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Originally Posted by Patrick Sun
This promotion is the reason why we saw a huge differential in BD/HD player sales for one week (something like 85% BD vs. 15% HD in player sales for the 3rd week of January).
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Originally Posted by Douglas Monce
and the right to bare arms.
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"If you're good at something, never do it for free."
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Originally Posted by Paul.S
LOL, Joe.
You think 90% of the time corporate America does what's best for its customers?!? That's as absurd as it is the topic for a whole 'nother thread. I guess these gas prices are somehow in my best interest. |
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Originally Posted by Brent M
You like sleeveless T-shirts, huh?
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Originally Posted by Douglas Monce
Its not absurd at all. Normally whats good for the stock holders is also good for the customer. If the customer isn't happy, the customer will go away and thats not good for the stock holder.
These companies are in the business of making money, and most of the time the way you make money is to make the customer happy. Star Wars made the customer happy, Heaven's Gate didn't. Star Wars took a company that was struggling and gave it the biggest profits it had ever made. Heaven's Gate caused United Artists to be sold to MGM. Doug |
). Sometimes, people do forget that what's ultimately *best* for us (in the long run) may not necessarily be what we *think* is best for us at the moment.Just another amateur learning to paint w/ "the light of the world".
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Originally Posted by JonZ
Yea I looked to see if they were priced down and they werent. Seems they just pulled them off the shelves. I was in there last week and the rack was full.
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| Let me preface this by saying that I have absolutely nothing to back this up other than a feeling, but it seems to me that HD DVD, and BD for that matter, overstock goes to the online vendors to be clearanced. Whatever arrangement the B&M and studios have seems to make more sense for the discs to be sent back. It is probably a matter of B&M shelf space, in that it costs less for the studios to have their HD DVD and BD overstock sit in Amazon's warehouse than it does to sit on Circuit City's shelves. |
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| When I was at Ultimate Electronics asking about HD, I jokingly said "You guys still sell these?", and he replied "no, we just display these." He then told me their store hasn't sold an HD-DVD player for months. |
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Originally Posted by Dave Moritz
So has there been any news when we will see new release information for the rest of the year regarding Universal HD releases ???
It just seems that we should have heard something by now? |
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Originally Posted by Shad R
When I was at Ultimate Electronics asking about HD, I jokingly said "You guys still sell these?", and he replied "no, we just display these."
He then told me their store hasn't sold an HD-DVD player for months. |
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Originally Posted by Shad R
When I was at Ultimate Electronics asking about HD
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You mean people actually still shop at Ultimate Electronics??? |
I prefer to buy from a store vs internet because IMHO it is easier to deal with warranty issues. While it is nice to save money online by the time you pay for shipping you really do not save much, in most cases. Then you have to worry about a online retailer not actually being a autorized dealer, that can come back to bite you.
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And I do believe it's a fairly effective way to gain market penetration (and no less/worse than Toshiba's loss leader pricing) too.Just another amateur learning to paint w/ "the light of the world".
