Bummer... Ohio's Xploited Cinema will be closing over the coming months

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Jul 7, 2008 - CDT 5:55 PM

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Sad to hear about this...

The Ohio business that offers world-wide customers those many hard-to-find multi-region DVDs, and all-region import HD-DVDs and Blu-rays, will be phasing out operations over the coming months (read the site's recent announcement below).

The Future of Xploited Cinema... (notice of July 6, 2008 by owner Tony Simonelli)

All good things must come to an end and that time is near for Xploited Cinema! It has been years since we started selling DVDs to the best customers around the world, but we've made a decision to move on. Xploited Cinema will still be around, but we will stop carrying new products and stop stocking catalog titles.

It was a tough decision since through the years everyone here has given 110% of themselves, but it's time to slow down, rest and shift gears to new endeavors. Are we "going out of business"? Not necessarily since we will continue to ship orders in the same efficient manner we always have, but in the short term leading into the long term we will be carrying less new releases and not re-ordering older catalog titles.

Mid July will be the time when you will be noticing no new titles added to the website and older titles taken off the website once we sell out. All current pre-orders will be processed and shipped as normal. Over time you will notice older titles disappearing from the website. We recommend getting what you want now since all titles will not be re-ordered as we run low in stock or sell out.

I would like to thank all of the customers that have stuck around with us since the early 2000s. For years I have corresponded with many of you via emails and have met many of you face to face at conventions. I can wholeheartedly say that we have the best and most loyal customers a business could ever imagine.

As i mentioned before this hasn't been an easy decision since I've given as much as i could to make Xploited Cinema a successful DVD retailing website, but I just can't keep doing this for the rest of my life. We will be around in some capacity for who knows how long dealing with the day in day out activities we have always been doing. The only main change noticed will be the elimination of stocking new releases and older catalog titles. Orders will be processed in the same timely manner as in the past and order and item related questions will be answered promptly.

From the bottom of my heart I would once again like to thank everyone who has been an Xploited Cinema customer through the years!

Tony Simonelli
July 6th, 2008

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bladerunner1

Jul 8, 2008 - CDT 1:52 AM

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I live in Ohio Hendrix..EVERYTHING is closing. But hey...we did it to ourselves. We just sat back in our posh theaters, with our big ol' bags of p-corn, while the "American Dream" got shipped off to sea. So..I can't really shed any tears here over your thread topic. There are FAR more important things to deal with here in Dayton...Like, where I am going to put all of this gear when they come and take my house away?

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Jul 8, 2008 - CDT 8:02 AM

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Sad news indeed. Xploitedcinema was such a great site with some very unique movies.

I swear it happens almost every day now where I hear of a company laying off employees or a business shutting down.

InvisibleBiker

Jul 8, 2008 - CDT 9:36 AM

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The END is near ladies and gents the END is near. Wait I still have'nt seen all that I wanna see. There are things I still wanna try, you know like exotic foods and things. HOLD UP!!!! I have not even bought my new BLU RAY PLAYER the END cannot come yet!!!!!

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tucker_jenkins

Jul 8, 2008 - CDT 9:38 AM

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greed

after the fat pigs have had their fill, there is nothing left for anyone else

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Jul 8, 2008 - CDT 10:39 AM

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So... does anyone know of any alternative sites that have a comparable list of movies?

richiro33

Jul 8, 2008 - CDT 11:27 AM

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greed

after the fat pigs have had their fill, there is nothing left for anyone else

Ignorance is bliss huh?

Skyhawk

Jul 8, 2008 - CDT 3:12 PM

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The END is near ladies and gents the END is near.

Hold your horses ladies and gents. The stock market closed way up today, those oversold financials went up more than 4% just today! BAC alone went up almost 10% today, but is still a no-brainer if you want to double your money in 3 years.

And oil futures have traded lower by almost $10 in the last 2 days, paradoxically on an expectation of decreasing demand due to... err... high oil prices.

Also Bernanke today announced he would bail everyone out if the worst happened. What a great guy, way less stuffy than Greenspan and his "let the market imbalances work themselves out" rhetoric.

The future is bright - at least until tomorrow.

tucker_jenkins

Jul 8, 2008 - CDT 3:48 PM

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lol

more american buisness going out of buisness, not gonna be long now, till the chinese are the big boys

i cant wait

ps. america cant even claim the tallest skyscrapers anymore