Release date: July 2017
HDN Group Buy: TBA
Note: Limited to 400 copies
HDN Group Buy: TBA
Note: Limited to 400 copies
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Passengers (Blu-ray SteelBook) (HDzeta Special Edition Silver Label) [China]
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I really don't understand you, so my apologies if I'm misinterpreting. Are you insinuating that it's MORE ethical and moral to allow the scalpers (erm, ahem, sorry "re-sellers") to have first crack at premium releases, as opposed to die hard collectors on collecting sites that find it a little difficult to jump through various hoops and wake up at 3 am to place an order?
Its simple. The retailer has an online store that is now relatively stable. So encourage collectors to buy through their stores first.
Nova was a nightmare during the early days, so lots preferred GB as it was convenient to secure a copy instead of fighting against Magento. But off late, Nova have turned around their website which is now more stable. Still they allocate too many copies to GBs which indirectly encourages scalping. If a buyer wanted to pay $50, then via GB he would pay $60. So he tries to order online as well when it goes live trying to make up that $10 he paid extra. Lots of people do this but won't disclose that. This is normal but sadly this is a byproduct of having GBs for something that could potentially be easily purchased directly.
Oh, okay. I understand your logic but don't agree with it. If you were to only say "support the company's webstore as it provides them more traffic, direct sales, etc." then I would agree. If you're saying go to the webstore so that scalpers can have an easier time with their profit margins, I say I disagree, but respectfully. I'm not saying what you're doing is this big, bad, unethical thing, since re-sellers are often the only way to even acquire a coveted release if you were late to the party, but I don't think what you're suggesting is logic I agree with.
Nonetheless, I follow your logic and respect your ability to take that stance.
For every winner there is a loser.
For every passionate collector there is a scalper both on the inside and the outside.
90% of long term collectors scalp at some point in time unless they have the money tree in their backyard. So scalping conversation is not going to end well. It can be annoying but that's the way things are. Some of the prolific scalpers make use of every opportunity given to them as well as try to create those opportunities by striking a deal with the retailers which normal collectors can only dream of. Back to topic, this is still in stock.
For every passionate collector there is a scalper both on the inside and the outside.
90% of long term collectors scalp at some point in time unless they have the money tree in their backyard. So scalping conversation is not going to end well. It can be annoying but that's the way things are. Some of the prolific scalpers make use of every opportunity given to them as well as try to create those opportunities by striking a deal with the retailers which normal collectors can only dream of. Back to topic, this is still in stock.
@lgans316 - you also need to add the positives for retailers for offloading pieces of their cherry pie in large bulks to GB hosts / resellers.
From your point of view it will come down ethical values vs risk.
Say the print run was 4,000 individual copies.
Selling to 4,000 individual collectors = much higher risk due to damage in shipment, lost packages, claims/chargebacks, fraud, and also creates more work.
Selling 4,000 copies with portions of that allocated to GB's, resellers, and the rest to individual sellers = less risk, and less work. Each pieces of cake take's less work to wrap up and get this shipped to a buyer that has an established relationship with the third party reseller.
So it works both ways from the retailers point of view and as an individual customer.
From your point of view it will come down ethical values vs risk.
Say the print run was 4,000 individual copies.
Selling to 4,000 individual collectors = much higher risk due to damage in shipment, lost packages, claims/chargebacks, fraud, and also creates more work.
Selling 4,000 copies with portions of that allocated to GB's, resellers, and the rest to individual sellers = less risk, and less work. Each pieces of cake take's less work to wrap up and get this shipped to a buyer that has an established relationship with the third party reseller.
So it works both ways from the retailers point of view and as an individual customer.
Not forgetting Best Buy in the USA (USA steel) and the UK one from Zoom/Zavvi/HMV and Amazon (UK steel) and the RoW steel (Scandinavia, Germany etc...)
http://steelbook.com/?s=passengers
Then the Bonus discs and script book/post card sets.
Must have come back. It wasn't showing under New Products, or using advanced search, or under Silver Label series.
I actually thought Passengers was released on the 7th but it seems like if the above is still correct it's actually released already!!
HDZeta's website is down so I can't check to see if my order has shipped or not though
Update:
All stuffs just arrived Warehouse,we will strat the shipping at monday.sorry for the delay.
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Thanks for the update @wxlinkswd
That Slip looks a stunner, appears I made the right choice waiting for this version
That Slip looks a stunner, appears I made the right choice waiting for this version
This one looks awesome. Colors, detailes, lenti, probably the best passengers premium, too bad I don´t collect silvers 
Shame there wasn't a GB here on HDN..
I'm cautious of using my debit card on their website since I've just received a new card 
Slip looks great
I'm cautious of using my debit card on their website since I've just received a new card Slip looks great 
Shame there wasn't a GB here on HDN..
Get yourself one of those pre-paid MasterCard things mate
So much better than the Kimchi One
....maybe i get one for a reasonable price at ebay- Status
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