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Forums - Sales Discussion - Blu-ray Market Share in US up to 13% Over Previous Week

LOL MATURE on 13 October 2008
Ail said:
Impulsivity said:
Also as to the cost, many big releases are offered with special pricing by big retailers like Frys and Amazon soon after release. I was able to get Iron Man for 24.99 from Amazon, ditto for most other Blu Rays I have bought. Some are even better deals such as the original Rambo (easily one of the 5 best action movies of all time) for 12.99 at Frys. I got Mad Men for just under 30 bucks too for the entire 1st season.

Some vendors do make the effort to make Blu Ray a good value, some don't. I have a personal top price of 25 bucks for a movie after which I just won't buy it, I think that is more or less the norm which is why the prices have gone down to that level (not in retail prices but in the actual asking price at retailers) and not surprisingly sales have gone up. When all Blu Rays are 25 and down and players are 199 or less we will really see the format take off.

 

Tell me about it...

Iron Man was sold out at my Best Buy so I had to buy it at Wall Mart. cost me 5$ more..

Best Buy does 5$ of new releases of Blue Ray and DVD movies the first week. Wall Mart only does that on DVDs....

I said this in the other thread about Iron Man after you said this. 

Around me I couldn't find it anywhere and had to tell store managers they lost my business because they didn't accomendate for the demand. And I mentioned how many other people like me have you lost... I had to pick IM on 2nd week.

 



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Impulsivity on 13 October 2008

I was just going off Amazon mainly. Iron Man, Dark Knight, Indiana Jones...all of them have the blu ray version well above the DVD versions (probably helps that they're about the same price).

The fact that most video stores primarily make bulk buys of DVDs (in the hundreds at some single locations) probably helps inflate those numbers.




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johnsobas on 13 October 2008
Impulsivity said:
I was just going off Amazon mainly. Iron Man, Dark Knight, Indiana Jones...all of them have the blu ray version well above the DVD versions (probably helps that they're about the same price).

The fact that most video stores primarily make bulk buys of DVDs (in the hundreds at some single locations) probably helps inflate those numbers.

Blu-ray and HD-DVD have always been high on amazon, that's nothing new.  I'm  not gonna trust amazon ranking over solid sales figures.  These numbers aren't shipped, they are sold to customers.

 



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Ail on 13 October 2008
LOL MATURE said:
Ail said:
Impulsivity said:
Also as to the cost, many big releases are offered with special pricing by big retailers like Frys and Amazon soon after release. I was able to get Iron Man for 24.99 from Amazon, ditto for most other Blu Rays I have bought. Some are even better deals such as the original Rambo (easily one of the 5 best action movies of all time) for 12.99 at Frys. I got Mad Men for just under 30 bucks too for the entire 1st season.

Some vendors do make the effort to make Blu Ray a good value, some don't. I have a personal top price of 25 bucks for a movie after which I just won't buy it, I think that is more or less the norm which is why the prices have gone down to that level (not in retail prices but in the actual asking price at retailers) and not surprisingly sales have gone up. When all Blu Rays are 25 and down and players are 199 or less we will really see the format take off.

 

Tell me about it...

Iron Man was sold out at my Best Buy so I had to buy it at Wall Mart. cost me 5$ more..

Best Buy does 5$ of new releases of Blue Ray and DVD movies the first week. Wall Mart only does that on DVDs....

I said this in the other thread about Iron Man after you said this. 

Around me I couldn't find it anywhere and had to tell store managers they lost my business because they didn't accomendate for the demand. And I mentioned how many other people like me have you lost... I had to pick IM on 2nd week.

 

 

I know, I asked a Best Buy manager and he told me they would have more next week. To which I answered ' but it won't be 5$ off next week' . He nodded. So I just left the store without purchasing anything and headed to Wall Mart.

I knew it would be more expensive but between getting it for $30 at Wall Mart now or next week when best Buy restock for $30 too the choice was easy....



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