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If I was an eBay prospector, I would have cleaned them out on those el cheapo titles and just sat on them for a couple months. I am fairly certain a large portion of purchases were some variation of that process

domino harvey wrote:If I was an eBay prospector, I would have cleaned them out on those el cheapo titles and just sat on them for a couple months. I am fairly certain a large portion of purchases were some variation of that process

Definitely. But after sitting on them for as long as they have TT and SAE would surely rather take the $8/copy and let the speculators deal with the stock.

A lot of those older titles that didn't sell out before now are going to sit on eBay for a pretty long time, so a sensible move by TT.

Bluray.com members also hit this sale hard. Many who had never bought TT before.

Boston Strangler at Beaver. I prefer the color of the Carlotta, but there's something off about it. Look at Henry Fonda's collar at caps a holic, you see a weird effect also present on the Beaver caps.

I don't get the green leaning of this or Pretty Poison for that matter.

Fox seems to have terrible colorists doing their remasters. Sometimes too blue, other times too yellow, now too green! Or maybe this time they went too blue and too yellow.

Drucker wrote:Look at Henry Fonda's collar at caps a holic, you see a weird effect also present on the Beaver caps

I don't know if the TT has the same issue, but yes, the whole Carlotta disc has a weird vertical effect.

FYI, Philadelphia sold out on 11/26

And now The Other has sold out as of today.

Pal Joey is now officially sold out, too.

The TT sale has now been extended to Friday; good time to pick up some titles for Christmas.

AKA : "Please, we still have some copies of Bite the Bullet and The Rains of Ranchipur that are getting more dusty than some Code Red titles !"

I can't believe I paid $35 for Bite the Bullet. Good movie, though

Now gone:

Drums Along the Mohawk
Oliver!

Jane Eyre is down to 100 copies.

i did not get either oliver or the other, because the uk editions are even cheaper and i doubt they will have great resale value. i am bummed though that judgment at Nuremberg and major dundee sold out that quickly! (although the latter will probably get a uk release sooner than later)

All these TT releases selling out is the hardest news of 2016 yet.

swo17 wrote:All these TT releases selling out is the hardest news of 2016 yet.

Well, if it is any consolation, they are not selling out at their full price, so they likely aren't making very much off of these.

Twilight Time losing money is the best news of 2016

Their breakeven point is 1500 copies, so they are making some money.

They are breaking even at full price, are we sure they have sold 1500 copies of all sold out titles without sales?

Beats me. So ends our Frogurt riff. Damn it.

Stupid business model. They just sitting on out-of-print titles with rights license still active.

The vast majority of the OOP titles are past the three year licencing window.

Lost Horizon and Jane Eyre are now sold out.

HOW TO SUCCEED IN BUSINESS WITHOUT REALLY TRYING (1967) BLU-RAY - March 14th
BABY BOOM (1987) BLU-RAY - March 14th
PEYTON PLACE (1957) BLU-RAY - March 14th
OUR MAN IN HAVANA (1959) BLU-RAY - March 14th
THE FORTUNE COOKIE (1966) BLU-RAY - April 11th
YEAR OF THE COMET (1992) BLU-RAY - April 11th
HOW TO STEAL A MILLION (1966) BLU-RAY - April 11th
YOU’LL NEVER GET RICH (1941) BLU-RAY - April 11th
ANOTHER WOMAN (1988) BLU-RAY - April 11th

In for Peyton Place, though I'm increasingly tiring of TT's model and prices even when they put out a title I like now that Kino is doing the same thing at half the cost. Surprised they didn't just pair You'll Never Get Rich with You Were Never Lovelier. Both are minor musicals and I doubt I'll upgrade. How to Steal a Million is out all over the world for cheap and has been for years. Another Woman is superfluous thanks to Arrow. The Fortune Cookie sucks-- Wilder's worst film. Vague recollection of Baby Boom from childhood, definitely not enough to spurn me on to dropping $30. Haven't seen the rest.