BDs That Are Out of Print (OOP)

[Irongod2112]

Looks like Best Buy has a few coming in of

The Who Kilburn 77

Better be quick if ya want one

https://www.bestbuy.com/site/at-kilb...skuId=22461761

[cropduster]

[HD Goofnut]

Originally Posted by cropduster

[Show spoiler]

Done.

[thatguamguy]

What did they do to finally sell out of that one? Did they give it away free with any purchase?

[NeMo_ET]

Originally Posted by thatguamguy

What did they do to finally sell out of that one? Did they give it away free with any purchase?

No one wants it until it's OOP. Now people will pay $500 for it. I've never seen or heard of it (Mindwarp) but it seems like something that would be entertaining to me.

[Keymaster]

Originally Posted by thatguamguy

What did they do to finally sell out of that one? Did they give it away free with any purchase?

They included a limited edition Bruce Campbell bronze chin bust with the purchase?

[bigdaddyhorse]

Originally Posted by thatguamguy

What did they do to finally sell out of that one? Did they give it away free with any purchase?

I know I saw it down to the $9.95 range, and think it dropped to $4.95 at one point. It did survive many sales shortly after I had bought it for full price. It is pretty fun, you can probably still get it cheap on ebay. If anyone bought extras to scalp, they gonna lose!

[Torrente]

What amazes me is that they sold a huge amount of copies that cheap (7$ and even 5$ apparently during sales).
In France, where I live, you can't sell anything at loss. So if it's the same in the US (which I'm not sure it is), they probably still make profit or at list recoup at that price... which is quite disturbing because all their disc are 30$...

[Ruined]

Originally Posted by Torrente

What amazes me is that they sold a huge amount of copies that cheap (7$ and even 5$ apparently during sales).
In France, where I live, you can't sell anything at loss. So if it's the same in the US (which I'm not sure it is), they probably still make profit or at list recoup at that price... which is quite disturbing because all their disc are 30$...

US has no said regulations, you can sell at a loss and companies frequently do to clear stock.

Main cost is not in the plastic disc/case/paper but the licensing/encoding/etc.

[neo_reloaded]

We don't have laws like that here, though they probably did still break even on the title as a whole since they sold so many initial copies at the full price.

I don't know about MindWarp specifically, but they said the breakeven point for many titles is about 1500, the halfway point (with the licensing being the vast majority of the expense). So for consistent pricing across all 3000 copies, the breakeven price would be $15.

[thatguamguy]

Originally Posted by Torrente

What amazes me is that they sold a huge amount of copies that cheap (7$ and even 5$ apparently during sales).
In France, where I live, you can't sell anything at loss. So if it's the same in the US (which I'm not sure it is), they probably still make profit or at list recoup at that price... which is quite disturbing because all their disc are 30$...

I don't think the Twilight Time model would work at all under that system; since they have to pay to store unsold copies of the disc, it sounds like they would have to raise the price every few months or risk running afoul of the law.

[BurningAstronaut]

DiabolikDVD has declared on social media:

“The Amicus Collection from Severin Films is officially sold out and only copies that remain in the wild are still up for grabs. We have a healthy supply of them, until we don't ...”

[HD Goofnut]

Originally Posted by BurningAstronaut

DiabolikDVD has declared on social media:

“The Amicus Collection from Severin Films is officially sold out and only copies that remain in the wild are still up for grabs. We have a healthy supply of them, until we don't ...”

I went ahead and put it italics too even though Amazon's price is still reasonable.

[James Luckard]

Originally Posted by thatguamguy

I don't think the Twilight Time model would work at all under that system; since they have to pay to store unsold copies of the disc, it sounds like they would have to raise the price every few months or risk running afoul of the law.

I had never heard of this French law before, I wonder if it's similar across Europe, it would explain something that has been a mystery to me for years - why European BDs, DVDs and CDs seem to go OOP very quickly, after being printed in limited numbers.

Grateful we have no such laws here.

I can't even figure out who a law against selling merchandise at a loss is designed to protect, very strange.

[SuperFlyHighGuy]

Originally Posted by James Luckard

I had never heard of this French law before, I wonder if it's similar across Europe, it would explain something that has been a mystery to me for years - why European BDs, DVDs and CDs seem to go OOP very quickly, after being printed in limited numbers.

Grateful we have no such laws here.

I can't even figure out who a law against selling merchandise at a loss is designed to protect, very strange.

Well we do have that with gasoline, I thought - pretty sure a gas station can't sell gas for less than they paid.

[iaragorn1]

Originally Posted by SuperFlyHighGuy

Well we do have that with gasoline, I thought - pretty sure a gas station can't sell gas for less than they paid.

Huh. I've seen gas stations charge ultra low prices or even free for special events (not that I recall it happening recently near me, too bad). Honda was giving away free gas to twitter followers a few years ago.

I'm sure the gas station owner has to pay what ever his wholesale price is. Chevron or whoever wants to get paid, and probably don't care who is laying out the dollars or if anyone besides themselves are making a profit.

[Torrente]

Originally Posted by James Luckard

I had never heard of this French law before, I wonder if it's similar across Europe, it would explain something that has been a mystery to me for years - why European BDs, DVDs and CDs seem to go OOP very quickly, after being printed in limited numbers.

Grateful we have no such laws here.

I can't even figure out who a law against selling merchandise at a loss is designed to protect, very strange.

Don't "worry" the big large companies found their ways to get around this law

[Kingofkod]

Originally Posted by SuperFlyHighGuy

Well we do have that with gasoline, I thought - pretty sure a gas station can't sell gas for less than they paid.

Most gas stations sell gas at a loss. That's why the prices vary so much around most towns. Those places make all their money off the snacks and fountain drinks sold inside. Kinda like a movie theater.

[HD Goofnut]

Originally Posted by Kingofkod

Most gas stations sell gas at a loss. That's why the prices vary so much around most towns. Those places make all their money off the snacks and fountain drinks sold inside. Kinda like a movie theater.

That's correct. Most of what you pay per gallon for fuel in the US is state/federal taxes.

[deltatauhobbit]

You can remove Remote Control under Lieberman (or add a note to the entry), he pressed another batch and you can buy it directly from him at http://jeffliebermandirector.com/purchase.html, he's also selling it under his own eBay account if you prefer that route.