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Noiradelic wrote: No, only these are available directly from Amazon:

Most of the others are being sold by rightpricedvd. If it's lower tier and the price isn't $26.99, then it's not Amazon.

It doesn't really matter at this point, but just because rightpricedvd is showing up on the main screen does NOT mean that amazon isn't selling it. If you click on "New" and scroll down, you will see that Amazon.com is, in fact, still selling almost everything directly. In fact, they now have Alphaville listed as in stock as well.

The way amazon currently works is that they list the lowest-priced, new DVD that Amazon will fulfill on the main page, even if Amazon itself has the item in stock for a higher price.

Why doesn't Amazon make it more prominent when you're buying from a third-party seller? I didn't know my copy of Le trou was coming from "The Bluegrass General Store" until I got my shipping notification. It doesn't bother me; I just find it curious.

med wrote:Why doesn't Amazon make it more prominent when you're buying from a third-party seller?

I think it's fairly clear. I go to the "10 used from $4.95" button, scroll down the list, and choose the one I want. The middle column is the store name.

neal wrote:just because rightpricedvd is showing up on the main screen does NOT mean that amazon isn't selling it. If you click on "New" and scroll down, you will see that Amazon.com is, in fact, still selling almost everything directly. The way Amazon currently works is that they list the lowest-priced, new DVD that Amazon will fulfill on the main page, even if Amazon itself has the item in stock for a higher price.

Mea culpa. I wouldn't have bothered posting if Drucker wasn't off the mark in the first place. I mean, Woman is a Woman going for $82 is obviously not Amazon.

Not only is it confusing that Amazon's listing third-party sellers as if it's themselves, they're also listing the sellers on the main page even when Amazon offers the item and making you scroll down a second page to find their own listing. You'd think they'd want to move their own product more. It's as if they see themselves and the fulfilled sellers as the same thing.

neal wrote:It doesn't really matter at this point

It matters regarding the board, because Amazon having multiple copies of OOP titles in stock is newsworthy, while we all know AM sellers have been listing new copies all along. Only when a seller is offering it for the same price or less does the distinction not matter much to someone in the market for a title.

med wrote:Why doesn't Amazon make it more prominent when you're buying from a third-party seller?

They used to. I believe the annoying way they currently do it started earlier this year.

Drucker wrote:

med wrote:Why doesn't Amazon make it more prominent when you're buying from a third-party seller?

I think it's fairly clear. I go to the "10 used from $4.95" button, scroll down the list, and choose the one I want. The middle column is the store name.

If you've been following the discussion in this thread, it's clear it's not as clear to you as you seem to think it is. You were mistaken about it in this post, which is what has led to the rest of the discussion.

swo17 wrote:

med wrote:Why doesn't Amazon make it more prominent when you're buying from a third-party seller?

They used to. I believe the annoying way they currently do it started earlier this year.

I believe it has to do now with third-party sellers being included in the Amazon Prime deal. If the seller has Amazon Prime shipping, the items they sell will be listed similar to the ones Amazon sell themselves.

neal wrote:

Drucker wrote:

med wrote:Why doesn't Amazon make it more prominent when you're buying from a third-party seller?

I think it's fairly clear. I go to the "10 used from $4.95" button, scroll down the list, and choose the one I want. The middle column is the store name.

If you've been following the discussion in this thread, it's clear it's not as clear to you as you seem to think it is. You were mistaken about it in this post, which is what has led to the rest of the discussion.

Yeah, realizing that now.

dx23 wrote:

swo17 wrote:

med wrote:Why doesn't Amazon make it more prominent when you're buying from a third-party seller?

They used to. I believe the annoying way they currently do it started earlier this year.

I believe it has to do now with third-party sellers being included in the Amazon Prime deal. If the seller has Amazon Prime shipping, the items they sell will be listed similar to the ones Amazon sell themselves.

You can pay Amazon to store and fulfill your items for you. Amazon gets paid by the cubic foot, gets paid a picking/packing fee, pays less for mailing than you do, and pays nothing for the products of yours that it's selling. They make about 22% of the listing price on your DVD sale. As a bonus to you, your potential customers can qualify for regular free or Prime shipping.

If you pay for "Fulfillment by Amazon," you get listed on the main page if your price is lower than theirs.

Does anyone know which of these were previously insanely expensive and worth picking up immediately? (Like the Carlos Saura Eclipse) I just ordered a few and don't really want to pick up any more, but am wondering specifically about Diary of a Country Priest and The Fallen Idol. Am I a fool to let these sit for a while?

Fallen Idol's been pretty cheap. Frequently under $20 used.

Huston's We Were Strangers

Is The Misfits blu really OOP?

domino harvey wrote:Huston's We Were Strangers

Glad I just barely picked this up. I think this is his best film (of those I've seen).

perkizitore wrote:Is The Misfits blu really OOP?

It was mentioned in this thread a few months ago, so I ordered it up cheap at B&N. Looks like they still have it.

Cash Flagg wrote:Alfred Hitchcock Premier Collection

Did MGM released any of this films separately, besides Lifeboat which was released by FOX?

I believe they all are available separately.

dx23 wrote:

Cash Flagg wrote:Alfred Hitchcock Premier Collection

Did MGM released any of this films separately, besides Lifeboat which was released by FOX?

They were available separately, but most have been deleted. Only the three former Criterions and Lifeboat are still in print. I know The Lodger is particularly hard to find now, and Sabotage is starting to show up with higher and higher prices. A pity because I believe these are the best R1 versions so far of the British films included.

Is the Ultimate Hammer Collection OOP?

Is that the big UK set? I'm not sure. It's been disappearing and reappearing in stock at Amazon.co.uk, might be worth checking back every few days

It's certainly the best purchase you can make this year. It's cheaper and with higher quality packaging than those Fox sets with about the same level of effort put into the transfers. Not to mention that most of the films are great.

Cash Flagg wrote:Alfred Hitchcock Premier Collection

No chance that they finally decided to re-do it without the horrific rate of bad disks in the box?

About a year ago Costco had them for about $23, so I decided that was cheap enough to risk it. I went through 3 or 4 boxes (returning all but one) in an attempt to assemble one complete set without problems. I never did find one with a copy of Notorious that would play (they all had visibly cloudy sections of the disk, and all froze within a couple minutes one way or the other from the wine cellar scene). I finally gave up, accepted that price for the box set without Notorious, and bought a separate copy of that one movie.

PillowRock wrote:

Cash Flagg wrote:Alfred Hitchcock Premier Collection[/i]

No chance that they finally decided to re-do it without the horrific rate of bad disks in the box?

About a year ago Costco had them for about $23, so I decided that was cheap enough to risk it. I went through 3 or 4 boxes (returning all but one) in an attempt to assemble one complete set without problems. I never did find one with a copy of Notorious that would play (they all had visibly cloudy sections of the disk, and all froze within a couple minutes one way or the other from the wine cellar scene). I finally gave up, accepted that price for the box set without Notorious, and bought a separate copy of that one movie.

Yeah, I heard about that problem and remember that Gary refused to review the set until the problem was fixed. However, I decided to give it a try during a B & N sale a few years back. I lucked out. All discs were in perfect shape on the first try.

Rosen's Lilith (JUMP ON THIS), Kramer's Ship of Fools (LITERALLY JUMP ON THIS-- FIND A COPY AND HOP UP AND DOWN ON IT UNTIL BROKEN), Huston's Annie (Maybe to make way for a release in the proper aspect ratio?), and all of the MGM James Bond films in SD and Blu