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Try DVDPriceSearch. They have one vendor for new with the price @ $98.00. They also have Amazon used for $150.00, which is odd.
Yikes. That's still more than I'm willing to pay for them, for lo, I am poor, and it's not like my mother is DYING to have them. But I'm bummed, because I knew she loved the show, and she'd really appreciate the gift. But I don't really have a spare hundred dollars lying around to spend on her, no matter how much I love her. Sorry, Mom.
Kate, I can take a look at Newbury's for you if you like. I've seen copies there, although I have no idea what they're charging for them.
DX, would you really? That would be great! Thank you. I was planning on making them a joint gift with my brother, so I'm willing to pay as much as $60 for them.
Ok then, I'll take a look.
I want to get the My So-Called Life DVDs for my mother for Christmas, but when I checked Amazon, they only had them used, starting at $229!! Didn't they just come out last year, for a reasonable price? What happened?
It was a limited release. Not very many copies were produced, so now it's almost out of print.
I'm still wondering about the DVD/VHS differential pricing -- were VHS cassettes so expensive because of the cost of production? And DVDs avoided that initial high charge to rental because it's just cheaper media?
That's something crying out for a higher-priced re-release. One wonders whether manufacturers are smart enough to consult the used-item price index to decide their publishing strategies.
(There was a thing about OOP book demand on the radio this morning, and what furry little executive would fail to visit marketing research that has already been done for him! )
But enough about that. I just wanted to read more slagging of Oliver Stone, because I still haven't seen a movie of his that has made me swoon the way his fans seem to swoon. I am also kind of tired of getting to know a director's hangups so intimately.
It was a limited release. Not very many copies were produced, so now it's almost out of print.
Dammit. I really wish I'd known that at the time.
I liked Platoon a lot. Some of his other '80s movies I liked but they also annoyed me. Natural Born Killers I also liked a lot, but it annoyed me a lot so I haven't seen it since.
I'm still wondering about the DVD/VHS differential pricing -- were VHS cassettes so expensive because of the cost of production? And DVDs avoided that initial high charge to rental because it's just cheaper media?
I think that for small runs of VHS, they are expensive to produce. I know that you can still find non-fiction video put out by small companies that cost $100's of dollars for one tape. I believe that the initial cost of printing one DVD is more expensive than creating one VHS, but then the price of multiple copies is way cheaper.