Warner Bros store is breaking its own release dates? (1 Viewer)

[Nick Martin]

It seems that people who tend to order DVDs and BDs from the official Warner Bros. online DVD store have already begun receiving copies of The Dark Knight (Those lucky sons of...) and other titles ordered with it in the mail.

Isn't that against some kind of agreement or terms I can't put a name to, other than 'street date violation'?

 

[Robert Crawford]

It's good for us the consumers so I won't complain about it.






Crawdaddy

 

[Josh Steinberg]

Hmm, I wonder if I should go order mine now...

 

[Nick Martin]

Only some consumers. I work in a 'big box' store and it's not like we have first dibs.

 

[Robert Crawford]

Well that leaves 90% of consumers who don't work in a "big box" store so we're happy with any retailer that breaks street date.

 

[Nick Martin]

No, what I am saying is that very few people are benefiting from this, and it's not as though retailers themselves are benefiting either. This is Warner itself breaking its own date for its own online store, not Amazon or Best Buy or Walmart or whatever online/B&M store.

Therefore, anyone who orders directly from Warner will get titles early and no one else will, so that's not 90% of people buying.

 

[Josh Steinberg]

Has this been happening with other Warner titles, or just The Dark Knight? Because it could easily be that whenever they set up the product record for their online store that someone accidentally put in that it was currently available instead of a preorder, so the system processed it that way.

 

[Tim Tucker]

I heard that some people (not me, unfortunately) received Doctor Who: The Brain of Morbius from Warner weeks before release date.

 

[RickER]

Its better than getting it 3 weeks after street date.

I got Beetlejuice 2 weeks early from Warner...just so i get it, i really dont care if its early or late.

 

[cafink]

Beetlejuice 2?

 

[Robert Crawford]

It's good for the consumers that receive the product which is my contention.





Crawdaddy

 

[Eric Peterson]

Isn't the street date essentially a handshake agreement between retailers?

If so, I'm not sure that WB is doing anything wrong. They are the manufacturer and should be able to sell whenever they want.

This is a relatively unique situation where the manufacturer and retailer are one in the same.

 

[RickER]

It would suck...

Beetlejuice, came two weeks early!


I have not ordered anything from Warner for a few months. Its like i got everything they had!?
Well...everything i wanted!

 

[ChadMcCallum]

I've read about them breaking street date on some Doctor Who dvds by a few weeks or in some cases a month or more.

 

[ahollis]

You can walk into any small DVD store in New York and find the new releases two to three weeks ahead of the release date. I used to do that until I decided it was not worth the extra five dollars and now wait out Best Buy or Amazon.