04-09-2008, 08:47 PM
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Re: HTF DVD REVIEW: There Will Be Blood: 2-Disc Collector's Edition
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| Why should the price be lower just because they're using more environmentally friendly packaging? |
In theory it shouldn't, but I have a hard time believing that cheap printed cardboard is more expensive than a full plastic case. Plastic prices are through the roof these days with the price of oil. And we're both assuming that the reasons for this package are environmental in nature (which is assuming a lot from a major company). The only other reason is to try and gouge the consumer (far more likely).
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| I haven't seen this film in stores priced any differently than standard new releases; |
I don't know what titles you buy or where you shop, but it appears to me that you are being ripped off then. I buy at least 20 titles per month (Granted many are classic titles), but I haven't paid more than $20 for any single movie in nearly a year and that was for the super-duper Criterion edition of "Mr. Arkadin". Aside from that, I cannot recall any other title that I've had even remote interest in being advertised for more than $19.99. I haven't seen this particular title priced less than $23 anywhere that I've looked which is pretty high for a single movie with very few extras. One of the only reasons that I endulged in the two disc set was because the packaging on the single disc edition was even shitier.
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| It doesn't appear that they've raised the pricing because of the packaging. |
See my above comment. If you are routinely paying $23 for DVDs then I think you need to shop around more.
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| And if anything, environmentally friendly/green packaging should raise the price, not lower it. everything about the packaging is more expensive, from the cost of materials to the fact that these non-standard cases need to be packed by hand instead of by machine. |
You have some fair points, but the only one that I buy 100% is the hand insertion. To that point though, it's not like they're paying college graduates to stuff these. In fact, I'd highly doubt that they're even US citizens, that is assuming that these are even assembled in the US.
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| I wouldn't mind paying an extra dollar or two if it meant that the environment would be better off with each purchase, but that doesn't seem to be the case here (that is, being charged extra for packaging). I love good packaging, don't get me wrong, but I don't think it has to be an amaray to be considered good, and I like the "Inconvenient Truth" case - both in how it looks and the thought that was put into it. |
I don't question anything that you say here except for your opinion that this is good packaging. I've seen some other cardboard packaging that did not nearly give me this knee-jerk reaction, but this is just plain bad. The artwork is OK, but nothing that I would be tempted to put on display or show-off and everytime that I take the disc in or out, I'm going to be scared that I'm destroying the discs. I shouldn't have to worry about that when I'm paying $23.
This is an incredible movie, but in my opinion the package is crap today, and it will be crap tomorrow and next week.
Of the nearly 1500 titles that are in my collection, this is the first one that I'm 100% planning on re-packaging.
"Shoot a few scenes out of focus. I want to win the foreign film award."
Billy Wilder
"This business has come a long way in the last 30 years, but why should I depress you"
I.A.L. Diamond on the Movie Business (1986)
Last edited by Eric Peterson : 04-09-2008 at 08:51 PM.
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