Info on Pre-Barnabas DVDs

[retzev]

aren't products supposed to be cheaper when you cut out the middle man and get them directly from the manufacturer? i don't get what they're doing

[BuzzH]

Would DS fan club members be offered a discount of some kind on the dvds if purchased through MPI?

Nope, you'll be paying $20 MORE than if you bought them on Amazon, which I'm sure they'll eventually do because they are going to lose money until they offer them to EVERYONE, not just club members!

[Mysterious Benefactor]

Club members get a discount on the bobbleheads. And I could be wrong, but don't they also get a free display case for them after they buy them all?

[Barnabas'sBride]

Discounts on the dvds would be more desired. I can understand why people might not be satisfied with the bobblehead thing. Not everyone's interested in collecting them.

[Mysterious Benefactor]

Discounts on the dvds would be more desired.

That's probably very true.

Not everyone's interested in collecting them.

Exactly - I haven't bought them. But from MPI's standpoint, the discount on the bobbleheads is apparently an incentive for club members, who are already buying the DVDs, to buy additional merchandise. MPI IS in business to make money, after all - so, the discount offers they come up with are naturally going to be designed with an eye to increasing their bottom line and not necessarily with an eye to simply saving their customers money on the primary product they're most interested in. Any business is going to be working from the viewpoint that they've already got customers interested in one product (with MPI, the DVDs), so how can they also move other merchandise (in this case, the bobbleheads) that those customers might also be inclined to buy if given an incentive. 

[Midnite]

Club members ... don't they also get a free display case for them after they buy them all?

It's available to club members for $1 after a year of membership, regardless of whether they've purchased any additional bobbleheads or not.  And according to their website, it's not available to non-members, or at least it isn't right now.

[Mysterious Benefactor]

If ONLY MPI offered THE SILVER FILIGREE PEN. 

How incredibly foolish of them to think more people might be interested in Barnabas/Quentin/Werewolf/Josette bobbleheads.   


 

[Raineypark]

If ONLY MPI offered THE SILVER FILIGREE PEN. 

I suspect only a rare few of us lunatics would be willing to pay the price for a Sterling filigree pen.  
I doubt MPI would be willing to risk the investment.......

[Mysterious Benefactor]

I suspect only a rare few of us lunatics would be willing to pay the price for a Sterling filigree pen.

Nonsense! No self-respecting DS fan should be without one. It should be placed on a shelf of honor along with a stake and hammer, a jewel encrusted medallion, a cross, a filled brady decanter and a few snifters, a voodoo doll and pins, a bleeder valve, and, of course, assorted hair bows/ribbons and hairpieces/wigs (particularly a black wig for when you want to go completely incognito so that no one could ever possibly recognize you  ).

But what does MPI sell? DS boxers. Puhlease!! I ask you: When did a pair of boxers ever figure into a DS plot?!   


 

[Raineypark]

But what does MPI sell? DS boxers. Puhlease!! I ask you: When did a pair of boxers ever figure into a DS plot?!     

Oh My Goddess.....that was the hardest I've laughed in a long time......

But really.....wasn't one of the paperback novels entitled "Barnabas, Quentin, and the Boxer Shorts"? 

[Darren Gross]

No, that was "Barnabas, Quentin and Joe Louis"

[PennyDreadful]

Nonsense! No self-respecting DS fan should be without one. It should be placed on a shelf of honor along with a stake and hammer, a jewel encrusted medallion, a cross, a filled brady decanter and a few snifters, a voodoo doll and pins, a bleeder valve, and, of course, assorted hair bows/ribbons and hairpieces/wigs (particularly a black wig for when you want to go completely incognito so that no one could ever possibly recognize you  ).

 I do agree and am saving a spot right next to the filled...er... make that empty brandy decanter.  You know, perhaps MPI realizes that the majestic glory of the silver filigree pen can never truly be duplicated for mass consumption.  The new pens would surely pale in comparison to the TRUE pen.

[retzev]

You know, perhaps MPI realizes that the majestic glory of the silver filigree pen can never truly be duplicated for mass consumption.

unlike Josette's Music Box  :-

[victoriawinters]

"The title "Collector's Series," which was utilized when those episodes were issued on VHS video, will not be used for the DVDs. These 6 DVD releases, to be issued throughout 2007, initially will be available exclusively through MPI."  Shadowgram 153 (Emphasis added)

I'd like to point out the word "initially".  Of course, this could mean anything.  However, as I read this word in context it would indicate that the DVD club gets it first and then the secondary channels come.  It could also be that we have a mis-wording by the author and "initially" is an extraneous word.  However, I'm taking the "initially" to be hopeful even if it comes 1 year later.  I've waited this long.  Another year makes no difference to me.

[BuzzH]

However, I'm taking the "initially" to be hopeful even if it comes 1 year later.  I've waited this long.  Another year makes no difference to me.

Me too VW!