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Postby EarthCurrent » Fri Feb 21, 2003 7:25 pm

Chaos Angel wrote:
earthcurrent wrote:Selling anything at cost is impossible to do and still stay in business. You wouldn't call ADV and demand to get Evangelion at the price it cost them to print the DVDs (not and not get laughed off of the phone at any rate).


Yes, but they have legal ownership for North American distribution, so they could sell at a loss, or for X10 its realistic market value and I couldn't say much about it.

AMVs are fan produced, and the exchange of money for a "technically illegal" fan produced product shouldn't be involved in their distribution.
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Postby AbsoluteDestiny » Fri Feb 21, 2003 7:33 pm

it's non-profit... what's the problem?

The reason they are doing this is to get some advertising - they aren't making anything out of the dvds themselves unless people decide to buy their products.
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Postby klinky » Fri Feb 21, 2003 7:59 pm

Earthcurrent has a problem with the administrative costs.

Usually that's headed up by the distributor. Also the fact that it's a real company distro'ing the DVD. That there is no actual "cost list" that shows what's being spent.

Usually, like say for the AMV distro center or the DDR1 project or "This is Otakudom", there is a list like "It's $3 for a VHS tape and $5 for a SVHS tape and $4 for S&H". Or "Send us a blank tape and a bubble wrapped envelope with shipping included".

This is a $17 DVD that you don't know exactly where it's going. Also their page is like :? ugly or something. They don't really give much info on the DVD either. There's a gammer mistake as well :o

Usually with a fan-based distro the person doing the distro swallows these "Administrative costs". Administrative I believe = time & energy that went into getting the DVD out and talking to the right people and setting up a website. But that was their deal, if they wanted to do it, they should have been prepared to swallow those costs.

I think it's a bad idea for a company to actually distro a AMV DVD >_> seems like a big legal sandwhich. :o


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Postby klinky » Fri Feb 21, 2003 8:00 pm

"gammer mistake".. - priceless :lol:
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Postby EarthCurrent » Sat Feb 22, 2003 1:27 am

klinky wrote:Earthcurrent has a problem with the administrative costs.

Usually that's headed up by the distributor. Also the fact that it's a real company distro'ing the DVD. That there is no actual "cost list" that shows what's being spent.

Usually, like say for the AMV distro center or the DDR1 project or "This is Otakudom", there is a list like "It's $3 for a VHS tape and $5 for a SVHS tape and $4 for S&H". Or "Send us a blank tape and a bubble wrapped envelope with shipping included".

This is a $17 DVD that you don't know exactly where it's going. Also their page is like :? ugly or something. They don't really give much info on the DVD either. There's a gammer mistake as well :o

Usually with a fan-based distro the person doing the distro swallows these "Administrative costs". Administrative I believe = time & energy that went into getting the DVD out and talking to the right people and setting up a website. But that was their deal, if they wanted to do it, they should have been prepared to swallow those costs.

I think it's a bad idea for a company to actually distro a AMV DVD >_> seems like a big legal sandwhich. :o


~klinky


Thank you for putting my problems with this issue into far clearer words, Klinky, much appreciated... :D
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