I agree @javi you should definitely set your budget and know what is best for you , @vinny91 you too ! As with every type of collection sometimes there are things that you need to pass up because of the costs and that is PERFECTLY fine , you do what you need to do ! Unfourtantly every thing is going up worldwide as we know so im sure alot of members are having the same "problem" as you guys, just not everyone will talk about it openly.
@capricornio34232 you are an extreme collector. I have known you since the beginning of time LOL. Your lack of excitement is proberbly due to the fact that collecting these types of things has become mainstream , not as elite as it used to be in the day , where it took months to get stuff out on the market and when it was only 1 or 2 . I think Germany Media Markt started the "flooding" back then as they always had "series" of films in Steelbooks at one time come out. It was also just the Steelbook not all these "extras" that the industry keeps trying to sell us on. Sure they are nice to have and make the edition "more premium" but it also jacks up the costs immensely.
As for the statment about innovation , uniqueness and quality i disagree with you on that . There are a few who try to bring something unique to the market . At one time (and still is considered unique) these Wooden Cases from UHD CLUB were unique and therefore cost more too ! Broad Nation has brought uniqueness to the market with the MP Case and its overall design. Another unique retailer is CE or the new IS , but those are things that people complain about (due to costs), costs is always going to be associated with quality of item.
Im still waiting for the world to get better and back to some sort of norm but i fear that that wont be happening , we will just have to adapt and keep moving forward and if that means we have to sell some of our collection to concentrate on only the Retailers or Editions we want , then that is what it will have to be. I can understand your "thoughts" and it makes me sad to see this happen to those who have really amassed a large (very large) collection over many years of collecting.
Thats my 2 cents .....
So guys lets try to get this back on to the subject of this RELEASE itself . We can discuss this further in the Chat area as it is something we all in general "problems" have and are not just pretaining to this one edition or Retailer.
Thanks alot for your understanding .
Take care
John
Cleaned up the thread as some posts has nothing to do with the topic subject. If you want to give feedback , please do so , we do have a section for that as well. Thanks for your understanding John
