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Posted by Derek Janssen on 09/04/05 13:38
DaLoverhino wrote:
> Marci wrote:
>
>>>$99 VHS were never ever meant for the "Average Joe" to own. That was
>>>the Price for Video Stores that that would Rent them out for a
>>>profit..
>>
>>That's not exactly so. The first day Schindler's List came out I wanted
>>it so bad I was willing to pay anything. I went to about 3 retail
>>stores to compare prices and all of them were $98.99. And yes, I did
>>end up buying it for that price.
>
> One hundred bucks for Schindler's List? Ouch! Why were you so
> desperate to get that movie right away? (Or any movie really.) I
> mean, did you think it was gonna disappear or something?
In fact, the only way you *could* buy rental-priced VHS you were that
desperate to own (or had to be) was to wait two months and pick it up on
Columbia House's mail-order club for $29.99, which was designed to
clearance out all those unsold rental-price VHS's in the first place.
<pause>
(...Was I perhaps a generation too late with that advice?) 0_0
Derek Janssen
djanss@charter.net
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