Posted by Steve(JazzHunter) on 09/04/05 13:58

On Sun, 04 Sep 2005 06:38:12 -0700, Derek Janssen
<djanss@nospam.charter.net> wrote:

>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.

Or wait two months and buy the laser. Laserdiscs were not only better
quality than VHS but never had "rental pricing."

... Steve ..
>
><pause>
>
>(...Was I perhaps a generation too late with that advice?) 0_0
>
>Derek Janssen
>djanss@charter.net

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