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Skriven 2007-08-01 11:07:53 av Amy Guskin (2919.babylon5)
     Kommentar till en text av rec.arts.sf.tv.babylon5.moderated
Ärende: Re: Reports from Comic-Con
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>> On Wed, 1 Aug 2007 03:49:14 -0400, Chris wrote
(in article <pelzo63-14669D.00485001082007@news.west.earthlink.net>):

> In article <0001HW.C2D5610B013F34B9F0182648@news.verizon.net>,
>  Amy Guskin <aisling@fjordstone.com> wrote:
> 
>> She knew.  I think her point was, what's a better idea: to not pre-order 
>> and 
>> (by some leap of logic) risk jeopardizing future projects, or do what 
>> _you're_ doing, and order piles of them in advance.  Frankly, I can't 
>> afford 
>> more than one of each DVD I own, so that's not an option for me.  And I'm 
>> sure that _actual_ sales mean more to them than pre-sales, anyway, because 
>> as 
>> Jan so ably pointed out, pre-sales aren't real money, anyway.  So by that 
>> logic, it really doesn't matter if I choose to no longer pre-order.
> 
> WB doesn't directly care how many leave store shelves, they only care 
> how many they send to the stores. 
> 
> pre-sales tell stores how many they themselves have to buy from the 
> distributor(WB). lots of pre-sales tells a retailer to order lots of 
> copies on opening day.  if WB sells 1 million of something, that means 
> they SHIPPED to STORES 1 million of something.  this is why you 
> sometimes see massive flops still getting huge sales numbers, sometimes 
> the distributor has to take a bath and buy back overstock, but usually 
> they subsidize the retailers to allow them to put them in the bargain 
> bin. 
> 
> and as i said in the post no one seems to dare reply to(because it 
> doesn't bash WB, which is all anyone ever wants to do in this group), 
> this was most likely best buy's call to pay extra to WB to get this 
> exclusive mini-comic.  <<

Sorry I didn't reply -- it had nothing to do with not _daring_; I simply 
didn't have anything to say to you -- and, fyi, I know many fine people 
working at Warner Bros. in departments other than Home Video -- but for the 
record, I let Amazon know _exactly_ why I was returning the copy I'd 
pre-ordered more than four months ago and incessantly followed up on about 
the shipping date with them.  Since there was no appropriate option in the 
pull-down menu in the returns process, I called them up directly about it, 
and also wrote the reason _on my return box_.  I wanted to be sure they knew 
_exactly_ why I didn't want their copy anymore.  And if they offer a premium 
next time around, I'll buy from them.  But I'm still not rushing to order 
four months in advance ever again.  Who knows what can happen in the 
intervening time, as we've seen this time around?

>> and apparently i'm not a very dedicated loyal babylon 5 fan despite what 
> my collection of B5 stuff says because i decided to go to the store to 
> buy it instead of pre-ordering. 
> 
> and to all those who have implied that the previous statement is true, 
> you can all fark off. no, really.  <<

I never said, or implied, that all people who don't pre-order are lame-ass 
fans who can't be bothered or _anything_ like that; the point was, and still 
_is_, that people who put down their money (and don't split hairs on this, 
Jan; for people who work for a living, pre-ordering _is_ putting down their 
money), that the person who pre-orders a DVD more than four months before it 
is available is, on the whole, a more obsessive, crazy, fanatical, devoted 
fan than _on average_, the people who walk into a store to buy something 
after it's been released.  I'm _sure_ there are plenty of obsessive crazy 
fans who walked into Best Buy yesterday to buy their only copy.  But I am 
equally certain that _no one_ who is a casual fan pre-ordered four months in 
advance; which is why I think a bonus would have been, overall, more 
appreciated by _that_ crowd.

Amy
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