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- The Fanciful Norwegian
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I can beat that. At the Wal-Mart by me they are selling Fear and Loathing for $56.95 with a sticker on the front justifying the price by calling it one of their "Dead Person Blue Light Collectors Set". Ooooh that Wal-Mart, it gives me such a huge boner just think about how much I hate them. In fact I like to think that I truely define myself as a person by how much I hate Wal-Mart.Nihonophile wrote:I saw that, hmm I wonder why??? Couldn't have anything to do with a certain author's death and their desire to cash in on that...nooo, couldn't be. I hate Walmart so much.Mr Pixies wrote:Walmart is now selling the Criterion edition of Fear and Loathing for 32 bucks.
...oh, and McDonalds too. Did you see Super Size Me...
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Bestselling Criterion Titles at Amazon
I just searched "Criterion" under DVD in Amazon, and sorted by bestselling. Here are top 20. Discuss.
1. Grey Gardens
2. The Royal Tenenbaums
3. The Life Aquatic With Steve Zissou (2-disc)
4. Fear And Loathing In Las Vegas
5. Seven Samurai
6. 3 Films By Louis Malle (Box)
7. Metropolitan
8. Chasing Amy
9. Young Mr. Lincoln
10. The Third Man
11. Brazil
12. Kind Hearts & Coronets
13. Notorious (OOP)
14. Ran
15. The Battle Of Agliers
16. The Life Aquatic With Steven Zissou (1 disc)
17. A Night To Remember
18. Akira Kurosawa - 4 Samurai Classics (Box)
19. Rashomon
20. The Last Temptation Of Christ
1. Grey Gardens
2. The Royal Tenenbaums
3. The Life Aquatic With Steve Zissou (2-disc)
4. Fear And Loathing In Las Vegas
5. Seven Samurai
6. 3 Films By Louis Malle (Box)
7. Metropolitan
8. Chasing Amy
9. Young Mr. Lincoln
10. The Third Man
11. Brazil
12. Kind Hearts & Coronets
13. Notorious (OOP)
14. Ran
15. The Battle Of Agliers
16. The Life Aquatic With Steven Zissou (1 disc)
17. A Night To Remember
18. Akira Kurosawa - 4 Samurai Classics (Box)
19. Rashomon
20. The Last Temptation Of Christ
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Clearly, the currently running Off-Broadway musical version is fueling those sales. Makes me wonder whether Criterion delayed the 2-disc set for a while & sent the 1-disc for an additional pressing to satisfy the current demand. In addition, they stand to gain more double-dippers when the new set finally does hit the street (a motive not entirely lost on them, I'd bet).n. w. wrote:In which case I pity the fools who are currently purchasing Grey Gardens.
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There's also a feature film being made starring Jessica Lange and Drew Barrymore that has been in the news lately, which I'm sure has boosted sales.FilmFanSea wrote:Clearly, the currently running Off-Broadway musical version is fueling those sales. Makes me wonder whether Criterion delayed the 2-disc set for a while & sent the 1-disc for an additional pressing to satisfy the current demand. In addition, they stand to gain more double-dippers when the new set finally does hit the street (a motive not entirely lost on them, I'd bet).n. w. wrote:In which case I pity the fools who are currently purchasing Grey Gardens.
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I think this thread is a waste of time, since amazon's attempt to list anything in the correct order completely sucks. arrange the discs from price: low to high or vice versa, and it wont work, you'll get prices from all over the place. the list is bogus, unless ofcourse you checked every link and the sales rank defeats the next.
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I agree, those Amazon ranking filters are garbage. Besides, anyone who is buying Criterion DVDs from Amazon--at full retail price!--is, by definition, clueless about the label, and possibly not too smart about other things (certainly not about saving money). I don't know if we can take them to be representative.SncDthMnky wrote:I think this thread is a waste of time, since amazon's attempt to list anything in the correct order completely sucks. arrange the discs from price: low to high or vice versa, and it wont work, you'll get prices from all over the place. the list is bogus, unless ofcourse you checked every link and the sales rank defeats the next.
What we really need is somebody with access to Nielsen VideoScan to put up a list like this. Now that would actually mean something.
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At my old job, I had access to Nielsen Soundscan and from what I remember it does not allow for ranking by studio. Feature-wise, Videoscan is a bit newer (the company I was working for considered buying into that program as well) but the search features were even more primitive. I presume it's to keep that kind of sales information to the companies themselves.
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Oh, well. I guess in that case we'll never really know the relative sales of CC titles unless we hear it directly from the horse's mouth. I would definitely take the Amazon results with a boulder of salt.Antoine Doinel wrote:At my old job, I had access to Nielsen Soundscan and from what I remember it does not allow for ranking by studio. Feature-wise, Videoscan is a bit newer (the company I was working for considered buying into that program as well) but the search features were even more primitive. I presume it's to keep that kind of sales information to the companies themselves.
- Cold Bishop
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I do believe, if not for the free shipping advantage, all these could be had for a dollar or two cheaper individually through DVDPlanet. When you include the current 20% sale, you'd be mad to buy these boxes.jaredsap wrote:How is 30% - 35% off "way overpriced"? I know it can't beat the DVD Planet and Deep Discount sales, but it's still a fine deal.eez28 wrote:Way overpriced IMO
Considering I always thought the main advantage to boxsets of pre-released films were to buy all the films for considerably cheaper than getting them individually, then even with the free shipping advantage edging out dvd planet (outside of this month), the price advantage isn't enough compared to the competition that I think its of the question to call it overpriced.
Compared to Amazon's usually ridiculous prices, then yes, it is quite a bargain.
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