Amazon Sold Out of the BDP-S300 - Blu-ray Forum

dvdirv · 06-19-2007, 03:23 PM

To show you the popularity of the Blu-ray format, I just bought a S300 which was delivered today and wanted to check to see if my vendor (Amazon) had a lower price set to match competition (they will adjust prices).

To my amazement, I discovered that Amazon was out of stock and their site showed shipment in 3-5 weeks! I just ordered the S300 on Saturday!

I am guessing that demand for this player is very high in light of the Blockbuster news of yesterday.

Anyone still have doubts about the superiority of HD-DVD winning the format war?

calgarymarc · 06-19-2007, 03:26 PM

Amazon.com currently lists '5' BDP-S300's in stock.

Link below:

http://www.amazon.com/Sony-BDP-S300-...2266701&sr=8-1

This # will definitely change as the players are sold.

*EDIT*: Weird, now it all changed... Availability: Usually ships within 3 to 5 weeks. Ships from and sold by Amazon.com. I believe what I was seeing is that 'WholeSaleAV' (through Amazon) has 5 players in stock.

AustinSTI · 06-19-2007, 04:38 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by calgarymarc

Amazon.com currently lists '5' BDP-S300's in stock.

Link below:

http://www.amazon.com/Sony-BDP-S300-...2266701&sr=8-1

This # will definitely change as the players are sold.

*EDIT*: Weird, now it all changed... Availability: Usually ships within 3 to 5 weeks. Ships from and sold by Amazon.com. I believe what I was seeing is that 'WholeSaleAV' (through Amazon) has 5 players in stock.

They don't stick you to servers so you are likely hitting one which hasn't updated the counts yet....or whose database hasn't had the counts replicated to it.

Jack Torrance · 06-19-2007, 04:47 PM

Does this player have bd-j interactive features? Some of the user comments on Amazon say that it can't play the interactive features on the POTC discs. Though I think this is probably hd-dud fanboi trolling.

dakota81 · 06-19-2007, 05:25 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by calgarymarc

Amazon.com currently lists '5' BDP-S300's in stock.

Link below:

http://www.amazon.com/Sony-BDP-S300-...2266701&sr=8-1

This # will definitely change as the players are sold.

*EDIT*: Weird, now it all changed... Availability: Usually ships within 3 to 5 weeks. Ships from and sold by Amazon.com. I believe what I was seeing is that 'WholeSaleAV' (through Amazon) has 5 players in stock.

I think that happens when, says, 5 people cancel their back-orders, it temporarily shows that number back in stock on the website until whatever actual stock update comes in later and corrects them all.

dialog_gvf · 06-19-2007, 05:27 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by dvdirv

To show you the popularity of the Blu-ray format, I just bought a S300 which was delivered today and wanted to check to see if my vendor (Amazon) had a lower price set to match competition (they will adjust prices).

So, how is it?

Gary

desmond · 06-19-2007, 05:33 PM

http://www.amazon.com/gp/offer-listi...2266701&sr=8-1

seems like amazon.com is out and the other place has a couple left, j&r is also out...

http://www.jr.com/JRProductPage.process?Product=4175286

as well as crutchfield's

http://www.crutchfield.com/S-Kq1sFuZ...p?i=158BDPS300

sakbarzad · 06-19-2007, 05:44 PM

ive had 2 shipments of the players and both shipments sold out within 2days

RichiPuppy · 06-19-2007, 05:48 PM

You know, I wouldn't go on amazon, and comment on hd-dvd players to convince people to stray away from them since I don't own one, and really don't have a true opinion on them, but why do hd-dvd fanboys do it? It's just so childish.

WickyWoo · 06-19-2007, 05:54 PM

Quote:

You know, I wouldn't go on amazon, and comment on hd-dvd players to convince people to stray away from them since I don't own one, and really don't have a true opinion on them, but why do hd-dvd fanboys do it?

See the 20 year history of the video game wars

They want to justify their purchase. The 10-20% with a lot of spare cash buy more than 1, or all 3, and then deride the rest for warring because "you should just buy all of them"

The bigger problem si that most people don't realize that the library of 1 studio is more than all the games put out on game consoles last generation, of which 2/3-3/4 is kept in print at any one time. Not like with games where it's usually OOP within a year.

clyon · 06-19-2007, 06:01 PM

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Originally Posted by sakbarzad

ive had 2 shipments of the players and both shipments sold out within 2days

How many players are in a shipment????

whippersnapper · 06-19-2007, 08:19 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by desmond

http://www.amazon.com/gp/offer-listi...2266701&sr=8-1

seems like amazon.com is out and the other place has a couple left, j&r is also out...

http://www.jr.com/JRProductPage.process?Product=4175286

as well as crutchfield's

http://www.crutchfield.com/S-Kq1sFuZ...p?i=158BDPS300

It's too early to make a judgement but anecdotally it appears that these puppies are selling fairly quickly after they come into stock. This goes for some of the Brick & Mortar stores also where employees or owners have posted their experience. The Amazon site said (at the time I looked at it) something like "usually ships within 3 to 5 weeks". So I'm assuming that any new orders there are, in essense, back orders. I hope Sony has huge quantities of these flowing continuously into the supply train. While this is all a good sign for Blu-ray, I hope supply and demand issues don't appear like with the PS3s last winter. That was a very frustrating time for folks in the market for a PS3.

desmond · 06-19-2007, 09:02 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by whippersnapper

It's too early to make a judgement but anecdotally it appears that these puppies are selling fairly quickly after they come into stock. This goes for some of the Brick & Mortar stores also where employees or owners have posted their experience. The Amazon site said (at the time I looked at it) something like "usually ships within 3 to 5 weeks". So I'm assuming that any new orders there are, in essense, back orders. I hope Sony has huge quantities of these flowing continuously into the supply train. While this is all a good sign for Blu-ray, I hope supply and demand issues don't appear like with the PS3s last winter. That was a very frustrating time for folks in the market for a PS3.

demand for this maybe high but not even close to ps3 launch.

ottscay · 06-20-2007, 07:06 AM

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Originally Posted by desmond

demand for this maybe high but not even close to ps3 launch.

Well, yeah. But is it high enough to catch slowing HD DVD stndalone sales in lieu of the Blockbuster announcement?

Odium69 · 06-20-2007, 07:24 AM

Just ordered mine at BB today with my 12% off coupon i made the manager honer because the associate said i couldn't at first. Should be in before the end of the week

BLu-Balls · 06-20-2007, 11:23 AM

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Originally Posted by Odium69

Just ordered mine at BB today with my 12% off coupon i made the manager honer because the associate said i couldn't at first. Should be in before the end of the week

Lol! Stupid ASSociate. I hate Best Buy

06-19-2007, 03:23 PM	#1
dvdirv Expert Member Member since:Dec 2006 Location:Atlanta, GA	Amazon Sold Out of the BDP-S300 To show you the popularity of the Blu-ray format, I just bought a S300 which was delivered today and wanted to check to see if my vendor (Amazon) had a lower price set to match competition (they will adjust prices). To my amazement, I discovered that Amazon was out of stock and their site showed shipment in 3-5 weeks! I just ordered the S300 on Saturday! I am guessing that demand for this player is very high in light of the Blockbuster news of yesterday. Anyone still have doubts about the superiority of HD-DVD winning the format war?

06-19-2007, 03:26 PM	#2
calgarymarc Senior Member Top contributor Member since:Jan 2007 Location:Canada 4K collection:173 Blu-ray collection:173	Amazon.com currently lists '5' BDP-S300's in stock. Link below: http://www.amazon.com/Sony-BDP-S300-...2266701&sr=8-1 This # will definitely change as the players are sold. EDIT: Weird, now it all changed... Availability: Usually ships within 3 to 5 weeks. Ships from and sold by Amazon.com. I believe what I was seeing is that 'WholeSaleAV' (through Amazon) has 5 players in stock. Last edited by calgarymarc; 06-19-2007 at 03:35 PM.

06-19-2007, 05:33 PM	#7
desmond Senior Member Member since:May 2007 Blu-ray collection:262 Blu-ray reviews:2	http://www.amazon.com/gp/offer-listi...2266701&sr=8-1 seems like amazon.com is out and the other place has a couple left, j&r is also out... http://www.jr.com/JRProductPage.process?Product=4175286 as well as crutchfield's http://www.crutchfield.com/S-Kq1sFuZ...p?i=158BDPS300 Last edited by desmond; 06-19-2007 at 05:39 PM.

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