Dealz

Sciprio wrote: »

Aren't all their dvds and music cds secondhand? I've notice that in the cork store anyway.

Nope. Thought that too at first but they have new/unopened/unviewed DVDs made up largely from overstocks and deletions from distributors AND 2nd hand DVDs too that are recycled.

The new ones sell for €1.49, the 2nd hand typically for €3 - crazy if you think about it on one level!

I was reading about overstocks in cds/dvds/blu rays recently. When a movie bombs and doesn't do the expected business at the box office the dvds etc have already been manufactured to the expected gross ratio. So say for example they expect a film to do £10m sterling in the UK and Ireland. Movie does £0.5m…..but they've already manufactured say 200,000 DVDs for the subsequent DVD release. So they now have 200,000 copies of a dvd they'll have huge difficulty selling.

So they sell 20,000 copies to amazon/HMV etc. at full price at launch (typically £5-7 each for a £14-19.99 DVD….. and 6months later cut their losses sell the remaining 180,000 copies at overstocks auctions to companies like deals etc. at £0.01 each. So the likes of Dealz etc. can sell them at €1.49 and still make a huge margin.

Overstocks and deletions make up large parts of bricks and mortar stock for sales for DVDs and cds etc.

When you're browsing this kind of stuff though 99% of the DVDs etc tend to be muck (they're that cheap for a reason) but on occasion you will strike gold. One man's meat is another man's poison and all that!

daytob wrote: »

ill have a look when i go again. ill pm you if i find them

Yay! Thanks a mill! Really appreciate that !