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Post by shallacatop on Oct 18, 2020 11:02:03 GMT
To be fair, they’re not saying they’re not an equally valid purchase. What they’re saying is that they’ve looked at the sales figures and are noticing an even larger gap between the sales of physical and digital releases. They’ve not gone all out and canned the CD releases, instead they’re labelling them as “collector’s editions”, as there’s no guarantee they’ll receive a repressing. I don’t think there’s anything wrong with that; it’s a good way to ensure physical releases whilst not being worse off by having excess hanging around the warehouse. Basically learning from their mistake, which doesn’t happen with Big Finish all that often! They let us know when stock is getting closer to being out of print, though I don’t think that’s happened for any recent releases, except Class which are intentionally limited. I totally get what you mean, but to me it just feels like a small minutia insinuation, and that doesn't 100% sit well with me. Oh well.  Yeah, I do see where you’re coming from. For me it’s just their way of justifying why they may suddenly say they’re close to being out of print of, say, Hearts of Darkness just a few months after it comes out. They’ve almost sold their initial print run and based on previous War Master sets the physical sales tend to trail off, so they can’t justify a reprint. Obviously a hypothetical example, but hopefully you get the picture. |
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Post by theillusiveman on Oct 18, 2020 12:47:59 GMT
I totally get what you mean, but to me it just feels like a small minutia insinuation, and that doesn't 100% sit well with me. Oh well. Yeah, I do see where you’re coming from. For me it’s just their way of justifying why they may suddenly say they’re close to being out of print of, say, Hearts of Darkness just a few months after it comes out. They’ve almost sold their initial print run and based on previous War Master sets the physical sales tend to trail off, so they can’t justify a reprint. Obviously a hypothetical example, but hopefully you get the picture. Well i wish they would make the Collectors Editions seem more special with say more artwork and stuff even a booklet like they use to do that way it would make CD purchases seem more special, i know highly unlikely now
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Post by The Brigadier on Oct 19, 2020 11:30:35 GMT
Ok.. 2 things..
CD.. Not "collectors edition cd" they are still an equally valid physical purchase.. GGRRR
Summer 2021, what month(s) is that in UK? I will need to up my purchases between now and then.
:-)
Depends if Jason was referring to Astronomical Summer (21st June 2021 to 22nd September 2021) or Meteorological Summer (1st June to 31st August). If I was in your shoes I'd play it safe and get my purchases done by the end of May. |
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Post by number13 on Oct 19, 2020 11:33:15 GMT
Ok.. 2 things..
CD.. Not "collectors edition cd" they are still an equally valid physical purchase.. GGRRR
Summer 2021, what month(s) is that in UK? I will need to up my purchases between now and then.
:-)
Depends if Jason was referring to Astronomical Summer (21st June 2021 to 22nd September 2021) or Meteorological Summer (1st June to 31st August). If I was in your shoes I'd play it safe and get my purchases done by the end of May. Summer doesn't always happen in the U.K. so it would have been better if he'd said an actual month.  And whose summer? As many of the most interested contributors on this are from Australia perhaps BF have localised the announcement and they mean next December 1st? Or 21st...?
Attempting to be slightly more helpful, really it could mean anytime between June and August.
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Post by The Brigadier on Oct 19, 2020 12:00:50 GMT
Depends if Jason was referring to Astronomical Summer (21st June 2021 to 22nd September 2021) or Meteorological Summer (1st June to 31st August). If I was in your shoes I'd play it safe and get my purchases done by the end of May. Summer doesn't always happen in the U.K. so it would have been better if he'd said an actual month. And whose summer? As many of the most interested contributors on this are from Australia perhaps BF have localised the announcement and they mean next December 1st? Or 21st...?
Attempting to be slightly more helpful, really it could mean anytime between June and August.
I'd almost forgotten your eye for the minutiae...😁 |
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Post by number13 on Oct 19, 2020 12:33:19 GMT
Summer doesn't always happen in the U.K. so it would have been better if he'd said an actual month. And whose summer? As many of the most interested contributors on this are from Australia perhaps BF have localised the announcement and they mean next December 1st? Or 21st...? Attempting to be slightly more helpful, really it could mean anytime between June and August.
I'd almost forgotten your eye for the minutiae...😁 Just trying to be helpful, as usual... Welcome back! |
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Post by pawntake on Oct 20, 2020 12:49:34 GMT
Just to further confuse the issue!! In the UK the clocks go forward 1 hour at 1am on the last Sunday in March, and back 1 hour at 2am on the last Sunday in October. The period when the clocks are 1 hour ahead is called British Summer Time (BST). There's more daylight in the evenings and less in the mornings  |
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