Twilight Time Discussion Thread

[jayembee]

Originally Posted by apperson051

Oh, so if I have orders on "Awaiting Shipment" then the titles will be safe then?

That seems to be the consensus. My order is still Awaiting Fulfillment, and three of the titles have the dreaded "cannot be reordered" note (and another two have the same note, but because they are currently out of stock, but not actually sold out).

I won't be completely anxiety-free until the order actually ships with all hands on board. Any that aren't are still available (knock on wood) at SAE, but who knows how long that will be the case.

[jayembee]

Originally Posted by hariseldon

CRITICAL LOW STOCK WARNING at SAE

SENSE AND SENSIBILITY (1995) -- just dropped to 49 copies
The last couple have lasted less than an hour after dropping below 50.

It's about freakin' time!

[RBBrittain]

Originally Posted by jayembee

That seems to be the consensus. My order is still Awaiting Fulfillment, and three of the titles have the dreaded "cannot be reordered" note (and another two have the same note, but because they are currently out of stock, but not actually sold out).

I won't be completely anxiety-free until the order actually ships with all hands on board. Any that aren't are still available (knock on wood) at SAE, but who knows how long that will be the case.

I'm with you on that; my pending TT order has one OOS & one "cannot be reordered" item, but that's also true of the ones that shipped. All four items in that order are still available at SAE, but until it ships I'll remain concerned.

[78deluxe]

Originally Posted by RBBrittain

My initial 4-disc TT order (#762xx, 5/11) still hasn't shipped; but my later single-disc TT orders (#762xx, 5/11, about 30 minutes later; #774xx, 5/13) both shipped today, as well as my two-disc SAE order from 5/13.

Thank you for posting this.


Given they posted about processing orders in the order they were received, they are taking longer than a week to ship titles ordered on the first day of the sale, and to top it off there are reports of canceling orders, really would be nice if they would provide another update.

Never experienced these order cancellation/inventory problems previously. It seemed like it used to be very reliable, if the order went through - you would get a shipment.

Oh, and the fact that there are ebay sellers with over 10 copies of titles, also tends to suggest they catered to the scalpers.

[prkchopexpress]

what do they gain by catering to scalpers and how would they even know?

do you think they’re emailing customer service to let them know? they had a ton of orders. it’s going to take time.

but sure, i guess we should trust you, random entitled person on the internet. it can’t just be that it could take time to pack and ship 40000 titles. i mean, it’s not like they sent an email out that said they were overwhelmed by orders and it would take time.

[jayembee]

Originally Posted by 78deluxe

Oh, and the fact that there are ebay sellers with over 10 copies of titles, also tends to suggest they catered to the scalpers.

That's not really fair. I realize it's maddening -- it is to me, too (or would be, if any of those titles are ones I missed out on) -- but...

(1) They are going out of business. They undoubtedly have debts that need to be paid off, so selling however many discs any given customer wants to buy is a perfectly reasonable thing to do, whether that customer is a scalper or not.

(2) It's not like people didn't have plenty of opportunity to buy these releases before the scalpers got to them. If you held off on buying any of these titles waiting for the price to drop, that's on you. They are all limited to 3000 copies, so there should be no expectation that they'll be around forever waiting for you to decide the price is right.

[hariseldon]

They had 2 months of a sale that wasn't advertised as a closeout sale

SAE still has that sale and most of the Disc Titles (and many the TT didn't have even in March).

I'd say they gave routine customers a LOT OF TIME to buy things. Now it's a fire sale and anybody with cash to spend is entitled.

I'd prefer they sell to us, but us didn't seem to want them (of course until somebody else did) and preferred to complain about $1-2 per disc S/H charges on $6 and $9 titles

[Dollar Colonel]

I'll get around to watching all of these films someday, but I usually sell my unwanted films after watching. You betcha if I see them selling on eBay for $60 I'll be listing mine for $59.99 to fund future purchases. Does that make me a scalper? I'd be a fool to list mine for cost.

[AKORIS]

Originally Posted by Dollar Colonel

I'll get around to watching all of these films someday, but I usually sell my unwanted films after watching. You betcha if I see them selling on eBay for $60 I'll be listing mine for $59.99 to fund future purchases. Does that make me a scalper? I'd be a fool to list mine for cost.

[jayembee]

Originally Posted by hariseldon

CRITICAL LOW STOCK WARNING at SAE

SENSE AND SENSIBILITY (1995) -- just dropped to 49 copies
The last couple have lasted less than an hour after dropping below 50.

Originally Posted by jayembee

It's about freakin' time!

Stick a fork in it. It's done.

[bdgking]

Boxcar Bertha is now down to 49 units remaining at SAE then that is also Sold out

Sense and Sensibility sold out

Zelig & Cutters Way both under 100 remain at SAE

[prkchopexpress]

Originally Posted by Dollar Colonel

I'll get around to watching all of these films someday, but I usually sell my unwanted films after watching. You betcha if I see them selling on eBay for $60 I'll be listing mine for $59.99 to fund future purchases. Does that make me a scalper? I'd be a fool to list mine for cost.

are you trying to rationalize being a terrible person? what an enterprising person you are. we’re all so very impressed.

[hariseldon]

Originally Posted by jayembee

Stick a fork in it. It's done.

I was really shocked it was sitting at 47 units 30 minutes ago. The bots must have been sleeping or something or just lethargic from teh weekend gorge.

Bet yes, for emphasis -- SENSE AND SENSIBILITY -- SOLD OUT and now OOP unless some extras show up somewhere.

[Dollar Colonel]

Originally Posted by prkchopexpress

are you trying to rationalize being a terrible person? what an enterprising person you are. we’re all so very impressed.

No, I'm just trying to say that I should be allowed to sell my movies at whatever the going rate is. I understand hoarding to resell is "bad," but some of the whining about "scalpers" is the epitome of entitlement for a nonessential item.

[Monterey Jack]

I'm personally happy if I can sell a title for what I originally paid for it (plus shipping costs), but that's just me...

[Coatchief]

Originally Posted by jayembee

That's not really fair. I realize it's maddening -- it is to me, too (or would be, if any of those titles are ones I missed out on) -- but...

(1) They are going out of business. They undoubtedly have debts that need to be paid off, so selling however many discs any given customer wants to buy is a perfectly reasonable thing to do, whether that customer is a scalper or not.

(2) It's not like people didn't have plenty of opportunity to buy these releases before the scalpers got to them. If you held off on buying any of these titles waiting for the price to drop, that's on you. They are all limited to 3000 copies, so there should be no expectation that they'll be around forever waiting for you to decide the price is right.

Maybe with your insight you could kindly provide me with the criteria that the team picking/packing orders is using to arbitrarily decide who gets what from their order. I had zero issues with getting refunded for titles that sold out, but to find out that an order 300 numbers down the line got a title I have supposedly been refunded for is a little upsetting.

Was it because my order was larger? Was it because I am a first time customer at TT, previously only buying from SAE. Was it because I am Canadian? Did they simply misplace product for half a day in the confusion? There is most definitely a reason. My money is as good as the next persons.

[jayembee]

Originally Posted by Coatchief

Maybe with your insight you could kindly provide me with the criteria that the team picking/packing orders is using to arbitrarily decide who gets what from their order. I had zero issues with getting refunded for titles that sold out, but to find out that an order 300 numbers down the line got a title I have supposedly been refunded for is a little upsetting.

Was is because my order was larger? Was it because I am a first time customer at TT, previously only buying from SAE. Was it because I am Canadian? Did they simply misplace product for half a day in the confusion? There is most definitely a reason. My money is as good as the next persons.

I don't have a clue. That's a valid issue, but it's not the issue that I was addressing.

[hariseldon]

Round 2 -- 12:30am ET
BOXCAR BERTHA (1972) -- 48 copies at SAE

[RBBrittain]

Originally Posted by Coatchief

Maybe with your insight you could kindly provide me with the criteria that the team picking/packing orders is using to arbitrarily decide who gets what from their order. I had zero issues with getting refunded for titles that sold out, but to find out that an order 300 numbers down the line got a title I have supposedly been refunded for is a little upsetting.

Was is because my order was larger? Was it because I am a first time customer at TT, previously only buying from SAE. Was it because I am Canadian? Did they simply misplace product for half a day in the confusion? There is most definitely a reason. My money is as good as the next persons.

I certainly don't know the criteria for TT moving some orders ahead of others. However, the fact that I had two later, single-title orders ship ahead of my earlier, four-title order suggests the size of the order may be a factor. (I bought one title previously at TT; most of my past buys were from SAE. I'm not Canadian, but that could be a factor as international orders in general require more customs paperwork.) Smaller orders probably can be fulfilled more quickly than larger ones; it's possible TT chose to fulfill smaller orders first to clear out the massive backlog faster.

[prkchopexpress]

Originally Posted by Dollar Colonel

No, I'm just trying to say that I should be allowed to sell my movies at whatever the going rate is. I understand hoarding to resell is "bad," but some of the whining about "scalpers" is the epitome of entitlement for a nonessential item.

if you think this is making yourself look better, it isn’t.