Tales from my trip to Blockbuster

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UPDATED: Saturday, December 31, 2005 01:09
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DANIELFYRE

Friday, December 30, 2005 4:37 AM

I went to a local FYE in the mall closest to my house and checked out what they had as far as Serenity was concered. They had one widescreen and 2 full left. I don't know how many they bought, but at any rate this is where I went to go buy my box set. I went one week they had 1 left and decided to get it the next day, but when I came back it was sold. Two days later I came back and they had 3. I bought my one and came back again the next day to find them already sold out. Given that's only 3 in one day but I mean even so it was so quick. I'm just happy to see the series doing well around here. I also went to a local best buy to find no widescreen left and 2 full screens so that also made me pretty happy. I live in southern MA in not such a big city but still its doin fair around here at least..

-Dan

Ain't that just shiny?

KWICKO

Friday, December 30, 2005 5:10 AM

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Originally posted by Chindi:
Ok .. but I suspect that MANY rentals will turn into sales.. when the renter sees how GOOD Serenity is.. they will want to own their own copy...
so yes.. laugh evilly all you want.. our plan is working!!!

Chindi

Agreed. And I can't help but think that the people who already love Serenity & Firefly *aren't* the ones who are renting it - that means we're getting NEW Browncoats recruited every day! (I myself am a "new" Browncoat, having only been turned on to Firefly about six months ago)

I already posted it in another thread, but I'll recap here: I was at Blockbuster (or what I usually refer to as "Lackluster Video") tonight picking up a couple flicks, and looked to see if Serenity was in stock. Just... you know... out of curiosity, since I of course already bought my own copy when it hit the stores... Anyway, they had 12 slots for Serenity, and all were empty. :)

I can't help but think that there are a good nine or ten future Browncoats out there right now, just from exposure to those 12 copies of the BDM. That's high optimism on my part, I'm sure, but I live in a big shiny world. :) Every convert we get from a DVD rental just *might* be a future Firefly box set buyer. One can only hope...

I've loaned out my Firefly DVDs a couple times now. Both times, they came back with the people saying how much they loved the show, how they wished they'd heard of it before, and that they wished it had never been cancelled. When I told them there was more, and then informed them of the Big Damn Movie, they got *giddy* about it. If they haven't bought it yet, they're definitely going to at least rent it. Now all I've got to do is convince them to buy their own Firefly DVDs and loan them out to other friends and family. Can't stop the signal!

Mike

Everything goes somewhere. And I go everywhere.

JERRYT

Friday, December 30, 2005 3:32 PM

The Blockbuster near me didn't have any serentiy for rent at all!!

I asked the cash register guy why they didn't have the movie and just got the "deer in the headlights look". Pathetic!

JerryT
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CAUSAL

Saturday, December 31, 2005 1:09 AM

Quote:
Originally posted by Chindi:
Ok Ok call me delusional (Hi Delusional, nice to meetcha) .. but I suspect that MANY rentals will turn into sales.. when the renter sees how GOOD Serenity is.. they will want to own their own copy...
so yes.. laugh evilly all you want.. our plan is working!!!

Delusional! Delusional! OK, now that that's out of my system.

Went to BB tonight, in my college town of 50,000 people. They have a whole SECTION of Serenity, every single shelf, all but one rented. Like so many others, I just can't stop thinking about all the future Browncoats out there watching the BDM right now (except that one couple making out--they've got other things on their minds).

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