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redbill · #101 Post by **redbill** » Wed Nov 14, 2007 8:05 pm

HistoryProf wrote:DVD Empire still has Quai and Port of Shadows....I ordered this morning from them and they shipped this afternoon. If you buy 3 you get free shipping, and there's a $5 off $35 code floating about....

thanks for the tip. i had ordered all 4 from criteriondvd, they said they all shipped, charged me for all 4. but when i got the package yesterday it said on the shipping slip that Port of Shadows was backordered.

#102 Post by **domino harvey** » Wed Nov 14, 2007 8:11 pm

When this was first announced, DVDEmpire was out of the two Quais, so that they got them back in stock means some distro is still fulfilling orders for these discs. Interesting.

neal · #103 Post by **neal** » Wed Nov 14, 2007 9:07 pm

domino harvey wrote:When this was first announced, DVDEmpire was out of the two Quais, so that they got them back in stock means some distro is still fulfilling orders for these discs. Interesting.

It's only been a week. Is it possible that this new stock was actually ordered from a distributor before the change to OOP status? On a related note, Quai is "On Order" again already at DVDEmpire.

Kinsayder · #104 Post by **Kinsayder** » Wed Nov 14, 2007 10:38 pm

This may not be the best time to ask whether Manon, my favourite Clouzot, might ever get a Criterion release.

arsonfilms · #105 Post by **arsonfilms** » Wed Nov 14, 2007 10:51 pm

I got the two Quais from Amazon before the bumrush to get them was on, and they arrived pretty quickly. Then, when the scramble to buy lowered the price to $21, I was able to get them to credit my account the difference. I'm keeping my DVDPlanet order open just in case, but I was just happy to get them before the prices got outrageous.

sherlockjr · #106 Post by **sherlockjr** » Thu Nov 15, 2007 12:13 am

Thought I'd let you folks know: Despite the message from Amazon regarding 1-3 weeks shipping on Quai, I decided to take my chances and place an order on Saturday. Yesterday (Tuesday) I received confirmation that my order had shipped. This doesn't guarantee that you'll have the same results, but . . .

Chull · #107 Post by **Chull** » Thu Nov 15, 2007 4:30 am

arsonfilms wrote:Then, when the scramble to buy lowered the price to $21, I was able to get them to credit my account the difference.

How did you do this?

arsonfilms · #108 Post by **arsonfilms** » Thu Nov 15, 2007 5:02 am

Chull wrote:
arsonfilms wrote:Then, when the scramble to buy lowered the price to $21, I was able to get them to credit my account the difference.
How did you do this?

When I ordered them late last week, they cost something like $27 each and were still in stock. Now they're around $21 and ship in a few weeks, if at all. If, like me, you ordered (and later received them) when you first heard about them going out of print, you can go to the Help section of the page, go to Pricing and Payment, and then hit the Contact Us button on the left side of the page. You'll want to go to the email tab, and select the order in question, and just nicely explain the situation and ask for the difference to be credited to you. They'll send you a nice email back in a day or two letting you know its been taken care of.

Chull · #109 Post by **Chull** » Thu Nov 15, 2007 2:28 pm

arsonfilms wrote:
Chull wrote:
arsonfilms wrote:Then, when the scramble to buy lowered the price to $21, I was able to get them to credit my account the difference.
How did you do this?
When I ordered them late last week, they cost something like $27 each and were still in stock. Now they're around $21 and ship in a few weeks, if at all. If, like me, you ordered (and later received them) when you first heard about them going out of print, you can go to the Help section of the page, go to Pricing and Payment, and then hit the Contact Us button on the left side of the page. You'll want to go to the email tab, and select the order in question, and just nicely explain the situation and ask for the difference to be credited to you. They'll send you a nice email back in a day or two letting you know its been taken care of.

Groovy, thanks.

Chull · #110 Post by **Chull** » Thu Nov 15, 2007 2:36 pm

Naturally, the price on the one I ordered (Variety Lights) has gone back up. Figures.

TheThe · #111 Post by **TheThe** » Thu Nov 15, 2007 4:40 pm

Hi, my first post

So anyway, I just received confirmation from Amazon that (a), they shipped, and (b), they gave me a $5 refund since the price dropped on 'Port of Shadows' (the one I ordered). Thanks to the original poster for the heads-up.

By the way, I have a question... what's this of a 20% sale? Is that at DVDplanet or where? I can't seem to find any reference to it.

PfR73 · #112 Post by **PfR73** » Thu Nov 15, 2007 6:19 pm

There's a website called deepdiscount.com that has a 20% off sale twice a year. Their prices are already pretty low, and they're even better when you get the sale discount. I save up a chunk of change waiting for each sale. I just got an email confirming all 4 of the OOP DVDs just shipped, so I'm pretty stoked.

davebert · #113 Post by **davebert** » Thu Nov 15, 2007 6:27 pm

And DVD Planet, which usually kicks DeepDiscount's ass (despite being owned by the same parent company). Both sales are going on now, see DVD Trades and Bargains section of the forum for details.

I'd like to think this group of OOP titles is going to get a lot more casual/collector folk interested in these blockbuster titles. Too bad I already parted with my spare copy of Quai just a month or two ago.

denti alligator · Thu Nov 15, 2007 6:30 pm

davebert wrote:Too bad I already parted with my spare copy of Quai just a month or two ago.

TheThe · #115 Post by **TheThe** » Fri Nov 16, 2007 11:57 am

PfR73 wrote:There's a website called deepdiscount.com that has a 20% off sale twice a year...

davebert wrote:And DVD Planet, which usually kicks DeepDiscount's ass...

Thank you very much. I hadn't noticed the 'deals' topic before. I guess it pays to have a look around this forum.

ievenlostmycat · #116 Post by **ievenlostmycat** » Mon Nov 19, 2007 3:09 am

arsonfilms wrote: Then, when the scramble to buy lowered the price to $21, I was able to get them to credit my account the difference.

I don't get it--shouldn't Amazon have been raising the price instead of lowering it if there was a rush to buy?

jbeall · #117 Post by **jbeall** » Mon Nov 19, 2007 3:25 am

TheThe wrote:
PfR73 wrote:There's a website called deepdiscount.com that has a 20% off sale twice a year...

davebert wrote:And DVD Planet, which usually kicks DeepDiscount's ass...
Thank you very much. I hadn't noticed the 'deals' topic before. I guess it pays to have a look around this forum.

The 'deals' topic (among others) doesn't appear on the index unless you're logged in.

arsonfilms · #118 Post by **arsonfilms** » Mon Nov 19, 2007 3:51 am

ievenlostmycat wrote:
arsonfilms wrote: Then, when the scramble to buy lowered the price to $21, I was able to get them to credit my account the difference.
I don't get it--shouldn't Amazon have been raising the price instead of lowering it if there was a rush to buy?

Everyone discounts top sellers. A rush to buy makes something more popular, thus making it a big seller, which in turn makes retailers discount further so they can move more units. Nobody jacks up prices on items going out of print, only items that don't sell well.

Chull · #119 Post by **Chull** » Mon Nov 19, 2007 2:45 pm

These are all listed as being in stock at DVDPlanet again.

TheThe · #120 Post by **TheThe** » Mon Nov 19, 2007 10:41 pm

Chull wrote:These are all listed as being in stock at DVDPlanet again.

Mmm, I wonder if this whole thing was a joke to get us to buy these movies :-k

(Just kidding)

Chull · #121 Post by **Chull** » Tue Nov 20, 2007 1:13 am

TheThe wrote:
Chull wrote:These are all listed as being in stock at DVDPlanet again.
Mmm, I wonder if this whole thing was a joke to get us to buy these movies :-k

(Just kidding)

Even more insidious - because I figured I wouldn't be getting the one I ordered from DVDPlanet, I ordered it from Amazon.com. Looks like I'll have two copies of Variety Lights (thankfully I already had the other three.)

#122 Post by **domino harvey** » Tue Nov 20, 2007 3:18 am

You'll be able to make a profit on these down the road (if you can wait at least a year), I'd stock up if you can manage.

ievenlostmycat · #123 Post by **ievenlostmycat** » Wed Nov 21, 2007 3:51 am

arsonfilms wrote:
ievenlostmycat wrote:
arsonfilms wrote: Then, when the scramble to buy lowered the price to $21, I was able to get them to credit my account the difference.
I don't get it--shouldn't Amazon have been raising the price instead of lowering it if there was a rush to buy?
Everyone discounts top sellers. A rush to buy makes something more popular, thus making it a big seller, which in turn makes retailers discount further so they can move more units. Nobody jacks up prices on items going out of print, only items that don't sell well.

Interesting. This is why I am not in business. Anyway, I can see how that makes sense for big sellers, but why with out of print titles? Demand exceeds supply (potentially).

Chull · #124 Post by **Chull** » Wed Nov 21, 2007 4:12 am

domino harvey wrote:You'll be able to make a profit on these down the road (if you can wait at least a year), I'd stock up if you can manage.

Considering what I've been spending on all of the sales lately, that ain't gonna happen.

Rupert Pupkin · #125 Post by **Rupert Pupkin** » Thu Nov 29, 2007 8:56 am

while we are talking about H-G Clouzot, I just would like to tell that next week in Paris, Le Louvre will open to public the very first projection/theatre of the rushes (only 15 minutes for the moment) of the elusive and unfinished Clouzot's last project movie with Romy Schneider L'enfer/Inferno (Chabrol released a movie later reworking the script with Marin Karmitz).

too bad that the gallery photo which were available here is not available anymore...

in some French newspaper there are some stunning color photo from these rushes, showing the fantasma scenes with Romy Schneider which are amazing... It looks like if Clouzot was going beyond Hitchcock's experimentation to create visual fantasmagora scenes... Sometimes, the use of color and special effects seems precursor to a lot of genre, such as Suspiria's Argento...

I really hope that this will be released one day as bonus on DVD. Could Criterion put his hands on this ????

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