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Post by jarod on Oct 22, 2015 17:19:07 GMT
Anybody know why this box set is so expensive? I'd normally have signed up for this in a heartbeat but I've resisted so far. I'm tempted to wait for the reviews but I'm not sure BF aren't encouraging some people (not me) to piracy by this kind of price!
If it doesn't get good reviews I'm thinking of doing without this time.
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Post by pawntake on Oct 22, 2015 18:27:52 GMT
As I have said before on another thread drop the price it will sell like "Hot Cakes"Apparently there is a coloured Booklet!Not sure what a download will get you? it will be good! but its a bit pricey and faces a lot of competition from other ranges.
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Post by david on Oct 22, 2015 18:30:18 GMT
We've speculated that it's the cost of the licence. The fact it's sounding so slavishly similiar to the original and adapts 3 of the episodes has really cooled any interest for me. I love the No 2 castings but I'm in the rather bad position of every news story we've had has gotten me less and less interested.
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Post by omega on Oct 23, 2015 0:48:19 GMT
It's also blatantly Nick Brigg's pet project, so it's likely he was very keen to make it a very special release. Hopefully there's a more affordable entry point into the range, and that this lavish packaging isn't the norm for the range.
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Post by david on Oct 23, 2015 1:02:49 GMT
Yes, but it's not the packaging that's the chief expense is it? Otherwise the download would be a lot cheaper which it isn't at all. Indeed, it's only £5 less than the hard copy. The Sixth Doctor Last Adventure boxset, for one, was double the download price for the lavish packaging. Ditto for the other "book" like deluxe packages. I wouldn't be too suprised then if The Prisoner comes in a reasonably standard - if nicely designed - set. Maybe something like Frankenstein did.
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Post by redsharkJason on Oct 30, 2015 3:56:36 GMT
The Sixth Doctor Last Adventure boxset Having received a lot of criticism (at least on the forums), Big Finish may have regretted making the price gap between digital and CD so substantial for that particular Sixth Doctor set. So now with this Prisoner set also not being available in a standard CD option this could have been a contributing factor when setting its higher download price. As it stands, what UK citizen (that intends to buy the Prisoner set) wouldn't be inclined to pay the additional £5 for the deluxe CD option over the download? A "digital only" purchaser that buys the CD set would have the option of keeping it, giving it away as a gift or selling it for more than £5! £20 on eBay.co.uk with a modest shipping charge attached would still be a very fair price offered.
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Post by redsharkJason on Oct 30, 2015 4:43:38 GMT
Like it or not, another logical "contributing factor" on making The Prisoner download option more expensive would be the reality that the manufacturing cost of producing the deluxe CD set was distributed onto the digital sales option. The strategic temptation of adding even £5 extra onto the digital only option in order to encourage the buyer to purchase the hard copy offering instead also could have been exercised.
Even if the sales for The Prisoner prove to be successful, I'm assuming its overall profitability would be far less than a Doctor Who production (e.g. The Sixth Doctor: The Last Adventure).
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Post by jarod on Oct 30, 2015 12:23:33 GMT
I was in Portmeirion yesterday, wandering around in shirt sleeves in the late October sunshine. After visiting The Prisoner shop, I can feel myself being quite tempted to buy this ridiculously expensive box set. Oh no....
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Post by redsharkJason on Oct 30, 2015 19:38:25 GMT
ridiculously expensive box set. The pre-order price for the 5CD deluxe LE "booklets" (6 so far) has always been set at £40. The question is does an experimental success release such as The Prisoner warrant being issued within this more expensive lavish set? The £25 pre-order price Terrahawks model with its 5CD jewel case and booklet insert is the physical format vehicle that I prefer. If "misery loves company" is your thing, I've already pre-ordered The Prisoner LE set. I even had to pay the £4 Canadian delivery fee for a CD set that will be close to half price on the Book Depository that will include free shipping. Big Finish has to do a better job on rewarding their pre-order customers that are paying a significant price markup on some (in fairness not all) of their more expensive new releases. I'm more comfortable with the 4CD The Tenth Doctor Adventures LE £30 price structure, because it's being sold *exclusively* on the Big Finish website. So I won't be seeing that particular set considerably discounted a month later from another vendor source!
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Post by david on Oct 30, 2015 20:19:54 GMT
ridiculously expensive box set. The pre-order price for the 5CD deluxe LE "booklets" (6 so far) has always been set at £40. The question is does an experimental success release such as The Prisoner warrant being issued within this more expensive lavish set? I know a "lavish booklet" has been mentoned but I don't think it's been said for sure that it's coming in the LE Book format at all. I'd be surprised if it was given the lack of distance betwen the hard copy and download prices.
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Post by redsharkJason on Oct 30, 2015 20:53:28 GMT
I know a "lavish booklet" has been mentoned but I don't think it's been said for sure that it's coming in the LE Book format at all. I'd be surprised if it was given the lack of distance betwen the hard copy and download prices. Very interesting - if my assumption is wrong the "lavish colour booklet" better not encompass being a 4 page booklet insert!
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Post by redsharkJason on Oct 31, 2015 4:25:53 GMT
lack of distance between the hard copy and download prices. From a different perspective: A sizable "price gap" between download and CD is achieved for international customers viewing the Big Finish website in their native dollar currency. For anyone unaware, The Frankenstein type of cardboard CD booklet (a one-off so far) has the similar size dimensions of a standard CD jewel case with a larger thickness. Being also a special project of Nicholas Briggs, it is conceivable that The Prisoner CD set could be issued with that style of packaging.
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Post by Audio Watchdog on Nov 21, 2015 4:27:05 GMT
We've speculated that it's the cost of the licence. The fact it's sounding so slavishly similiar to the original and adapts 3 of the episodes has really cooled any interest for me. I love the No 2 castings but I'm in the rather bad position of every news story we've had has gotten me less and less interested. You and I have discussed this and I am pretty much in the same boat as you. Every piece of news or announcement or clip and I keep expecting/hoping to get excited and so far, nothing has done the trick. For my part, I just find it really weird. At some point I will probably let my love for the show knuckle down my resistence to the set but it hasn't happened yet. It would be nice if BF gave us some extended scenes or a free first episode because it sounds to me that there are several people on the fence. I know I am.
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Post by omega on Nov 21, 2015 5:19:33 GMT
The only thing to do with the Prisoner I have ever experienced, want to experience and will experience is the Simpsons episode The Computer Wore Menace Shoes.
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Post by seeley on Nov 21, 2015 6:31:17 GMT
The only thing to do with the Prisoner I have ever experienced, want to experience and will experience is the Simpsons episode The Computer Wore Menace Shoes. You should definitely check out the original TV series. It's well worthwhile. I think that you, as a fan of Doctor Who, would appreciate it. It's even got Chistopher Benjamin, in at least two episodes! I'm thankful to Big Finish for prompting me to try the series. The sad irony is, had I not watched it, I might actually be interested in buying Big Finish's iteration. As it is, I'm in a similar boat to David and Nathan. There's only one story that isn't based on an original series story and the trailers, while cool, don't make me enthusiastic. The chap playing #6 sounds like an inferior copy of McGoohan. I must say that I'm particularly puzzled by the choice of "Chimes of Big Ben." While it works quite well as a final story for the first boxset, it is the inevitable and unrepeatable false-escape episode. You'd think Big Finish would want to do their own story, with the same basic idea, as a way of putting their mark on the franchise.
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Post by randomjc on Dec 1, 2015 21:32:51 GMT
It's kind of sad. I really want to try this set, and I've always been the person to jump on just about any new range to pop up, but the $60 quite a turn off, and I love the special edition looking books we've received so far, but that's a heady price jump for a new series I don't know. Even the DL price is just...too much for me right now.
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Post by Digi on Dec 1, 2015 23:23:57 GMT
What are you all seeing in terms of price difference between physical versus digital? In Canadian dollars, the difference is pretty substantial, so I'm a bit confused by some of the conversation above, about how the prices are close. They're really not all that close -- at least in $CAD.
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Post by Star Platinum on Dec 1, 2015 23:48:22 GMT
What are you all seeing in terms of price difference between physical versus digital? In Canadian dollars, the difference is pretty substantial, so I'm a bit confused by some of the conversation above, about how the prices are close. They're really not all that close -- at least in $CAD. I've noticed cost wise Big Finish cuts us a bit of a break for Downloads, as those prices are a 1:1 ratio with GBP, where as physical products tend to be a 2:1 ratio with GBP which would make it extremely unaffordable for me.
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Post by randomjc on Dec 2, 2015 2:24:32 GMT
What are you all seeing in terms of price difference between physical versus digital? In Canadian dollars, the difference is pretty substantial, so I'm a bit confused by some of the conversation above, about how the prices are close. They're really not all that close -- at least in $CAD. I've noticed cost wise Big Finish cuts us a bit of a break for Downloads, as those prices are a 1:1 ratio with GBP, where as physical products tend to be a 2:1 ratio with GBP which would make it extremely unaffordable for me. The exchange rate is only applied to the physical product, not for digital. US is like 1.50 to 1 gbp.
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Post by Hieronymus on Dec 2, 2015 4:20:52 GMT
The only thing to do with the Prisoner I have ever experienced, want to experience and will experience is the Simpsons episode The Computer Wore Menace Shoes. What!? You mean you never saw "Brainwashed" the THREE PART Pinky & the Brain spoof of The Prisoner!?
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