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Originally Posted by Billyspunk
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?
Even if you do get answers here, I dont think you would get the actual answer of that man whom you saw and trigger your curiosity on why he bought 20 copies of transporter2 |
I bought one copy of Transporter 2 yesterday. I sure wish there was a poll or something.
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Originally Posted by JCWBobC
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. |
Psst, psssst, Yeah you, over here. I have this great action flick, want to buy it? Only 22.95 just for you.
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Yea , we got a local renter that comes into our store... but he only gets 3 of the big titles... since that is the max he can get.
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It was probably a blockbuster employee. It's the only way they can get new releases these days.
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Cause 1 Transporter 2 dvd is just not enough. :D
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Best Buy usually mentions in a weekly ad's fine print that you're allowed 3 copies of a CD/DVD
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Originally Posted by Damed
It was probably a blockbuster employee. It's the only way they can get new releases these days.
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20 copies and 20 generic cases? It's about as obvious as you can get that they are buying them for their rental business. I also had a friend who owned a mom and pop store who said they can buy them cheaper from Walmart than they can from a rental business vendor. Why pay $20 when you can go to the store and get them for $16??
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Originally Posted by Sweet Baby James
"Get the chalk, get the chalk, put me on the fucking Transporter 2 DVD board!":lol:
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I'd make a very large wager that he was buying them to rent. There's a little thing called "The First Sale Doctrine" that allows that. The local video shop gets his at Wal Mart and they even give him a discount and then allow him to use any coupons he might have on top of that.
cisman: Thank you for looking down your nose at those of us in rural areas. There are a lot of people who live places where you can't get a DVD for under $20 until a price reduction comes along. One Wal Mart a few towns over actually charges $20.88 for a new release |
Originally Posted by Damed
It was probably a blockbuster employee. It's the only way they can get new releases these days.
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Originally Posted by cultshock
Yep, my parents owned a video store back in the VHS days, and this is accurate. There is no law, in US or Canada at least, that says a video store owner can't buy his product anywhere he wishes to. In some countries it's different though. In Japan for example, some DVD releases clearly say on the back of the box either "Not for rent" or "Rental version" (and the latter are more expensive for video stores to buy). I think the UK is the same way (it used to be at least, I'm not sure if it still is or not)
<b>JCWBobC</b> basically gave a good explanation of how "rental pricing" with the VHS market used to work. Fortunately, rental pricing never caught on with DVD, and it was always priced for sell-through (though there were a few experiments with DVD rental pricing overseas). The only thing I have to add, is that someone asked about stores having to share rental revenue with the studios. That was a very special case back in the VHS days where some large chains (like Blockbuster and Hollywood Video) had special arrangements with the studios. The studios would still release the video first at rental prices ($100-125 a pop), but places like Blockbuster would get special cheap prices in return for revenue sharing of the rental profits. That's how Blockbuster could afford to have so many copies of new releases (Always In-Stock Guarantee), while mom & pop rental stores who couldn't get these agreements, couldn't afford to have so many copies of new releases. There's no law that says rental places have to share rental revenue with the studios. That's just the agreement they made in order to get large quantities of new releases at discounted prices. Since there's no longer any rental pricing, these agreements don't happen anymore. |
Originally Posted by Rockmjd23
:lol: :thumbsup: No shit. I'm tempted to use petty cash to buy some Land of the Dead for our store...
LB... |
Maybe he was confused, and thought he was buying 20 copies of Serenity.
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Originally Posted by xage
Dude, you are mature and manly enough to ask that guy? why bother asking in a DVDTALK forum?
Even if you do get answers here, I dont think you would get the actual answer of that man whom you saw and trigger your curiosity on why he bought 20 copies of transporter2 |
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