Thread: The Prices of Anime! Do you Agree with them?

Originally Posted by LenMiyata

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If your complaining about the expensive of a hobby that you chose with your own free will, perhaps you should try a hobby that is more affordable, such as collecting rocks...

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That was awesome. ^_^

I don't have a problem with paying 20 bucks a disc for anime at my online suppliers shop, (I get good deals). I went to town the other day and at Wally-Mart they wanted 20 bucks for some god awful horror film, so 20-30 isn't anything to complain about.

The only company that I have any complaints about is Geneon, and thats just because there boxsets give little to no discount from buying each disc individually.

Frist off shoulden't this therad be a debate.... hm o well.
Well S&D and intrest is what debates on how much an item will cost.
If product is not selling then they must somtimes rase the price and thats just how thing go sometimes.

Exactly how could it be a debate thread? We don't have control over the prices. I also agree that Geneon's stuff is abit pricey but it's still selling. So I don't really think the prices are all that bad. It's like Len said if you can't afford it you need to collect something else. Tho I hope you wouldn't pay for rocks.

I'm saying that about Geneon because I've heard from tsurara that Geneon is in trouble. I've also read that ADV had taken over the sales and distibuting section of Geneon (or something like that). My complaint about the boxsets is, if they're not going to decrease the price more than 20 bucks or so. Wouldn't it be cheaper just to lower each individual disc by a few dollars, than wasting money releasing them in a new boxset (thin or otherwise)?

Originally Posted by Mechazawa

I'm saying that about Geneon because I've heard from tsurara that Geneon is in trouble. I've also read that ADV had taken over the sales and distibuting section of Geneon (or something like that). My complaint about the boxsets is, if they're not going to decrease the price more than 20 bucks or so. Wouldn't it be cheaper just to lower each individual disc by a few dollars, than wasting money releasing them in a new boxset (thin or otherwise)?

Either way they would still be loosing money especially if they are in trouble. I'm sure that they just want to see just how much that they can get for each disk. Besides if you have already started collecting a series and in the middle of it the box set comes out are you going to finish the series or are you going to by the box set? I don't like to waste money so I by the single disks untill I'm done when something like that happens.

Yes, but they would lose less money by not printing up a new run of disc that are slowing in sales for boxsets.

I cut and run when the boxset is cheaper, I did it with X tv series. I bought the first 2 and artbox, and Geneon suddenly stops putting them out. They release X TV remix on 5 disc instead of the 8 and then release a boxset, thats cheaper to buy than the remaining six disc I need to finish the show. Of course this has been a one time thing, I haven't seen Geneon trying to revisit the "remix".

I just don't follow what Geneon is thinking, I know there trying to make money or at least break even. All of there individual show disc, are the same prices as most ADV individual show disc (26.98 a disc) and the quality is as good or better than ADV. However when the show gets boxseted or thinpaked, ADV is prices are 35.98-80.98 and Geneon except for a few recent exceptions on their older products most Geneon boxsets are 80 and above.

I'm not dissagreeing with you I think it's wrong also but I'm usually about five disks in when they do the box set. So me doing that is useless. That's what they hope for, that people are too far into the series that they don't want the set. So they make money either way. But unless you can talk to the head people at Geneon there is nothing we as consumers can do about it.