I've read that some people are getting the original 5000 numbering instead of the revised 10,000. I would have rather recieved one of those. Oh, well.

Yeah... false advertising, anyone?


Personally, I think the whole artificial-scarcity bullet-point thing is a terrible joke, but if they're gonna do it, they should at least give us what we're paying for, right?

I find it rather odd, that out of two releases sent out the same day December 11th to me ('Bay of Blood' and 'Battle Royale') only one of them arrived today in the mail - and it wasn't 'Battle Royale'

You must have missed this post.

I'm not expecting mine until next week. I just received my Inception set on Monday and that shipped out a week earlier.

I sure did. However, I'm really not sure how it matters if and when they effectively said 'We're not giving you what you've already paid us for'; they're not giving it to us, either way.

What a strange thing to complain about.

Still waiting for my Dec 11 package as well

Would you have canceled your order if you knew earlier about the pressing increase?

Personally speaking, I didn't pay for it because it was a limited edition (I think Amazon.co.uk said it was a special edition, and didn't mention the run amount). I paid for it because of the content, and the content is what I'll still be getting.

For example, I paid for the original 2-DVD Limited Edition of Army of Darkness that Anchor Bay released in the US. However, I wasn't too upset when Anchor Bay released the 2nd DVD on its own as a 2nd Limited Edition, then a non-limited edition, then repackaged with the first disc as a 2-DVD set again. I bought the LE because it was the best edition at the time, and I love the movie, not because it was a collectible.

If you're buying Blu-ray or DVD sets just because they're limited runs, you're buying them for the wrong reasons.

This may have something to do with the stall in order delivery:

^It's still kind of odd that those on the East Coast haven't recieved their orders yet. Mine went out on Mon. the 13th and arrived yesterday. I'm in California.

I am hoping mine makes it here today or tomorrow otherwise with the holiday I will have to wait until next week to check it out. I live in the Midwest and it shipped on the 11th as well.

If they're going to build their promotion around blowing smoke up our butts (the whole 'limited edition' fallacy- as if any edition weren't limited), I'm going to hold them to their claims. We're picking up the tab on the allegedly valuable "exclusivity" of this release, so we deserve to actually receive what we're paying for, right?

Basically, it irks me that they lie to us about the 'limited edition' thing, in the first place, and then they don't even live up to their own lie. It's BS and they should be called on it.

It might have something with Amazon and other retailers jumping the gun and putting the limited edition for sale without consulting Arrow about the pressing quantity, so there's the possibility that it might have been a bit of pressure from overloaded online retailers that caused them to up the run. One in 10,000 is still a sexy number, and they did make that amended announcement shortly after the set became available for pre-order.

http://www.cult-labs.com/forums/109372-post54.html

Do you think that if the set wasn't numbered that it'd be cheaper?

Looking it up, it looks like only 6 days passed between Arrow announcing the initial number of 5,000 and their announcement of the revision to 10,000 copies.

http://twitchfilm.com/news/2010/10/v...tle-royale.php

..................what a strange thing to complain about.

That's what I think is strange. Mine shipped on the 11th and mine hasn't arrived yet and I live in Georgia.

What if your choice was between a 10K print-run and getting one VS. a 5K print-run and not getting one? Which very well may have been the case.

Doctorossi is going to end up with #10,001.

Since the announcement came from Arrow only days after the set was officially detailed, I'm surprised you didn't hear they were upping from 5k to 10k. My guess, honestly, is that they discovered too late that they had already "sold" more than 5k thanks to Amazon and other retailers, so they were forced to up the number to 10k.

Honestly, I don't care about the number. I care about the discs and all the stuff that's packed in with it.

I just ordered one!

Big deal? No.

Something that would ever make me cancel my order? No.

However, Arrow made two mistakes here:

1) They should've kept some control over the pre-order process, so that they could actually honor their exclusivity promise (the original number).

2) They should have come up with a better solution to their failure to do that than "Oh, well, we'll just give our customers half of the exclusivity we promised them."

This is in support of a tired marketing gimmick which is insulting to their customers, in the first place.

I just think it's lame. Not the end of the world, but lame.

If you get a lower number than me I'm going to flip my lid.

I'm in WI with a ship date of the 11th and still have not received mine either. Greatly looking forward to it...I could care less if there were no numbers at all.

It's a business. They probably got caught off guard by the demand for the item. I understand how you may feel but it's not like they're charging a premium for this and who would say no to doubling their profits? I kind of felt the same way as you with the Beatles Mono Box since that was a lot more expensive and I busted my butt to get an early order in due to the fear of it selling out, but I'm happy to just have it.