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Nadia Bundle $110

Postby TaranT » Fri Apr 04, 2003 3:48 am

The Right Stuf again: all 10 DVDs - total of 39 episodes - plus the movie I think. It says "1-11" and the TV series is only ten DVDs. Going for $110 (normally $330).
http://www.rightstuf.com/1-800-338-6827/catalogmgr/CUzvvzw=kTRr4vH6bT/browse/item/59736/4/0/0
Item number: pack1287

Unfortunately...it's out of stock. And no indication how long the sale is good for.

For newbies: Nadia is a television series that was made for Japanese public TV and directed by Evangelion's Hideaki Anno back in 1989. It's very popular and has been voted "best anime ever made" (Animage magazine 1997).

More info here:
http://utd500.utdallas.edu/~hairston/nadiahpbck.html
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Postby AbsoluteDestiny » Fri Apr 04, 2003 4:26 am

the offer ends on the 10th.

Likewise, all of votoms, if it's your sort of thing

http://www.rightstuf.com/1-800-338-6827 ... 89/4/153/0

Normal Price: $479.20
Sale Price: $82.99

that's pretty good for a large amount of footage :)
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Postby Brad » Fri Apr 04, 2003 6:41 am

I swear TRSI does a new one of these deals every week. I REALLY wanted to do the Nadia one :\ No $$$ though.

But it makes me question their cost on these DVDs. Or are they taking a loss by selling em in order to unload inventory? ..... who knows
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Postby TaranT » Fri Apr 04, 2003 2:22 pm

AbsoluteDestiny wrote:Likewise, all of votoms, if it's your sort of thing...

$5 per DVD ??? Tempting, but I would never manage to watch all of it.

AtomX wrote:But it makes me question their cost on these DVDs. Or are they taking a loss by selling em in order to unload inventory? ..... who knows

It does make one wonder what the true cost (at the manufacturing or distribution level) of DVDs is. Even if they're taking a loss, it can't be that much, not week after week.

Unless they are getting overrun stock from the secondary market; e.g. Crazy Sam's Distressed Merchandise, 20 gross anime DVDs, $0.25 per pound. And if they're getting them out of a trunk of a car down on First Avenue...I don't want to know about it.

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Postby Red Wolf » Fri Apr 04, 2003 9:47 pm

There are lots of other factors other than cost and overstock that may be at work. They could see a gain in traffic and more profitable purchases by generating traffic with significant discounts. There also may be a "point" system in play where the reseller gets money and/or credit from the publisher for selling X amount of copies. In that case selling at or near cost could still generate more incoming by both generating traffic which generates other sales and getting kick backs from the publisher.

I'm not in the DVD resell business myself but I've seen similar models running in many other resell enviroments so it is something to consider. An actual insider opinion would be very welcomed as well.
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Postby Stoic » Fri Apr 04, 2003 11:26 pm

AbsoluteDestiny wrote:the offer ends on the 10th.


Bullshit! ARGH Not fair. I don't get paid untill the 10th.
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Postby TaranT » Sat Apr 05, 2003 2:16 pm

Red Wolf wrote:There are lots of other factors other than cost and overstock that may be at work. They could see a gain in traffic and more profitable purchases by generating traffic with significant discounts. There also may be a "point" system in play where the reseller gets money and/or credit from the publisher for selling X amount of copies. In that case selling at or near cost could still generate more incoming by both generating traffic which generates other sales and getting kick backs from the publisher.

I think the market for new cars works like that.

A few years ago when laserdiscs were disappearing, you could find stacks of LDs going for $0.50 and up. They were usually defaced with a small slot or hole punched out of the sleeve. They were called "cutouts" or "punchouts".
Cut-out (aka punchout):
The LD jacket or box has a hole in one corner or a nick in the edge near a corner. This is not a defect, unless the punch or drill damaged the disc(s) within. The liner may have to be replaced in any case.

When a disc title is overstocked at the distributor, or when it is deleted from the catalog with stock remaining, the excess/remaining stock may be defaced in some way and sold to the retailers at a larger than normal wholesale discount. The defacement distinguishes cutouts from ordinary stock. Retailers cannot return cutouts for credit as they can on ordinary slow-moving stock. Cutouts can be returned if defective.

Such warehouse-cleaning usually involves multiple titles, and is often the occasion for special sales at the retail level. I would not expect to pay list price, and would expect to get a greater-than-normal discount on a cutout. Cutouts often provide an opportunity to acquire titles passed up at normal prices.

Sometimes a title would appear as a cutout due to impending re-issue in an improved edition (widescreen, digital sound, restored length, etc.).
I'd expect all unsold "new" LD inventory in North America to now be considered "cut outs".


I don't think this kind of defacement is happening with DVDs, maybe because modern barcoding systems can track the status of a product. But "warehouse-cleaning" would seem to be the most likely source for these sales at The Right Stuf.

Another possibility is retail price cuts for older catalog titles. Pioneer prices the DVDs of some of their old material at $15 retail, making the street price at about $10. Phantom Quest and Hyperdoll are examples.

BTW, the above quote is from
http://www.access-one.com/rjn/laser/legacy/ld17.txt
It might be of interest to LD owners.
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Postby KLin » Sat Apr 05, 2003 11:02 pm

Dangit, I could have saved 60 dollars on the Gasaraki Box Set if I they had done this 5 months ago. :|
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Postby paizuri » Mon Apr 07, 2003 11:41 am

AtomX wrote:I swear TRSI does a new one of these deals every week. I REALLY wanted to do the Nadia one :\ No $$$ though.


Actually, RightStuf DOES have new deals every week. On their website, they're under the Weekly Specials. :D Or you can subscribe to their mailing list to get e-mails about the new specials every week.
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Postby Kusoyaro » Mon Apr 07, 2003 1:39 pm

Awesome...I have half of Gasaraki. It'd be cheaper for me to just order the whole box than to buy the rest of the DVDs.
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