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Post by HMV Lee on Jun 7, 2006 7:07:55 GMT
Im not trying to advertise(honestly Dave) but HMVs summer sale starts in approx 2 weeks so i thought id give you a heads up on some of the real bargains available.
DMS £4.99 TwentyFourSeven £5.99
Im sure most people have these but at that price i think everyone can buy someone else a copy of DMS
Barton Fink £1.99 Sideways £3.99 Citizen Kane £2.99 Tarnation £2.99 Battlefield Earth £1.99 Maybe not!
There will be more but i cant remember any other titles at moment ill add them as i find out. Sale is supposed to start Thurs 22 June.
Lee
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Post by Hyde on Jun 7, 2006 7:27:57 GMT
I'm going there today actually, I know prices change with each store but do you happen to know what La Haine would cost roughly around this time? Cheers and oh! tell me about it, I'm on my third copy of DMS!
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Post by HMV Lee on Jun 7, 2006 8:09:08 GMT
La Haine is £19.99 for old 2 disc SE but id go for the new 3 disc SE Tin its got the soundtrack with it not sure on price maybe 24.99, to be honest id buy from amazon £16.99 tin edition or CDWOW £7.99 2 disc. Im first to admit HMV are not the cheapest for non sale items but we do have the best staff
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Post by marksherbert on Jun 7, 2006 12:44:38 GMT
I didn't think Barton Fink was out on DVD beside the box-set?
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Post by Hyde on Jun 7, 2006 13:46:14 GMT
La Haine is £19.99 for old 2 disc SE but id go for the new 3 disc SE Tin its got the soundtrack with it not sure on price maybe 24.99, to be honest id buy from amazon £16.99 tin edition or CDWOW £7.99 2 disc. Im first to admit HMV are not the cheapest for non sale items but we do have the best staff Picked it up for 9.99 but its not the new tin edition with the soundtrack, its not even 2 disk! ONLY ONE! but all I care for is the film really... and it was superb
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Post by HMV Lee on Jun 7, 2006 20:17:06 GMT
Barton Fink came out last November its only a vanilla disk but at £1.99 an absolute bargain.
also coming are
Naked Lunch £5.99 American Splendor £2.99 Rules of Attraction £2.99 Lost in La Mancha £2.99 Brazil £3.99
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Post by marksherbert on Jun 8, 2006 12:44:53 GMT
Fuck me thats amazing. Start saving some pennies I think.
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Post by Al Fresco on Jun 10, 2006 16:31:47 GMT
Barton Fink £1.99 Sideways £3.99 Citizen Kane £2.99 Tarnation £2.99 Naked Lunch £5.99 American Splendor £2.99 Rules of Attraction £2.99 Lost in La Mancha £2.99 Brazil £3.99 I'm up for all of them!, this may be a shameless plugging topic but I wouldn't have known about these offers if you hadn't of posted. Cheers for the heads up!
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Post by HMV Lee on Jun 10, 2006 19:36:57 GMT
No problem. Im honestly not here not plug the company i work for just to help like minded film fans find a bargain.
If anyone else has a good or cheap source for quality or hard to find movies then let me know i currently use
CDWOW for criterion and R3 YesAsia for R3 and Korean special editions Ebay for random bargains
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Post by Companero on Jun 10, 2006 19:42:33 GMT
There's no denying it - there's some great pricing in there but speaking as someone that actually works as a buyer within the retail DVD industry, I will say that selling product like Barton Fink for as little as £1.99 is yet another blow to an already sinking ship!
I am torn because as a consumer I want a bargain just like everyone else but I have never seen an industry cannibalise itself as badly as that of DVD - price erosion didn't happen as quickly on VHS.
Having seen the likes of MVC and Silverscreen go out of business in the last 12 months, I'll say that they're just the tip of the iceberg - how much margin can be made when you're practically giving product away (and with the weekend newspapers, they actually do - yet another reason why perceived value has shoot through the floor) - there will be more casualties for sure and I reckon many of the smaller DVD labels will be forced to pack up, just like MIA (Missing In Action - who had been trading since 1995) - it's a very dangerous time, for sure...
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Post by Hyde on Jun 10, 2006 19:57:52 GMT
The thing with DVD's is there so easily damaged. Just this week Ichi the Killer arrived SEALED but it still cut out when I played it.
Do you agree with that? that there a bit... easily damaged.
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Post by HMV Lee on Jun 10, 2006 20:20:23 GMT
There's no denying it - there's some great pricing in there but speaking as someone that actually works as a buyer within the retail DVD industry, I will say that selling product like Barton Fink for as little as £1.99 is yet another blow to an already sinking ship! I am torn because as a consumer I want a bargain just like everyone else but I have never seen an industry cannibalise itself as badly as that of DVD - price erosion didn't happen as quickly on VHS. Having seen the likes of MVC and Silverscreen go out of business in the last 12 months, I'll say that they're just the tip of the iceberg - how much margin can be made when you're practically giving product away (and with the weekend newspapers, they actually do - yet another reason why perceived value has shoot through the floor) - there will be more casualties for sure and I reckon many of the smaller DVD labels will be forced to pack up, just like MIA (Missing In Action - who had been trading since 1995) - it's a very dangerous time, for sure... I totally agree while im happy to get a bargain im fully aware of the implications this kind of aggresive discounting has on retailers and labels. Having been at the front end of DVD sales for a couple of years watching the prices drop and the public becoming more clued up as to discounting of titles i dont know how the market is going to turnaround.
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Post by PatrickCoyle on Jun 10, 2006 20:36:13 GMT
The problem with Silver Screen is that it was vastly OVER-priced. The prices there were like HMV's on steroids. I don't think Silver Screen met an RRP it didn't like. Couple that with the fact that it was paying huge overheads to share space in city centre locations and malls, where customers could go to HMV or Music Zone within two minutes, and you can see how Silver Screen was a stupid idea in the first place.
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Post by fattaxi on Jun 10, 2006 22:40:43 GMT
Two years ago show me a dvd thats £7 and im snapping it up, now a days i'll consider it a bit pricey.
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Post by Companero on Jun 11, 2006 8:39:10 GMT
The problem with Silver Screen is that it was vastly OVER-priced. The prices there were like HMV's on steroids. I don't think Silver Screen met an RRP it didn't like. Couple that with the fact that it was paying huge overheads to share space in city centre locations and malls, where customers could go to HMV or Music Zone within two minutes, and you can see how Silver Screen was a stupid idea in the first place. It was stupid to start a company that sold nothing other than DVDs - Silverscreen put all their eggs in one basket and they were not diverse enough a retail to survive the continuing downfall in DVD sales. When Silverscreen first came on the scene, the only retailers that were heavily discounting chart product were the online businesses such as Play - as soon as the supermarkets started slashing the prices of day-one, new release product, many of the other retailers couldn't keep up. Supermarkets have great buying power and are able to get a beter unit price. They also sell DVDs and CDs as loss leaders to drive footfall in store - they'll make up the loss by adding a few pence here and there on groceries. The supermarkets know that if they get people in their stores to buy the latest DVD release, more often than not, the consumer will stay to do a bit of shopping... There's great confusion over the pricing of older films on DVD - people seem to have formed the opinion that they should be cheap and that if they are sold for more than £5 or £6, they are sensationally overpriced - the truth is that every disc has an RRP (Recommended Retail Price - usually around £17.99 or £19.99, though some titles are as little as £12.99 or £15.99) - this is usually their price for their entite life - unless they switch labels or are downgrade to a budget imprint. Where the confusion lies is that through out the year, the suppliers/studios sell films to retailers at campaign (READ: Sale) prices - these are usually set up for two or three month periods, before they're put back up to the original RRP and another set of campaign titles are introduced - some titles may even be campaigned all year around, but the prices do tend to flutuate between full RRP and sale, across the industry. So when you go into HMV or the like and see a film you've been after, priced at £19.99, this isn't the retailer taking the piss - the film has been marked at RRP. My advice is to buy online - most back catalogue tends to stay at campaign prices - why, I do not know, but it's rare to see a backa catalogue title on Play that's priced at over £9.99, unless it's a more specialist title (Limited edition, world cinema, etc).
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