01-20-2006, 11:13 PM
jahcs,Jan 19 2006, 12:54 PM Wrote:What I'm getting at here is that at that time there was no reason for me to suspect that a super-duper version would be out so soon. No materials or employees in the store suggested it. Nothing in the current advertising on t.v. or in magazines I had seen suggested it. Nothing my friends had seen or said suggested it. It was a $15.99 DVD, not a new car, I won't go to the ends of the Earth researching and agonizing over it's purchase.
That's funny, because I explicitly remember knowing about the "Gift Pack" (Collector's Edition, with the extra "treat" inside, like the statue book-ends, the Gollum statue, etc) before the "vanilla" version was even out. From multiple sources, including friends, the internet, and of course - the store where I pre-ordered each film.
As much as I HATE the entertainment industry in its current form, I cannot find any fault in what happened to you. You got fleeced because you didn't choose to open your eyes. Simple as that.
Now, if you want a REAL gripe, try buying a CD that is completely unplayable in my computer CD player AND my mp3 player due to some "copy protection" scheme that opens my computer up to virus vulnerabilities, instability, etc. Yeah, I'm talking about the Sony / BMG copy protection BS. Now THERE is a legitimate gripe, and I can't wait until they settle so I can get my free replacement CD (and additional free album, as it was drafted last I saw).
Roland *The Gunslinger*