Return of the King DVD now on sale at EBgames...

MSkeezer

I picked up my copy yesterday after reading the story at www.theonering.net. They're selling them a week early, for $24.99. You may have to ask about it, like I did. It was the only copy they had, but at least it was widescreen The guy told me that will all DVD's they get, they get an email stating when they they have to put them out on the shelves, but with ROTK, they email said to sell them. So there ya go.

Here's the story at theonering.net

"Lucky Ringer Spy Nick writes: Ebgames stores across the Chicago area have been selling the ROTK [theatrical] dvd since Saturday May 15th!!! I picked up my copy at the Broadview Illinois store last night. They are selling it for the full price of $24.99, but to have it a week early made up for all the waiting. The manager at the Broadview store said they are doing it nationwide with each store having very limited copies. Call your local store to confirm. [More] Edit from WeeTanya: Apparently the DVDs are being sold at the store's discretion. Some are, some aren't."

Ron-P

Wonder what fines, if any, would a store incure for breaking street dates like this?

You say that the email said for the store to sell them yet from the one ring, it says the stores are selling them at their own discretion.

Edit: You lucky **** . I haven't even seen this film yet.

MSkeezer

That's what the guy at the store just told me. I just saw that update on theonering.net today about them selling them on their own discretion. I dunno. I do know, however, that this is one awesome DVD. It will really give your system a workout. The LFE will kick your ****, it'll even pick you up, just to kick your **** again. It's awesome...

ninerbj

What are the audio options? DTS???

goingganzo

i got a coppy like allmost a month ago for 1 buck lol dont you just love china

Billm57

thats the retail price! wait a week and it will be around 15 bucks..
and in other news...

.LOS ANGELES (Hollywood Reporter) - Video retailer Electronics Boutique is in hot water for allegedly selling DVDs of "The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King" 10 days before the official May 25 release date.

Warner Home Video, the DVD distributor of the Oscar-winning title, has suspended all home video shipments to West Chester, Pa.-based EB, which controls about 1,000 retail stores in malls across the country and about 500 additional stores overseas.

"Violations of street date are all too common in the highly competitive home video industry," WHV senior vp domestic sales Jeff Baker said, "but what makes this case unprecedented is that EB and its store managers not only refused to pull the DVD from the shelves, but the company's executives have refused to cooperate or even discuss the issue.

"I've been in the video business since 1979, and I have never seen such a blatant violation of street date," Baker said. "We are not going to let them get away with this, and we are discussing the issue with our attorneys to consider every possible option."

EB officials could not be reached for comment. Warner Home Video executives said they don't believe any of EB's overseas stores are violating release dates.

Warner, which is the DVD and VHS distributor for its sister company New Line Home Entertainment, first received word of EB selling the "King" DVD before its release date on the studio's retailer hotline, Baker said.

Reports came to WHV from competing retailers large and small, complaining that EB was effectively stealing their business, Baker said. "The callers told us that the DVDs were blowing out the doors at EB, and we have verified several of these reports."

Without question, the "King" DVD is a prime release for EB's core consumers: video game buyers. "Obviously this title is right up their alley," Baker said.

As news of the release-date violation spread during the weekend and this week, there was some speculation that EB was using the DVD as a "loss leader," meaning that they were selling it for less than cost, a legal business practice in the United States.

However, Baker and others have said that EB stores have been selling the double-disc "King" DVD for $24.99, just under WHV's suggested retail price of $29.95, meaning that EB is not selling the title as a loss leader or under the wholesale price.

An informal survey of EB retail stores found that the "King" DVD had allegedly sold-out or was no longer on store shelves.

EB is scheduled to announce first-quarter results Thursday in a call with Wall Street analysts.



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danger boy

a local music store here is staying open after midnight to offer the ROTK for sale at 12:01am so you don't have to wait for the stores to open on Tues. I might just go get a copy.. since the place is only three blocks from where i live anyways. Midnight shopping spreee.

Demiurge

I'm waiting for the EE. No sense in buying it twice and i'd rather get the best version. I'll just rent it if I want to see it that bad.

Shizelbs

Originally posted by danger boy
a local music store here is staying open after midnight to offer the ROTK for sale at 12:01am so you don't have to wait for the stores to open on Tues. I might just go get a copy.. since the place is only three blocks from where i live anyways. Midnight shopping spreee.

Is that Hastings?

danger boy

yup. Hastings is offering the midnight sale.
they didn't say the price though.