Price above rubies and below DVDs
Ever wonder when you click through to Amazon to buy one of our recommended films there are so many prices listed? Take “Outsourced,” one of my favorites about an American who goes to run a telephone sales office in India and falls in love with the country (and the girl). You can buy it new for $11.69, used from $3.99 and stream for 24 hours for $3.99 or buy the download for…get this…$14.99. So you can get the DVD in your hands for $3.99 but and electronic version costs $14.99? What are they thinking? Actually it isn’t Amazon’s doing. They’re giving you every opportunity at every price point. They don’t care, they collect a commission on every sale. But the folks who distribute this movie are living in a lost world. It’s a world where they control the prices and they decide what you should pay. And what do you do? You buy the lowest cost DVD from the list of used sellers. You know Amazon stands behind the quality (or they should). And the distributor who set the ridiculous high price gets nothing. More on this in later blogs. For now, remember that “The Price Above Rubies” (not on MovieWithMe.com yet) is a real good movie too!
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November 14th, 2009 at 10:01
You mention “A Price Above Rubies” (a movie where I actually liked Renee Zillweger). Another of a similar theme that you might consider for MovieWithMe.com is “Kadosh” about a Hasidic woman who is divorced by her husband for being barren. “A Price Above Rubies”, being an American film, is kinder than “Kadosh,” which is bleak, but powerful.