allow him to pursue either activity. Garner's a lifelong Democrat, and he's snarky about Charlton Heston being a hypocrite about civil rights in the 60s, participating in marches to look good even though Heston didn't really believe in it, and then turning openly right in the 1964 election.

rw2516

Amazon doesn't carry all kinds of stuff that is in print. Especially cds. As already mentioned there is probably a ton of season 5 sitting around compared to the other seasons.

GoldenWheels

OOP and scarce don't always have much to do with one another. Not right away anyway.

If something is OOP or going OOP you should probably still grab it if you really want it (Disney and Criterion especially) BUT literally...there can be pallets of the OOP title sitting in a warehouse somewhere as OS. And sometimes they don't get wholesaled until years after the title went OOP.

marald

That's because Amazon's price is $21.99 and their seller's are offering it for less.

BKenn01

Ordered now I hope its not a bootleg.....

docdoowop

Now $8.79.

Gobear

Mine arrived today.

marald

Mine too! Thanks OP!

berigan

But I don't think amazon has sold it themselves for months...camel,camel,camel shows it's lowest price from amazon as $8.99 Oct 30th, and around $20 now, but that's moot since they don't actually have it in stock...3rd party prices have been $10 or under since early sept.

http://camelcamelcamel.com/Rockford-...ve=summary&cpf[]=amazon&cpf[]=new (EDIT, won't let me post link including 3rd party, you will just have to turn that on yourself)

It's just weird all around. Universal almost never puts out a complete series of older shows. (Sold rights to Adam-12, Police Woman, McMillian and Wife, etc to Shout!) so for them to put all Rockford Files out, including the made for TV movies tells me they must have sold really well...so why did they have a ton of just season 5??