The OOP Heads-Up Thread

[ShellOilJunior]

I'm saving my Third Man stash (I won't even say how many I own) for when the price goes up even more. I think it can top out at $250.

[Drucker]

I have the original DVD and a blu ray of Third Man (found the latter at Princeton Record Exchange for a cool $25 a few months ago). Nothing will get me to sell it.
I do have two copies of Eclipse 6, and am waiting to see if they climb higher (a few went for about $100 last week), but the risk is always that if they came back in print somehow in decent editions (a good blu ray) the price would drastically drop.

Or I might be willing to trade it down the line, depending on what stayed out of print and what's available (MoC Naruse box owners...)

[duck duck]

I'm saving my Third Man stash (I won't even say how many I own) for when the price goes up even more. I think it can top out at $250.

On behalf of film lover's everywhere.... You're a dick!

[tarpilot]

He speaks for the trees

[ShellOilJunior]

Pithy yet degenerate. Very nice.

[bugsy_pal]

I'm saving my Third Man stash (I won't even say how many I own) for when the price goes up even more. I think it can top out at $250.

On behalf of film lover's everywhere.... You're a dick!

That's putting it mildly!

[tarpilot]

Give me a fucking break. I hope you make a grand, shelly

[stevewhamola]

Glad to see everyone's enjoying their sour grapes here.

*Stares tenderly at two copies of Third Man blu on shelf*

[Dirk]

Give me a fucking break. I hope you make a grand, shelly

Thank you! If someone is willing to pay that much for them, like hell I'd respond with, "No, really, I insist that you pay the MSRP."

[bugsy_pal]

It's what the market will bear... but... there are more things in life than money. Or there are certainly better ways to make a buck. For every copy that someone is holding waiting for the dollar value to peak, there is someone on this forum who is looking for a copy at a reasonable price. Hey, no sour grapes from me - I bought my "Third Man" blu at $45 a couple of months after it went OOP.

[tarpilot]

There are better ways to make a buck than quintupling an investment by doing nothing at all? That kinda seems like the best way to make a buck ever

[willoneill]

The period during which Third Man went out of print was long enough that anyone who wanted a reasonably-priced copy should have been able to acquire one. I know, because I had to replace the first one I bought, and I only bought the first one after Criterion first announced it was going OOP. So in this case, I don't think you can justifiably accuse anyone of hoarding copies at other people's expense. If those few (and the grand scheme of things, they must be few) duplicate copies in people's collections probably wouldn't drive the price down considerably if they had stayed in the market.

[Gregory]

The period during which Third Man went out of print was long enough that anyone who wanted a reasonably-priced copy should have been able to acquire one.

Yes, but if more had done what ShellOil did, that may not have been the case. In some instances when a title is suddenly announced as being OOP, within a couple days it's impossible to get one for any reasonable price, and I think speculators buying up many of the remaining copies available contributes to that.

[Brian C]

Speculation is evil.

[ShellOilJunior]

The summer prior to Third Man going OOP it was being offered on Amazon for $15 for a few weeks...

[domino harvey]

Weirdly, Whatever Works Blu-ray

[The Narrator Returns]

I'd normally say that a Criterion might be on the way, but Whatever Works would be less popular than Tiny Furniture and Armageddon combined.

[domino harvey]

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Life is a Bed of Roses (Good riddance)
Melo
Zigeunerweisen

[manicsounds]

If that's the case, I'd like to see Kino upgrade and release the Seijun Suzuki Taisho Trilogy on Blu-ray.

[SamLowry]

The summer prior to Third Man going OOP it was being offered on Amazon for $15 for a few weeks...

I remember there was discussion of it going OOP before it actually did & overlap w/the Amazon Criterion sale (which bested the B&N sale, but which I've only seen Amazon do 2x). I went back in to my account: $15.99 for the blu-ray on September 24 2009 & the official announcement was a month later. In November Amazon had Criterion blu-rays for anywhere from $13 (400 Blows) to $18. The Third Man did go out of stock first, but I remember them being available for a while (and had contemplated hoarding a few, but as someone who knew that Apple's stock value would at least double its $12 price with the release of the iPod & not take advantage, I of course sat on this one too).

[manicsounds]

Arrow Video's "Dawn Of The Dead" 4 disc and "Martin" 2 disc editions.

[Feego]

Classic Media's Raw Deal (1948)

[knives]

Hopefully this means a Crit ala Godzilla.

[swo17]

Note that the paired release of T-Men is conspicuously still in print.

[domino harvey]

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That Thing You Do (Extended Version)