Comments on: Disney DVD Sadness

By: Andrew

Andrew — Sat, 01 Apr 2006 12:37:35 +0000

Hmmm, I suppose that could work…bit difficult in practice, tho. Interesting theory - I wonder what the ‘official’ position is on that

By: Ed

Ed — Fri, 31 Mar 2006 22:27:08 +0000

Since you only own a license to play the said merchandise, surely Lauren could make a copy and send it over the web to you. She’d then transfer ownership to yourself. Would that be covered by customs and excise??

By: Andrew

Andrew — Fri, 31 Mar 2006 21:58:43 +0000

I think UK customs will (or, at least, can) open anything worth over £18, but a gift marking would get around that afaik. That could be cool - thanks very much! May well take you up on the Aladdin offer - I can’t not own that film, really

By: Lauren

Lauren — Fri, 31 Mar 2006 20:19:00 +0000

And if all else fails, I can send it marked as a “gift.” I don’t think they tax those?

By: Lauren

Lauren — Fri, 31 Mar 2006 20:15:10 +0000

I’ve ordered stuff directly from Amazon Japan and Germany, and I had no problem…

As long as the value is under $1000 or so, I can’t see why they’d feel like they had to do anything about it…

By: Simon

Simon — Fri, 31 Mar 2006 20:12:29 +0000

You forget the evil that is customs and excise…

By: Lauren

Lauren — Fri, 31 Mar 2006 20:06:12 +0000

Here’s a thought…

Order them in large quantities from the US. Because of the exchange rate, the shipping would pretty much pay for itself. You’d need a region-free DVD player… but it might be worth it since the movies would so much cheaper, and you could buy most of them before they’re out in the UK. Average release day price for a DVD here is about $18…

And if you’d like Aladdin and/or the sequels on DVD, let me know — I can work things out. (They’d be region 1 though…)

By: Andrew

Andrew — Fri, 31 Mar 2006 19:49:35 +0000

And I note that the sequels are invariably very cheap, too

I guess they make plenty of money from merchandise, as well as Pixar

By: Ed

Ed — Fri, 31 Mar 2006 19:16:39 +0000

Why haven’t they gone bust because of this?? Do they not make any money from DVD sales?

By: Lil

Lil — Fri, 31 Mar 2006 18:45:33 +0000

I agree with you, but there are Buy 1 get 1 free offers a lot, £17.99 in some shops. I bought Emperor’s New Groove and Lion King individually for under £9 (quite a while before the crazy crazy DVD price drops before Christmas) =)

I mainly take exception to them spewing out sequels to classic films that don’t need sequels, purely for the money =P
Oh, and Lindsey Lohan ;P