Did the buy-a-thon kill Amazon?

[L or S of Perfect?]

amazon's choking on all our orders. lol

[slickkeng]

I've been tracking amazon sales rank on and off at hidef digest and it looks now that the HD-DVD versions of smallville, planet earth, and 300 have outsold the blu-ray versions! WTF is going on??? If you look at their graphs, HD-DVD has gained alot of ground! Is it because of the whole amazon HD-DVD promo for 8 HD-DVD movies? Do these freebies count toward their sales ranks? Anyway, considering the sale-a-thon I'm kinda shocked that they could catch up so much (well on amazon only anyway). Check it out at http://amazon.highdefdigest.com/, click on custom graphs and pull back for the last 2 days.

[blublublu]

Originally Posted by slickkeng

I've been tracking amazon sales rank on and off at hidef digest and it looks now that the HD-DVD versions of smallville, planet earth, and 300 have outsold the blu-ray versions! WTF is going on??? If you look at their graphs, HD-DVD has gained alot of ground! Is it because of the whole amazon HD-DVD promo for 8 HD-DVD movies? Do these freebies count toward their sales ranks?

The same promo applies to Blu Ray. The 2 Amazon free movies would count.

[kamiller42]

Originally Posted by slickkeng

I've been tracking amazon sales rank on and off at hidef digest and it looks now that the HD-DVD versions of smallville, planet earth, and 300 have outsold the blu-ray versions! WTF is going on??? If you look at their graphs, HD-DVD has gained alot of ground! Is it because of the whole amazon HD-DVD promo for 8 HD-DVD movies? Do these freebies count toward their sales ranks? Anyway, considering the sale-a-thon I'm kinda shocked that they could catch up so much (well on amazon only anyway). Check it out at http://amazon.highdefdigest.com/, click on custom graphs and pull back for the last 2 days.

There has been a strange HD DVD surge at Amazon. I was checking things out at eProductWars, and it tells the same story. What is even stranger is how the blu line has barely budged in the past couple of days. Maybe most people bought there blu's outside Amazon. I know I did. We will just have to see how the week's numbers look.

In regards to 300, looks like HD DVD is falling. Smallville is still less than Blu. Ditto for Planet Earth.

[katharsis]

Order placed yesterday shows delivery estimate of Oct 15 - Oct 19 with free super saver shipping, I will most likely upgrade to at least standard shipping which shows estimated delivery of Oct 5 - Oct 9.

[The Shrike]

Originally Posted by kamiller42

There has been a strange HD DVD surge at Amazon. I was checking things out at eProductWars, and it tells the same story. What is even stranger is how the blu line has barely budged in the past couple of days. Maybe most people bought there blu's outside Amazon. I know I did. We will just have to see how the week's numbers look.

In regards to 300, looks like HD DVD is falling. Smallville is still less than Blu. Ditto for Planet Earth.

I noticed that too. What IS going on at Amazon? It looks like a steady increase for HD DVD, but I don't see why that would be happening.... Anyone have thoughts?

[erowe83]

Yea I have never had a problem till now. Usually my orders ship the night before release. This time my Troy hasnt shipped yet. I ordered it late so maybe they are fulfilling orders by how long its been preordered.

[Rustmonsteru]

Originally Posted by kamiller42

There has been a strange HD DVD surge at Amazon. I was checking things out at eProductWars, and it tells the same story. What is even stranger is how the blu line has barely budged in the past couple of days. Maybe most people bought there blu's outside Amazon. I know I did. We will just have to see how the week's numbers look.

In regards to 300, looks like HD DVD is falling. Smallville is still less than Blu. Ditto for Planet Earth.

I did my purchasing at Warner (25% code), Best Buy ($20.00 reward zone certificate) & DVDEmpire this week.

Amazon is on my sh** list right now; it always takes them like 5-7 days to ship out in stock items to me . DVDEmpire costs me $0.35 a BD more, I get my stuff in three days by free shipping and it ships by 3pm the day it's in stock. I'm not buying into Amazon prime to get treated better either - that's BS.

[AlaskaDon]

I ordered Troy on August 8th along with about a dozen other titles with mixed release dates, and Troy finally shipped this afternoon. Hopefully it won't take Amazon too long to get caught up on their orders.

I was going to pick up Troy locally when I heard about the shipping delays, but my local Best Buy didn't get the 6 copies that they thought they had. I would have just refused the Amazon shipment when it showed up. Suncoast actually had it on the shelf when I looked last night, but they wanted $35 for it. How sick is that? Suncoast is the worst I've ever seen pricewise, but strangely they have everything on release day.

[kamiller42]

Originally Posted by Rustmonsteru

Amazon is on my sh** list right now; it always takes them like 5-7 days to ship out in stock items to me . DVDEmpire costs me $0.35 a BD and I get my stuff in three days by free shipping and it ships by 3pm the day it's in stock. I'm not buying into Amazon prime to get treated better either - that's BS.

Amazon does seem to be going bad. They used to ship fast on just about everything. Now, I think they are trying to keep inventory levels low to reduce overhead. We are feeling it on this side of things.

It's not just high def DVDs either. About 2 months, my order for Space Ghost Coast to Coast Vol 1-3 went from shipping in 1.5 - 2 weeks to shipping on 2/6/08!! A saw I ordered last month has an estimated ship date of October 2, 2007 - October 19, 2007. Those two orders and one other were all open because of shipping delays. 3 orders which could not ship. Aggravating.

[ryanpatrick]

ordered my 2 last night. House of 1,000 Corpses & The Replacement Killers. got them in the mail today. amazon has always been good with shipping speed. at least with my experience with them.

[DAMNSAM77]

Ordered my 4 (in-stock) BD movies from Amazon about 28 hours ago and they have all shipped as of just a few minutes ago!

[Copywriter]

Originally Posted by The Shrike

I noticed that too. What IS going on at Amazon? It looks like a steady increase for HD DVD, but I don't see why that would be happening.... Anyone have thoughts?

It could be that 300 isn't that great of a movie (3 of 5 stars) in a film sense and the obvious demographic that it was made for resides more with 360 owners and their add-ons that with BLU people. Honestly, it was a 3 of 5 for me. You had 5 minutes of story and lots of stop-motion and over-killed lines.

The movie could have been much more than it was. Sorry, I'm not 12 and simply ripping a head off isn't enough to make a film worthy. Troy, Rome (HBO) and others are heads and shoulders above this movie.

Honestly, I'm sad that I bought it on BLU. Should have just got the SD version and upscaled it.

It's hard to say without looking at demographics, but that's my initial take.

[MrVorhees]

hehe nothing can beat the power of blu-ray fans with full enthusiasm!!!

Next time on oct. 16. "IM IN"

[Blu Titan]

Before the Buy-A-thon our sales rank of the top 100 titles was 2090 now it is 1400.4 (DUD's top 100 is 2853.47) We are doing AWESOME!

[kamiller42]

Originally Posted by Blu/eNeon

Before the Buy-A-thon our sales rank of the top 100 titles was 2090 now it is 1400.4 (DUD's top 100 is 2853.47) We are doing AWESOME!

Well, we know we're awesome. I mean, we're doing awesome. The question is what is pushing the HD DVD sales up so fast at Amazon. Go to the Top 10 and look at the past 7 days. (See Time Span in top right.) What happened starting mid-day on 9/16?

[slickkeng]

Originally Posted by kamiller42

Well, we know we're awesome. I mean, we're doing awesome. The question is what is pushing the HD DVD sales up so fast at Amazon. Go to the Top 10 and look at the past 7 days. (See Time Span in top right.) What happened starting mid-day on 9/16?

Yea I've been wondering that myself. Even Smallville, 300 and planet earth on HD-DVD climbed above blu-rays ranks now! WTH! I suspect the HD-DVDers are making all their purchases on amazon only to drive their numbers up to counter the "buy-a-thon" we had. But alot of members bought their BD's at B&M stores and other online retailers, but still it seems kinda off.

[thebluemax]

I don't see how this buy day has affected the numbers at all, at least at Amazon?

Why, for example, is Troy BD like 90 something. I thought this titles would sell through the roof

[Paradiso]

Yeah it took some time for my order of Jailhouse Rock to get shipped but it finally did yesterday evening. I think it's hit and miss. I have a book and a cd that have been taking a bit longer than usual to go from 'shipping soon' to shipped. It happens. Don't forget, the holidays are just around the corner so you may run into this a bit more often, tho the last few xmas's they had been pretty promt, so who knows.

[ryoohki]

Originally Posted by Copywriter

It could be that 300 isn't that great of a movie (3 of 5 stars) in a film sense and the obvious demographic that it was made for resides more with 360 owners and their add-ons that with BLU people. Honestly, it was a 3 of 5 for me. You had 5 minutes of story and lots of stop-motion and over-killed lines.

The movie could have been much more than it was. Sorry, I'm not 12 and simply ripping a head off isn't enough to make a film worthy. Troy, Rome (HBO) and others are heads and shoulders above this movie.

Honestly, I'm sad that I bought it on BLU. Should have just got the SD version and upscaled it.

It's hard to say without looking at demographics, but that's my initial take.

Nah, the DVD version is full of Macroblock and EE, i started to watch it on SD DVD to test it, and quickly removed the disc from my PS3, the share amount of MB made me barf.... I mean earlier DVD release were much better than what we get now, the peak of DVD was 1999,2000,2001, after that it slowly got to hell with more and more crappy transfert coming out, i sold all my DVD in 2003 after being pissed off about the quality...