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Originally Posted by tubemonkey
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I have found that if an add-on item has a subscribe and save option, it can ship that way without hitting the qualifying minimum. I had two add-on items I wanted in early September, so I tried putting them both in to see if it'd ship or not. Both shipped, in separate boxes oddly enough, without the total hitting the minimum. So that's another option to try, as long as you aren't in a huge hurry.
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Originally Posted by GA Russell
Not to be a Scrooge, but I just haven't seen anything for myself that has excited me this year.
Am I just in a funk this year, or do you folks feel the same?
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No, the sales have been largely boring for me, too.
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Originally Posted by GA Russell
Two things I have noticed are...
1) The prices of DVD box sets of old TV shows have not come down.
2) The record companies have issued just a small number of new box sets of old ('50s and '60s) jazz records for me.
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I have noticed in general that the TV/movie people vastly,
vastly overvalue their products. They keep upping the prices they want for streaming licenses too, or just flat-out pulling them because they can't get the huge sums they want for them. It's really ridiculous.
The music people are pretty weird about releasing stuff from the 50s & 60s overall, unless it's from the big, popular artists. A good example would be my Christmas playlist. I have tons of vinyl rips of really old albums that have never been re-released. Good ones too, really good ones. But the rights holders can't be bothered to release them.
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Originally Posted by tubemonkey
Soon enough, the primary audience for these shows will be dead and then no one will be interested in buying them.
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Yep, that's the point they'll regret over-pricing everything now. At some point it'll bring in nothing. If they made it cheaper and easier to access now, you'd have new audiences discovering it and wanting to buy it in the future too.