Wal Mart Only Sold 30,000 HD DUD Players? - Blu-ray Forum

Living Near Shamu · 11-16-2007, 08:33 PM

According to Home Media Magazine, http://www.nxtbook.com/nxtbooks/ques...1807/index.php Page 28 - Cover3 (Panel: Format War Helps Online), Wal Mart only sold 30,000 HD DUD players on the firesale day, not the 90,000 that were announced earlier. Hm... I smell number fudging

Alan Gordon · 11-16-2007, 08:50 PM

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Originally Posted by Living Near Shamu

According to Home Media Magazine, http://www.nxtbook.com/nxtbooks/ques...1807/index.php Page 28 - Cover3 (Panel: Format War Helps Online), Wal Mart only sold 30,000 HD DUD players on the firesale day, not the 90,000 that were announced earlier. Hm... I smell number fudging

While I'm sure some people got Circuit City and Best Buy to price-match, I doubt it was 60,000 players anyway...

~Alan

dakota81 · 11-16-2007, 08:56 PM

Was the 90k for just Wal*Mart, or all the stores? Wal*Mart was the major retailer that sale, I'd assume most sales were through them, but I know a lot of people just ordered from Best Buy's website that weekend.

lztp6k · 11-16-2007, 09:10 PM

I'd like to know how they got the sales figures for walmart as well if they can't get them for the overall ratings of discs.

95pgtproject · 11-16-2007, 10:25 PM

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Originally Posted by Living Near Shamu

According to Home Media Magazine, http://www.nxtbook.com/nxtbooks/ques...1807/index.php Page 28 - Cover3 (Panel: Format War Helps Online), Wal Mart only sold 30,000 HD DUD players on the firesale day, not the 90,000 that were announced earlier. Hm... I smell number fudging

sounds like more BS from the HD DVD camp just like the transformers numbers. It should be illegal to lie about sales numbers they keep doing it to fool people that they are selling great it pisses me off

WickyWoo · 11-16-2007, 11:22 PM

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sounds like more BS from the HD DVD camp just like the transformers numbers. It should be illegal to lie about sales numbers they keep doing it to fool people that they are selling great it pisses me off

It is, they just never bust people for it

badboi · 11-16-2007, 11:45 PM

WickyWoo, every time I see your name I think of the song 2Wicky by Hooverphonic.

About the 30,000 number. Maybe that was actually the amount of players that were returned to Walmart after the new owners borked their updates.

11-16-2007, 08:33 PM	#1
Living Near Shamu Blu-ray Samurai Member since:Oct 2007 Location:Austin, TX Trading Score:42	Wal Mart Only Sold 30,000 HD DUD Players? According to Home Media Magazine, http://www.nxtbook.com/nxtbooks/ques...1807/index.php Page 28 - Cover3 (Panel: Format War Helps Online), Wal Mart only sold 30,000 HD DUD players on the firesale day, not the 90,000 that were announced earlier. Hm... I smell number fudging

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11-16-2007, 08:56 PM	#3
dakota81 Expert Member Member since:Apr 2007	Was the 90k for just WalMart, or all the stores? WalMart was the major retailer that sale, I'd assume most sales were through them, but I know a lot of people just ordered from Best Buy's website that weekend.

11-16-2007, 09:10 PM	#4
lztp6k Banned Member since:Oct 2007	I'd like to know how they got the sales figures for walmart as well if they can't get them for the overall ratings of discs.

11-16-2007, 11:45 PM	#7
badboi Special Member Member since:Sep 2007 Location:Atlanta	WickyWoo, every time I see your name I think of the song 2Wicky by Hooverphonic. About the 30,000 number. Maybe that was actually the amount of players that were returned to Walmart after the new owners borked their updates.

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