Please stop buying multiple copies!

POSTED BY: zidank
UPDATED: Wednesday, March 15, 2006 21:25
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KILLIAN

Tuesday, February 7, 2006 4:11 PM

My boss was just hooked buy our department with firefly and ordered Serinity on pay per view. I am sure that execs track these #'s too. Is anyone getting Serinity via PPV?

SIMONB

Sunday, March 12, 2006 2:27 PM

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Originally posted by AmandaJ:
That is exactly my aim with buying multiple copies, Zidank. I give them as gifts, donations, etc. to people or organizations, to encourage new audiences to take a look. I had been loaning out my personal copy, but I don't like going without.

I have had great luck winning new Browncoats in this way.

Same here - bought (and continue to buy) copies as gifts, plus as instruments of spreading the word and converting new fans. At the end of the day if all studios understand is money, this can't hurt - and it spreads the word.

- Shiny. Let's be bad guys.

GELASSENHEIT

Sunday, March 12, 2006 2:47 PM

converted three people with 2 purchases of the Firefly DVD set, and one purchase of Serenity. That's three more fans. i am thinking the multiple copy thing is a good thing.

Gelassenheit means Serenity

JCW

Tuesday, March 14, 2006 7:42 PM

I was surprised when I was listening to a Firefly/Serenity podcast ('The Signal') where a section of the show was dedicated to getting Firefly back on the air and/or a second Serenity film. They said that three ways to acieve this were to buy several copies of Firefly: the complete series, several copies of Serenity and other Firefly/Serenity merchandise. Don't get me wrong - I'd love to see the return of Mal and co, but I can't afford to buy out all of HMV.

Me and my friend have started converting our mates into Browncoats, though, and I hope they buy their own copies of Firefly and Serenity...

"There's no place, I can be, since I've found Serenity"
- Joss Whedon

COPILOT

Tuesday, March 14, 2006 8:15 PM

So far I've owned two copies of both cause I couldn't live without them. Also I'm about to buy the movie and box set again for my friend cause every household should have a copy and I don't think she has much spare cash. I'll probably end up buying six or seven copies over the course of the year. It's like buying a CD when you know you can get the music for free pirate style cause you love the band.

In short you do the unnecesary when you're in love.

An I carried such a torch

DC4BS

Wednesday, March 15, 2006 2:19 AM

yep.

I have bought 4 boxsets and BDMs.

I kept a set, the other 3 sets went as gifts at x-mas to various people who I knew would love them but who I also knew whould never go out and buy them for themselves...

Oh, I also bought an Australian BDM for myself to get the extra bonus feature stuff. The interview with Joss on disk 2 is way cool.

I made a copy of the boxset disk 1 at reduced resolution/quality and without the director/cast comments audio tracks that I loan out. This protects my original set, encourages the loanees to buy their own set to see what happens next if they like it and I never have to worry if I don't get it back as the copy only cost me 35 cents or so to make.

I even donated a cheap, K-Mart DVD player (about $30 or so) to the ski-house I was a guest at one weekend this winter. I wanted to watch firefly after skiing and they didn't have a player... I started off the houses DVD collection by leaving them the disk 1 copy I happend to have had in my car. With luck, lots of people have seen it since then and said, "Cool, I'll go buy the full set for myself."

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dc4bs

JONESTEIN

Wednesday, March 15, 2006 9:25 PM

I'm sorry, but this is a ridiculous thread.

DON'T buy more copies because YOU can't afford to buy multiple copies?!? Like many of the responders, I buy multiple copies to give as gifts AND to boost DVD sales, and even if I didn't give them away, it's my ruttin money and I'll spend it however I choose.

The more we wave our insolent banners of disposable income, the more the studio/network snots will listen. DVD sales are DVD sales, no matter how you slice 'em...period.

Also, letter writing may not turn the tide, but I doubt it hurts if the letter is polite and not fanatical.

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