Serenity DVD rental check-up.

POSTED BY: jonathan
UPDATED: Sunday, January 8, 2006 16:43
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UNSARDONIC

Thursday, January 5, 2006 5:24 AM

Quote:
Originally posted by Omelet:
I suggest we go to Blockbuster at night and secretly place every Firefly-related object front and center for everyone to see.

YOU, my dear egg-concoction are some sort of demented GEEENius...

All Browncoats should reshelve all those video stores "or your friends will think you're stupid, inbred stacks of meat"

hehhehheh

OMELET

Saturday, January 7, 2006 12:32 AM

Quote:
Originally posted by Unsardonic:
Quote:
Originally posted by Omelet:
I suggest we go to Blockbuster at night and secretly place every Firefly-related object front and center for everyone to see.

YOU, my dear egg-concoction are some sort of demented GEEENius...
hehhehheh

Why thank you very much. I am kinda sneaky and evil, aren't I.

Jayne: Are you saying River's a witch?
Wash: Yes, Jayne, she's a witch. She's had congress with the Beast.
Jayne: She's in Congress?
Wash: How did your brain even learn human speech? I'm just so curious!

UNSARDONIC

Saturday, January 7, 2006 5:57 AM

Quote:
Originally posted by Omelet:
I am kinda sneaky and evil, aren't I.

HAHHAHHAH!!!

I just read your profile... between that & your reply, you just made me laugh so hard, I can't even tall ya...

Make me LAUGH, dudes, LAUGH

..."LAUGH," I said... "or your friends will think you're stupid, inbred stack of meat."

OMELET

Saturday, January 7, 2006 6:00 AM

Quote:
Originally posted by Unsardonic:
Quote:
Originally posted by Omelet:
I am kinda sneaky and evil, aren't I.

HAHHAHHAH!!!

I just read your profile... between that & your reply, you just made me laugh so hard, I can't even tall ya...

Make me LAUGH, dudes, LAUGH ..."LAUGH," I said... "or your friends will think you're stupid, inbred stack of meat."

I'm glad to have brightened your day.

Jayne: Are you saying River's a witch?
Wash: Yes, Jayne, she's a witch. She's had congress with the Beast.
Jayne: She's in Congress?
Wash: How did your brain even learn human speech? I'm just so curious!

NOSADSEVEN

Saturday, January 7, 2006 6:34 AM

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Originally posted by DonCoat:
Maybe it's evidence that the Serenity DVD is selling so well, they can't make them fast enough -- so they don't have enough available to fulfill the rental store orders.

Yeah, unfortunately I remember reading something about Blockbuster in particular having some kind of contract issue that needed to be worked out with Universal that resulted in all of their Uni. titles being of relatively limited supply. I can only hope that they keep the few copies they have prominent over a long period.

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MIMA

Saturday, January 7, 2006 8:07 PM

What gets stuffed in people's faces= popular.

ex: recording studios paying radio to play tunes that suck until they hit the top 10.

blockbuster not stocking a lot of serenity= bad.

I took my firefly and serenity to a new years party of 16 people. 2 had heard of firefly. none had watched the dvd. none had seen the movie. they played the first ep and (while mingling) everyone said they liked it, would go get it/rent it. but NONE of them even knew about the movie. never heard of it, missed it when it was out, never saw ads, trailers, ANYTHING. this is 16 30somethings who like gaming and movies.

on dec 21, day after opening day: i go to a b&n and a borders. The b&n says "oh we've sold out of serenity." i'm like, "WOOO HOOOO!" How many was that and when were they restocking? They had got in 4!!!! copies and were going to get 4!!!! more the next week.
4! where's the glory of being sold out in that? i go to borders: how's it selling? not too well. they have copies everywhere, on gazillions of endcaps, because the manager is a huge fan. he ordered 100 copies. sold 20.

quite frankly, marketing is SOOO important, and i think our bdm bombed in that aspect. move those dvd's to front and center, omelet, and i will too!

JERRYT

Saturday, January 7, 2006 8:23 PM

Well the good news, I guess at my local BB, is that they went from having zero copies to one copy!
It wasn't rented, but it's always easier to rent a title if they have at least a shelf's worth. That way people rent based on the; oh there are quite a few of these, might be worth a try.
Guess I'm in one of those areas where Sci-Fi isn't that big a draw.

JerryT
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"I'll be in my bunk"

DONCOAT

Sunday, January 8, 2006 4:43 PM

Here's a thought, for those who can afford it: rent Serenity, then drop it back in the return box as you leave the store.

It counts as a rental but doesn't prevent it from being re-rented to a potential new Browncoat as soon as the staff restocks the shelves.

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