The Apartment

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Re: The Apartment

#76 Post by domino harvey » Wed Dec 27, 2017 7:54 am

Amazon canceled my fucking order

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Re: The Apartment

#77 Post by sabbath » Wed Dec 27, 2017 8:13 am

Same here. I can't believe this. What's the meaning of pre-order?

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Re: The Apartment

#78 Post by mfunk9786 » Wed Dec 27, 2017 8:26 am

Also cancelled

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Re: The Apartment

#79 Post by med » Wed Dec 27, 2017 8:58 am

Oh, good to know I'm not alone on the whole cancelled thing.

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#80 Post by Charles » Wed Dec 27, 2017 9:15 am

Same. It’s happening again.

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Re: The Apartment

#81 Post by Ashirg » Wed Dec 27, 2017 9:22 am

Placed order at Deepdiscount with EGGNOG coupon, but it's backordered and hoping it won't get cancelled.

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Re: The Apartment

#82 Post by nick » Wed Dec 27, 2017 9:55 am

I also received the cancellation email from Amazon this morning. Quickly ordered it direct from Arrow.

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Re: The Apartment

#83 Post by markymark » Wed Dec 27, 2017 9:55 am

Cancelled here too (ordered on day 1 of pre-order). Does this mean that Amazon got next to zero copies? I don't understand how they can sell an item that they will never have :|

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Re: The Apartment

#84 Post by domino harvey » Wed Dec 27, 2017 9:56 am

I ended up ordering from both DeepDiscount and Amazon.co.uk, as I'm not taking any chances on missing this. On the off chance that I end up receiving both, I'll sell one on here for cost rather than going the usual gouging route on eBay, in the shared holiday spirit of Fuck Amazon

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Re: The Apartment

#85 Post by markymark » Wed Dec 27, 2017 10:13 am

I just ordered from Arrow ($37.77 shipped to U.S.) as I *really* didn't want to miss this release.

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Re: The Apartment

#86 Post by Ribs » Wed Dec 27, 2017 10:52 am

I imagine this has little to do with stock levels and is just that Amazon still hasn’t gotten stock in after release and has thus opted to cancel instead, a fairly common practice they’ve done on Arrow titles in the past. No one has it in stock for the simple reason US stock still hasn’t went out.

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Re: The Apartment

#87 Post by domino harvey » Wed Dec 27, 2017 10:57 am

Not so, people have received stateside orders from Best Buy, Wal-Mart, Bullmoose, and Diabolik

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Re: The Apartment

#88 Post by Ribs » Wed Dec 27, 2017 11:22 am

I mean, I think I'm right that this is just Amazon being Amazon and doing whatever they can to back out of a pre-order price guarantee. I'm curious if it might be instore at any BNs where it would theoretically be 50% off (can't find a web listing).

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Re: The Apartment

#89 Post by mfunk9786 » Wed Dec 27, 2017 11:27 am

I ordered it from Deep Discount with my fingers crossed (can't get over taking a huge price leap), but this really sucks. What was once going to be a Christmas present is now a total boondoggle.

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Re: The Apartment

#90 Post by domino harvey » Wed Dec 27, 2017 11:30 am

Ribs wrote:I mean, I think I'm right that this is just Amazon being Amazon and doing whatever they can to back out of a pre-order price guarantee. I'm curious if it might be instore at any BNs where it would theoretically be 50% off (can't find a web listing).
Quite possible. Also quite possible Arrow said no more copies were available for Amazon. The price was super cheap and it is a popular and fairly mainstream film as far as studio era Hollywood goes, so it's not implausible that it's sold out (though I likewise am unconvinced it is)

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Re: The Apartment

#91 Post by dwk » Wed Dec 27, 2017 11:31 am

Add me to the cancelled by Amazon list. Ah well, I'll wait for a bookless version.

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Re: The Apartment

#92 Post by domino harvey » Wed Dec 27, 2017 11:33 am

Wish I hadn't sold my old copy, as I have to forgo my annual tradition of watching this between Christmas and New Years. Guess I'll just have to watch one of the literally thousands of other movies I own

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Re: The Apartment

#93 Post by mfunk9786 » Wed Dec 27, 2017 11:46 am

Don't let kevyip win

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Re: The Apartment

#94 Post by domino harvey » Wed Dec 27, 2017 1:00 pm

Blu-ray.com users are reporting Diabolik has removed its listing and is canceling orders. This may indeed be OOP...

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Re: The Apartment

#95 Post by Jean-Luc Garbo » Wed Dec 27, 2017 1:00 pm

Mine was cancelled, too. Amazon chat help said people would be e-mailed when it's back in stock in a week, but this still strikes me as very ridiculous.

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Re: The Apartment

#96 Post by The Elegant Dandy Fop » Wed Dec 27, 2017 1:13 pm

My order was cancelled too. It pissed me off a lot as I pre-ordered it back in November.

What's been going on with Arrow? I have stopped picking up their films when each order suddenly became a gamble of "does it includes a booklet or not". At least Indicator changes their packaging when they re-release their films so you know which edition it is. With these weird limited pressings, it feels like the films go out-of-print before I can ever get it, which then creates that unhealthy scalpers market on eBay or that stupid artificial scarcity that already plagues all the bad independent music labels. I'm typically not a first-day buyer with films and usually wait a few months to years down the line, so I find this very frustrating. Criterion never does anything like this unless their films have to go out-of-print. If I suddenly choose to buy a release they put out four or five years ago, I never have to worry that it's an inferior edition. Plus with all their delays on every single one of their releases, it zapped a lot of the enthusiasm I had for them.

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Re: The Apartment

#97 Post by DeprongMori » Wed Dec 27, 2017 1:18 pm

My Amazon US order was just cancelled as well. FWIW, Amazon UK still has copies with a net cost of about $33 after shipping and removal of VAT.

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Re: The Apartment

#98 Post by Ashirg » Wed Dec 27, 2017 1:34 pm

Was it even released in US? It seems orders were cancelled when release date passed (December 26) and Amazon didn't get any copies in stock.

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Re: The Apartment

#99 Post by DeprongMori » Wed Dec 27, 2017 1:41 pm

A friend who ordered from Amazon US when it was first announced at about $33 on October 13 (corrected from my original post) had his order fulfilled at the lowered $22 price. I ordered mine after the price drop and was just canceled. They must have run out their fulfillment.

(Further correction: They haven’t had their order cancelled, but haven’t received it yet either. Apologies for any confusion due to my earlier post.)
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Re: The Apartment

#100 Post by jazzo » Wed Dec 27, 2017 1:50 pm

Not that this helps most of you, but if anyone's in Toronto, Bay Street Video had quite a few copies in stock. I picked one up last week, and it's magnificent.

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