Star Trek Price Drop

Deep Discount DVD? Amazon.com? While I'm not debating the authenticity of those sites, how many of us here shop at the brick and mortar stores of Target, Best Buy, Circuit City and other discount retailers?

Not one of these retailers are registering price drops on these sets. SInce I haven't seen any official announcement from TV Shows on DVD, Paramount or Star Trek.com I'm not holding my breath that this is going to be a widespread thing. With Warner Brothers, Universal, Sony/MGM all having their sales while promoting their DVD lines I'm thinking that this is Paramount's thing in order to try and snag more profits on their Star Trek DVD sets.

What they need to do is announce a permament price drop on all of their sets and get more in line with what other TV SHows on DVD sets are selling at. Currently, I've been passing over on the Star Trek DVD sets mainly because of the price tags attached to their sets and when an average DVD set is selling at an average of $45 Paramount isn't moving their sets as fast as they should be.

All in all, I think this is only a temporary thing which will go the way of the wind soon enough. Paramount isn't going to want to lose that premium profit on their DVD sets for too long.

Finally! This is great news. Those first three TNG seasons are very tempting. If they'd extend this to Voyager, I'd buy a set for sure.

I wonder if this will affect the prices on eBay after a while. $50-$60 is about what I paid for some of the Voyager sets I got on there. If those prices were to split in half as well...

at deepdiscount the complete 7 season sets of each is being lowered to 314.59 which is about 45 a season

I'm afraid you are incorrect, at least as far as my Canadian retailers are concerned. Bestbuy.ca and Futureshop.ca both have the first three seasons of TNG and DS9 lowered to $78.99 CDN, while the rest remain at their usual price. There is no mention whatsoever of this being a temporary sale, so I'm inclined to believe that this price drop is permanent and will soon filter down through the other seasons. Which is great because I want to buy every single Star Trek season there is, but not at the prices they're at. Paramount must think that because someone likes Star Trek they have an unlimited supply of money or something...

Still too high, IMO. I guess I'm just older and wiser and poorer, because I once paid $200 for a limited edition (1,000 copies) of the 25th Anniversary movie set on VHS (the one in the red box with the certificate signed by Shatner). These days, I'm just not gonna plunk down $50/season.

50 bucks a season is more reasonable (not completly, mind you - but getting there). Pity that I only have one more set to purchase until the series is dead to me - the animated series. Everything made after Star Trek VI I wont touch with a 10 meter cattle prod.

Quote"Not one of these retailers are registering price drops on these sets. SInce I haven't seen any official announcement from TV Shows on DVD, Paramount or Star Trek.com I'm not holding my breath that this is going to be a widespread thing. With Warner Brothers, Universal, Sony/MGM all having their sales while promoting their DVD lines I'm thinking that this is Paramount's thing in order to try and snag more profits on their Star Trek DVD sets."

I was in Tower Records in Lincoln Center in New York City today. I saw ST Next Generation sets. Seasons 1,2, and 3 had stickers with a regular selling price of $69.99 .
Seasons 4,5,6, and 7 had stickers with 139.99 as the regular price. There were no signs advertising the new lower prices. They were just in the TV Section of the DVD section mixed together.

CircuitCity.com is showing $69.99 on DS9 Seasons 1-3 and TNG Seasons 1-3 as of right now so this indeed looks to be a more perminate drop. Perhaps Paramount has realized that they can't charge a PREMIUM price for them and still expect huge sales.

Or maybe they're unloading stock before prepping to release Blu-Ray or HD-DVD versions on only one or two discs per season and start the leeching cycle all over again.

I believe the Star Trek series (aside from the original and "Enterprise") can't get "real" hi-def transfers (or at least wouldn't gain anything from them) since I believe they were all mastered on video for effects work or something like that. So the only real benefit of the new formats will be the series taking up less shelf space - which, honestly is a rather attractive proposition considering the huge amount of space the two of these series that I want would entail in the DVD format.

I personally *sarcasm on* can't wait *sarcasm off* for that to start happening with every single one of the shows I have on disc. It will free up some room, sure, but it's going to be the biggest B**** in the world.

What about TOS?? Any reductions on the season sets yet??

Not yet... so far as far as I been able to find it is only The Next Generation and Deep Space Nine

About time!

Hopefully this means that the animated series won't be overpriced when it's released.

BestBuy.com has season 1 of TNG for $69.99 and season 4 for ~$90 and the rest are $108. I didn't check DS9.

In other words, they seem to be re-pricing the oldest (in terms of DVD release) stuff first. I wouldn't expect the original series to get a price drop anytime soon unless they discover the new pricing makes them a lot of money.

I think it's a matter of pricing the first few seasons to get new buyers hooked, then hopefully getting them to buy the later seasons at a premium price. TOS can't do that because they don't have enough seasons.

Seems to me they are following what Fox is going to do with X-Files... without the repackage.

Maybe they figured since X-Files was finally officially coming down (I know Amazon has had pretty decent prices on it for a while, but B&M prices were still over $100 a season)), now is the time for better priced Trek as well.

Doesn't make sense to me to lower the first few and never lower the others... I think they will just do it in waves.

Check BestBuy next week for Enterprise 1-3...

Those quoted prices are quite incorrect. When Best Buy has a price listed on their site, if it's not on sale Best Buy will have the item listed as "Our Price." If it's on sale it will say "Our Price" with the indicator "On Sale" with a checkmark indicator next to it underneath the "ADD TO CART" button tab.

I walked into the local Best Buy and they DO NOT have the sale going on through their retail stores. The prices all range from either $99.99 to $107.99. Their website lists their sets at the following prices:

Star Trek: The Next Generation Season 1: 69.99 (Permanent Price Drop)
Star Trek: The Next Generation Season 2: 107.99 (On Sale)
Star Trek: The Next Generation Season 3: 107.99 (On Sale)
Star Trek: The Next Generation Season 4: 91.99 (On Sale)
Star Trek: The Next Generation Season 5: 107.99 (On Sale)
Star Trek: The Next Generation Season 6: 107.99 (On Sale)
Star Trek: The Next Generation Season 7: 107.99 (On Sale)

Star Trek: Deep Space Nine Season Season 1: $85.59 (On Sale)
Star Trek: Deep Space Nine Season Season 2: $85.59 (On Sale)
Star Trek: Deep Space Nine Season Season 3: $85.59 (On Sale)
Star Trek: Deep Space Nine Season Season 4: $85.59 (On Sale)
Star Trek: Deep Space Nine Season Season 5: $85.59 (On Sale)
Star Trek: Deep Space Nine Season Season 6: $85.59 (On Sale)
Star Trek: Deep Space Nine Season Season 7: $85.59 (On Sale)

Star Trek: Voyager Season 1: $85.59 (On Sale)
Star Trek: Voyager Season 2: $85.59 (On Sale)
Star Trek: Voyager Season 3: $85.59 (On Sale)
Star Trek: Voyager Season 4: $85.59 (On Sale)
Star Trek: Voyager Season 5: $79.99 (On Sale)
Star Trek: Voyager Season 6: $79.99 (On Sale)
Star Trek: Voyager Season 7: $79.99 (On Sale)

Star Trek: Enterprise Season 1: $85.59 (On Sale)
Star Trek: Enterprise Season 2: $85.59 (On Sale)
Star Trek: Enterprise Season 3: $85.59 (On Sale)
Star Trek: Enterprise Season 4: $85.59 (On Sale)

These are the prices that are currently listed on the Best Buy website. Only the first season of TNG has siffered a permenent price drop.

Awesome, I've been waiting for a good price drop before I consider investing in these. $100 a pop was just way too much for my budget (still in college).

I won't be able to dig up this much money until summer, but by then there should be good deals for 7 season sets. ($250ish I'm hoping)

Those prices are just temporary though. Expect them to jump back oup to $100 or more. Paramount isn't going to drop the prices on their cash cow ... can we say MOOOOOOOO?

I'm curious about why TOS seems like it's immune to price-dropping among the "Star Trek" series. Anyone have a theory? As it looks now, I'll have to wait for DD's 20% off summer sale before getting this one.

Anybody notice DDD has season 1 thru 3 listed as being re-released Jan. 31, 2006 and DVDEmpire have season 1 listed as being re-released Jan. 31, 2006 and season 2 and 3 instock at the old price?

Maybe there's something different about seasons 1 thru 3 prompting a lower price. I said maybe.

Well, you guys. It seems that the Best Buy prices on the Star Trek TV Series were a temporary thing. The TNG prices jumped back up to $134.99, and all of the other shows jumped back up to $107.99. The only sets that are on sale are the Star Trek Enterprise sets and only the "First Three Seasons of Enterprise" are on sale this week from Best Buy at $44.95 plus Reward Zone members get a bonus 15,000 points for the purchase of any one of these sets.

My guess is that Best Buy had a lot of excess stock of these and worked with Paramount to unload them. I've seen reports on other boards of people getting the Best Buy bonus discs from price-dropped sets ordered at other retailers. Makes a lot of sense if you consider that Best Buy never really had great prices on these sets and doesn't want a lot of dead inventory hanging around.

At the same time, Paramount gets some valuable market data on how consumers react to the lower price points.

I took advantage of this to get Enterprise seasons 2 and 3 today to complete the mega-set. Either cause for celebration or verification of full membership in the geek club - not sure which.

Christopher, a true geek would already own them, having obtained them on their release dates, with little regard to the price. So your full membership in the geek club has been denied.

Yeah, I noticed that too. But I went ahead and ordered season one of TNG from DDD and it shipped anyways. I don't know why they have those pre-release dates listed, but don't feel you have to wait to cash in on this deal, because I already received my set. (I opted for overnight delivery and got it basically the next day, so I ended up paying a bit more. But what can I say, when I want something I want something. )

Really tempting...like many people, I haven't been able to afford all the seasons of Enterprise. But knowing that high def versions will be coming in awhile makes me wonder if this would be a waste to buy them now.

Too bad this sale doesn't include season four of Enterprise. That's the one I want the most - the best season! (IMO)

Thx for the info because I was waiting.

Ditto, but I went ahead and picked up Season 3 yesterday. I never watched it, but the fact it has a season long story arc was enough to intrigue me. It didn't hurt that RZ members get a ton of points for buying, and I had $100 worth of RZ certificates to burn.