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Re: Fright Night 30th Anniversary Edition (01/20/15)- Yep, Twilight Time

Originally Posted by Mike86
If they don't actually know the demand prior to release why not do a bit of market research prior to deciding to put out a title? I wouldn't think it would be too hard to put a poll up or something gauging interest in titles. They could then negotiate the number of discs they can print for potentially interested customers (possibly slightly above depending on the number) with the license holder afterwards. Seems like it would make a bit more sense. The only issue I could see is people who don't follow through with a purchase but at least they'd have somewhat of an idea on how much stock to have and wouldn't end up with a bunch of leftovers or people being out of luck that actually want one. They should also really limit the orders to one per person.
I think the post by bruceames with the German distributor quote, helps illustrate how difficult it is to know the exact number of people who will make a purchase and having the limited "timer", helps people make the purchase now instead of waiting later. There's too many other releases and people will just wait until it gets cheaper. The North American consumer is used to that now specially with Blu-ray and DVD releases. The limited copies help eliminate this factor. Also, I'm sure that TT counts on people buying more than one copy in order to help them recoup their costs for licensing and manufacturing of the discs as quickly as possible.
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Re: Fright Night 30th Anniversary Edition (01/20/15)- Yep, Twilight Time

Whew...glad this thread became active again, almost missed out on the opportunity to pick up Fright Night. This is perfect timing, the Predator 2 2 disc cd OST is also a pre-order with a mid January planned release, and I have a few other titles in my cart (some have been in my cart for several weeks). The Fright Night pre-order is the excuse I needed to pull the trigger.

This is one of those films I would have picked up the first time it went up for sale, so hooray for second chances. I also saw this years ago on TV, and even cut...it struck me as more of an atmospheric horror film, not a gore heavy film, which makes it a rare horror film I am interested in picking up and viewing again.

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Re: Fright Night 30th Anniversary Edition (01/20/15)- Yep, Twilight Time

The Twilight Time model may be the way future catalogue Blu-ray releases will be handled. Low volume = high price with a collectable factor.

I'm sure it is difficult to navigate how well certain titles will sell. If you look back at, let's say, the Manhunter Limited Edition from Anchor Bay back in 2001.
They pressed 100,000 copies of that title, according to the cover. Whether they actually pressed or sold that many remains to be known. As far as I know this title isn't worth much on the current market.

It's a great sales ploy. Who knows how many is enough to satisfy the market.

If they just released Fright Night without mentioning a limit maybe they would only sell 4,000 of them?

By advertising a limit of 5,000 they fabricate a greater demand and will easily sell all 5,000. This helps create a heated aftermarket which lends itself well to the sale of future limited edition titles.
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Re: Fright Night 30th Anniversary Edition (01/20/15)- Yep, Twilight Time

I'll bet that it won't even sell a 1000 copies without the limited label or being discounted heavily. So yeah, the TT model will be the norm and not the exception. I'm resigned to that fact.
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Re: Fright Night 30th Anniversary Edition (01/20/15)- Yep, Twilight Time

Originally Posted by Mike86
If they don't actually know the demand prior to release why not do a bit of market research prior to deciding to put out a title? I wouldn't think it would be too hard to put a poll up or something gauging interest in titles. They could then negotiate the number of discs they can print for potentially interested customers (possibly slightly above depending on the number) with the license holder afterwards. Seems like it would make a bit more sense. The only issue I could see is people who don't follow through with a purchase but at least they'd have somewhat of an idea on how much stock to have and wouldn't end up with a bunch of leftovers or people being out of luck that actually want one. They should also really limit the orders to one per person.
They're not just pulling the number out of thin air though. Their usual blu-ray run is 3000, so the very fact that they are doing 5000 shows that they estimate the demand to be higher than usual. In fact, as recently as a couple of months ago they insisted that they were only doing 3000. So at some point they made the decision to do more. I have to believe that decision was based on something.

Also, you need to stop getting hung up up on the 3 per person limit. Everyone who is prepared to buy one of these in the next day or two will get one. It's not going to be a problem.
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Re: Fright Night 30th Anniversary Edition (01/20/15)- Yep, Twilight Time

almost 4 EST. who's ready?
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Re: Fright Night 30th Anniversary Edition (01/20/15)- Yep, Twilight Time

and the site is down...
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Re: Fright Night 30th Anniversary Edition (01/20/15)- Yep, Twilight Time

And it's choking.
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Re: Fright Night 30th Anniversary Edition (01/20/15)- Yep, Twilight Time

What the. . .
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Re: Fright Night 30th Anniversary Edition (01/20/15)- Yep, Twilight Time



Of course...
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Re: Fright Night 30th Anniversary Edition (01/20/15)- Yep, Twilight Time

looks like I might not get one
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Re: Fright Night 30th Anniversary Edition (01/20/15)- Yep, Twilight Time

The site is dead Jim. Jeebus, will keep trying.
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Re: Fright Night 30th Anniversary Edition (01/20/15)- Yep, Twilight Time

and it crashes yet again. why on earth they don't get better servers is beyond me.
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Re: Fright Night 30th Anniversary Edition (01/20/15)- Yep, Twilight Time

almost had it...
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Re: Fright Night 30th Anniversary Edition (01/20/15)- Yep, Twilight Time

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and it crashes yet again. why on earth they don't get better servers is beyond me.
Why would you invest in better servers to account for a couple hours of poor performance on the rare event that they sell a genre title? Their servers handle the overwhelming majority of their release dates just fine.

And if you wanna put your tin foil hat on you can also make the case that the server problems probably make people more anxious to spend money.
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Re: Fright Night 30th Anniversary Edition (01/20/15)- Yep, Twilight Time

worse than a Mondo drop
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Re: Fright Night 30th Anniversary Edition (01/20/15)- Yep, Twilight Time

at least it's in my cart
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Re: Fright Night 30th Anniversary Edition (01/20/15)- Yep, Twilight Time

Originally Posted by Pizza
at least it's in my cart
same here ... do they have any kind of time limit on cart contents?
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Re: Fright Night 30th Anniversary Edition (01/20/15)- Yep, Twilight Time

I've never wanted something so bad in my life, and I don't even remember if I liked the movie!
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Re: Fright Night 30th Anniversary Edition (01/20/15)- Yep, Twilight Time

Originally Posted by Guru Askew
Why would you invest in better servers to account for a couple hours of poor performance on the rare event that they sell a genre title? Their servers handle the overwhelming majority of their release dates just fine.

And if you wanna put your tin foil hat on you can also make the case that the server problems probably make people more anxious to spend money.
By all means, focus on my comment rather than the actual problem.

gah, people.....
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Re: Fright Night 30th Anniversary Edition (01/20/15)- Yep, Twilight Time

Originally Posted by DaveyJoe
I've never wanted something so bad in my life, and I don't even remember if I liked the movie!
i'm meh. if i get it i get it, if i don't i will still sleep fine tonight (of course the pills help )
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Re: Fright Night 30th Anniversary Edition (01/20/15)- Yep, Twilight Time

Originally Posted by DaveyJoe
I've never wanted something so bad in my life, and I don't even remember if I liked the movie!
lmao!
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Re: Fright Night 30th Anniversary Edition (01/20/15)- Yep, Twilight Time

Originally Posted by rocket1312
Also, you need to stop getting hung up up on the 3 per person limit. Everyone who is prepared to buy one of these in the next day or two will get one. It's not going to be a problem.
Regardless, by putting a limit of three per customer that's just setting up the market for scalpers. I'm not worried about not getting one but it is sort of unfair to people who don't necessarily know about a release right away or aren't able to make the purchase at the time of release.

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