01-19-2006, 01:39 PM
Hi,
You are right that it's annoying for a customer to buy something and two weeks later, a new 'special edition' comes out.
Yet there's one solution I see:
Don't buy DVDs at all. They are expensive (15â¬-30⬠when they hit the market), and most of them you don't watch twice anyway. Rent them! There are several DVD-rentals in my hometown, one even offering 24h service via automatic renting with fingerprint scanning. Rental fees vary from 1⬠for the first 3 hours (the 24h shop) to 2⬠until the next workday if you have a 10-film-combi-card at a standard DVD-rental.
Plus, in my experience, the 'super-duper-bonus-material' isn't worth the extra buck. At the beginning I often skimmed through the boni on the DVDs, and sometimes I do so nowadays. But guess what - it's mostly boring interviews with cutters, deleted scenes that really deserved to be deleted, photos - man, I just watched the movie! Why photos? - , trailers (actually nice, but not content-wise connected to the main movie) or other useless trivia. I don't think that that plays a role, and when you're a LotR fan, you'll wait until the major collector's edition box comes out anyways.
Oh, and one word to Pete: Don't get high-handed . While you may be into it, many people can't handle the internet so very well. And often times it takes place that people make a family purchase and see an offer for a DVD that interests them - zack, they buy it. Stating that every person could inform themself beforehand is hypocrisy in 99% of the cases - I know nobody who never in his life made a wrong choice because the lack of information. I'm giving you an example:
You are interested in a car. The dealer tells you that a navigation system would cost 1750$ extra charge, but that you'd pay 2500$ if you would have it installed later, and so you order it. You seem to recall from your internet research that that what he told you holds true, and you are satisfied.
4 weeks later, your new car hasn't even been delivered by now, the company announces a face-lift of the model series which includes the integration of the navigation system in the equipment version that you had ordered (let's say it's the top-notch variant), coming along with a mere 1% price increase (let's say 600$ for a 60000$ car). Now don't tell me that you ain't mad, no matter whether you could have guessed at the face-lift if you had bought the proper car magazines for a couple of weeks before your deal.
No harm intended.
Greetings, Fragbait
You are right that it's annoying for a customer to buy something and two weeks later, a new 'special edition' comes out.
Yet there's one solution I see:
Don't buy DVDs at all. They are expensive (15â¬-30⬠when they hit the market), and most of them you don't watch twice anyway. Rent them! There are several DVD-rentals in my hometown, one even offering 24h service via automatic renting with fingerprint scanning. Rental fees vary from 1⬠for the first 3 hours (the 24h shop) to 2⬠until the next workday if you have a 10-film-combi-card at a standard DVD-rental.
Plus, in my experience, the 'super-duper-bonus-material' isn't worth the extra buck. At the beginning I often skimmed through the boni on the DVDs, and sometimes I do so nowadays. But guess what - it's mostly boring interviews with cutters, deleted scenes that really deserved to be deleted, photos - man, I just watched the movie! Why photos? - , trailers (actually nice, but not content-wise connected to the main movie) or other useless trivia. I don't think that that plays a role, and when you're a LotR fan, you'll wait until the major collector's edition box comes out anyways.
Oh, and one word to Pete: Don't get high-handed . While you may be into it, many people can't handle the internet so very well. And often times it takes place that people make a family purchase and see an offer for a DVD that interests them - zack, they buy it. Stating that every person could inform themself beforehand is hypocrisy in 99% of the cases - I know nobody who never in his life made a wrong choice because the lack of information. I'm giving you an example:
You are interested in a car. The dealer tells you that a navigation system would cost 1750$ extra charge, but that you'd pay 2500$ if you would have it installed later, and so you order it. You seem to recall from your internet research that that what he told you holds true, and you are satisfied.
4 weeks later, your new car hasn't even been delivered by now, the company announces a face-lift of the model series which includes the integration of the navigation system in the equipment version that you had ordered (let's say it's the top-notch variant), coming along with a mere 1% price increase (let's say 600$ for a 60000$ car). Now don't tell me that you ain't mad, no matter whether you could have guessed at the face-lift if you had bought the proper car magazines for a couple of weeks before your deal.
No harm intended.
Greetings, Fragbait
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