Sunday, April 13, 2008
Member since:
October 2004
October 2004
**It does make me wonder if really good films just happen to get sold much quicker than the average, crap blockbuster or mediocre fare.**
No, it's just that the usual business model for rental houses involves ordering 100 copies of the "Chuck and Larry" or "Dumb Teen Horror Schlock Part 74" of the week, and one or two copies each of most other titles. Thus they are more likely to have extra copies of the crap that makes up the "Top Rentals" each week than they are of something that does less volume.
No, it's just that the usual business model for rental houses involves ordering 100 copies of the "Chuck and Larry" or "Dumb Teen Horror Schlock Part 74" of the week, and one or two copies each of most other titles. Thus they are more likely to have extra copies of the crap that makes up the "Top Rentals" each week than they are of something that does less volume.
Monday, April 14, 2008
Member since:
March 2002
March 2002
I was in Best Buy the other day looking for a Blu-ray copy of "Hairspray." None to be found. I asked the young clerk if they had any on display somewhere else in the store. He checked his computer and said, no, they were all sold out, but, he said, they had one copy on order. "One!" I exclaimed. Yes, he said, only one because that kind of title didn't sell well.
"Didn't sell well," I responded. But it sold out."
What the clerk really meant, I'm sure, was "I'm nineteen years old and I don't like musicals, and since everyone else in the world shares my taste and agrees with me, we don't stock that title."
John
"Didn't sell well," I responded. But it sold out."
What the clerk really meant, I'm sure, was "I'm nineteen years old and I don't like musicals, and since everyone else in the world shares my taste and agrees with me, we don't stock that title."
John
