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Skriven 2007-08-02 03:08:36 av Mac Breck (3038.babylon5)
     Kommentar till en text av rec.arts.sf.tv.babylon5.moderated
Ärende: Re: Reports from Comic-Con
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"Amy Guskin" <aisling@fjordstone.com> wrote in message
news:0001HW.C2D63046016FC666F0182648@news.verizon.net...
> >> On Wed, 1 Aug 2007 08:27:39 -0400, Mac Breck wrote
> (in article <46b07cc5$0$25585$ecde5a14@news.coretel.net>):
>
> > "Amy Guskin" <aisling@fjordstone.com> wrote in message
> > news:0001HW.C2D5DBDA015BFD23F0182648@news.verizon.net...
> >>>> On Tue, 31 Jul 2007 23:02:02 -0400, Mac Breck wrote
> >> (in article <46aff82e$0$25585$ecde5a14@news.coretel.net>):
> >>
> >>> <kruegerb76@hotmail.com> wrote in message
> >>> news:1185936707.428870.77450@l70g2000hse.googlegroups.com...
> >>>> Posted by Amy:
> >>>>> 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.
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>> Posted by Mac:
> >>>> I'm not so sure about that.  Something shooting to near the top
of
> >>>> Amazon's list for pre-orders on the first day that pre-ordering
is
> >>>> possible, and then finishing strong, pre-order-wise the day
before
> >>>> the
> >>>> street date, HAS to be encouraging for the studio and the online
> >>>> retailer.
> >>>>
> >>>> OTOH, no pre-orders at online retailers followed by everybody
> > buying
> >>>> their discs locally at Best Buy and other local retailers when
Best
> >>>> Buy
> >>>> runs out of their six copies per store, could be a nailbiter for
> > the
> >>>> studio and make them nervous about backing future episodes.
> >>>> ____________________________________________________________
> >>>> ____________________________________________________________
> >>>>
> >>>> It doesn't appear that Warner Brothers is concerned with that at
> > all.
> >>>> So I won't be, either.
> >>>>
> >>>> I'd say that's fair enough.  I can wait to see what specials pop
up
> > at
> >>>> the last minute, and if experience tells me this is quite
possible,
> >>>> then I'll respond accordingly.
> >>>>
> >>>> I'm sure WB's will manage quite nicely without my help.  :)
> >>>
> >>> Some people here seem to have PhDs in making mountains out of
> > molehills.
> >>> You're acting like my cousin Jim, who's a 70 year old cranky,
> >>> pain-in-the-butt baby, and trust me, that's not good. <<
> >>
> >> No need to insult posters here when their feelings are as valid as
> > yours.
> >> You've been known to be a bit cranky from time to time, yourself.
> >
> > It's just that all this wailing and gnashing of teeth, and returning
> > stuff because the pre-ordered discs contain no comic even though no
> > comic was promised when the pre-orders were filed, seems awfully
petty
> > (narrow in ideas or interests, mean-spitited, spiteful) to me.  It
> > REALLY does.  It's almost as if some enjoy complaining and making a
> > fuss.  It's got to have a negative connotation to Amazon, and look
bad
> > for B5:TLT. <<
>
> Yeah, it's kind of like going on and on and on about having more
episodes of
> a show that got cancelled, when you were never _promised_ any specific
number
> of episodes.  You never _are_, with the television industry.  No, I
certainly
> can't imagine someone getting upset about wanting a feeling of
completion
> with regard to a fictional universe that means a lot to them, can you?

Poor attempt at deflection.  There is no valid comparison here.  The
comic merely goes into more detail about something that was said in
Story #2.  It is not necessary for completion of the story.

And why is it that virtually every time someone feels the need to
disagree with me, they try to find whatever way they can to invoke
Crusade?



> >> That's what this is, spite.  The DVDs are being returned out
> > of spite, and in your righteous indignation, you don't care what the
> > effects are. <<
>
> 100% wrong.  If it were spite, I wouldn't have bought another copy.

So that is the only way spite can be expressed, eh?  Wrong.  It can be
expressed by wanting to log a return because Amazon didn't include an
extra that they never said they'd include.


>  Spite is
> "Screw WB and the horse they rode in on, I'll never buy anything of
theirs
> again."  Way to be overly dramatic, Mac.

You're the only one here being overly dramatic.



>  Who's wailing and gnashing teeth _now_?

The ones who are complaining about WB not including the comic in their
pre-ordered DVD.



-- 
Mac Breck (KoshN)
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