Camelot Cutouts -- On Sale April 27 at Laurel Centre!
JSBecraft
My store's cutouts are in and ready for sale. We got 25 boxes in, or
roughly 1000 cutouts, as we expected.
They will be put out for sale on Saturday, April 27 at 10am as promised.
I took a peek through them, and the rumors about True Lies and The Mask
being in there were true... I also saw some cool older stuff, like the
widescreen M*A*S*H, the CAV Raiders PS (very limited qty.), and the Jaws
PS (very limited qty.), the Poltergeist LBX boxed set! and on and on...
There were a lot of really great discs, so if you can make it down, I can
almost guarantee it'll be worth your while. Most of these discs will be
$19.88 or less. Probably $15.88 was the most common price point.
Anyway, hope to see you there!
I cannot stress this enough:
COME EARLY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Jeff Becraft
Sales Manager
Camelot Music
Laurel Centre
(301) 490-7709
*****NOTE: The fact that my store has received new cutouts in no way
indicates that other stores in the company will be receiving the same
titles, nor that they will receive cutouts at all.
P.S. If you are interested in receiving notification whenever our
location (Laurel Centre) has new cutouts or sales on our existing stock,
please e-mail me with the following info:
LAST NAME
FIRST NAME
STREET ADDRESS
CITY
STATE
ZIP
PHONE NUMBER
ALTERNATE PHONE NUMBER
FAX NUMBER
E-MAIL ADDRESS
Also, please list any particular categories of discs you may be interested
in, such as karaoke, Criterion, or Disney, etc...
Gordon Mulcaster
In article <4l8ebk$3...@newsbf02.news.aol.com>, JSBecraft writes:
> My store's cutouts are in and ready for sale. We got 25 boxes in, or
> roughly 1000 cutouts, as we expected.
> They will be put out for sale on Saturday, April 27 at 10am as promised.
I never thought I'd want to live on the East Coast...
I called two of the Camelots in Seattle and they both have no idea on when
they are getting more cutouts, and they are both planning on getting out of
the LD market...
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gor...@portal.ca
what is it
MrBoylan
<gor...@portal.ca> writes:
>In article <4l8ebk$3...@newsbf02.news.aol.com>, JSBecraft writes:
>
>> My store's cutouts are in and ready for sale. We got 25 boxes in, or
>> roughly 1000 cutouts, as we expected.
>> They will be put out for sale on Saturday, April 27 at 10am as
promised.
>
>
Where is Laurel Centre, by the way? Worth a drive from NYC?
Later,
Chris Boylan
JSBecraft
writes:
>Where is this at?? I would be willing to drive to get there!
Take 95 South of Baltimore.
Before you get to Washington, D.C., check for signs for Laurel
Take 198 East toward Laurel
Go about three miles
Turn south onto Rt. 1
Go about a mile
We're on the right
Laurel Centre is a two-story in door mall.
We are upstairs right next to JCPenney.
-- Jeff Becraft
JSBecraft
writes:
>Where is Laurel Centre, by the way? Worth a drive from NYC?
Long drive from NYC, but we have a customer who comes down from New Jersey
every time we have a sale, and, well, he ain't complaining! :o)
JSBecraft
Jon Jorden
someone please buy a copy of the MASH WS and mail it to me! *whine*
My store got one box filled with CRAP.
Well there was the Rescuers but i really don't care to own that.
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Jerry
Jerry
William I. James, Jr.
Jerry wrote:
>
> What is a cutout?
> Jerry
A discontinued disk. The cover or box will be notched or punched with a
hole. The prices of the disk are also way below the original retail
price.
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Mark W. Carver
Well I just got back from my VERY first Camelot Cutouts sale at the
Laurel, MD store. I arrived there at 9:20AM and there was about 20
people already there. By the time the gates opened there was to many
people to count. I noticed the manager took off running when he opened
the gate and the people made a mad dash for the boxes. This reminded
me of the time I went to a Paul McCartney's 'Wings Over America'
concert at the Capitol Center and all the tickets where General
Admission, that is no reserved seating. Anyway, I was very pleased,
picked up 8 movies for $105. Purchased a copy 'True Lies - Director's
Pan & Scan Edition', 'Texas', 'The Mask', 'Highlander 2', 'The Jazz
Singer', 'Rock A Doodle', 'The Mighty Ducks', and 'Disney's Robin
Hood'. I could purchased more but I made a point of trying not to
spend more than $100. By the way, I've only been a LD owner for 1
month and I already own 25 movies. Most if not all have been purchased
used from fellow internet people, much thanks.
JSBecraft
In article <4ltmce$q...@crash.microserve.net>, mca...@cyberia.com (Mark W.
Carver) writes:
Hey Mark!
You forgot to mention the totally free movie popcorn! We went through
seven huge bags of the stuff in the first few hours.
Obviously, that's what people were really there for, right? :o)
Andrew Quan
William I. James, Jr. (ja...@qns.com) wrote:
What dealers get these discs. It seems that Camolot gets most of these
discs. Are they available to any dealer?
JSBecraft
So, what other things did everyone find?
Let's hear it.
AlenSmithe
Mr Becraft, PLEASE come out here and take over the Sacramento store!!! Or
at least clone yourself and have a clone do it! The people there don't
have a clue!!!
JSBecraft
In article <4m1vj3$f...@newsbf02.news.aol.com>, alens...@aol.com
(AlenSmithe) writes:
I would be happy to (and so would I) but myself and myself are already
working very hard here. Perhaps you should move back east?
Jeff Becraft
Sales Manager, Camelot Music Laurel Centre
E-mail us to get notification of upcoming laserdisc sales and special
offers, especially new cutouts!
*** Opinions expressed herein belong to Mr. Becraft, and may or may not be
those of Camelot Music, Inc.
JSBecraft
In article <4lv5f6$f...@milo.vcn.bc.ca>, aq...@vcn.bc.ca (Andrew Quan)
writes:
>What dealers get these discs. It seems that Camolot gets most of these
>discs. Are they available to any dealer?
>
>
I suppose any dealer is capable of getting cutouts, but I think it
involves a bidding system, and the higher the bid gets, the lower the
profit margins, so due to the risk involved, a lot of chains probably
don't buy them.
Jeff Reis
My local Camelot is one of the higher-volume LD stores and their last
few cutout shipments have had some cool stuff but at very high prices.
There was a widescreen Short Cuts (not Criterion)...but for $49.88!!!
It wasn't punched but still...its label was marked "clearance LD". I
may have payed that for the Criterion, but not the regular issue.
Other sightings...nothing I wanted to buy.
The Stand box $29.88
Twin Peaks box Vol 4--49.88 (tempting)
Sinatra miniseries--29.88
Marliene (sp?) Dietrich df--29.88
Churchill bio---29.88
Return of Spinal Tap--15.88 (sorta tempting...anybody have this?)
Speed Racer (2 episodes)--$15.88
American Dream (docu.)-12.88
Abba Gold import--29.88
some Beatles live import--29.88
Leprechaun (the first one)--15.88 (hah!)
Old Empire SB widescreen--29.88
Nothing In Common-- 12.88
Ape Man:hosted by Walter Cronkite--29.88
Even crap like Robot Wars and Puppet Master 3 is tagged at 12.88
now...like it was flying off the shelves at 5.88.
One of the employees told me that some guy had picked over the
shipment pretty badly. I guess it's better I don't know what I missed.
He had to take out a loan to buy a pile of discs, or so the employee
said. Another salesguy there said they do have a call list, so I got
on it...for whatever that's worth after the employees and friends go
thru 'em. :-(
He said there were some Jurassic Parks that I missed too. arrgh...
A few weeks ago I got Westworld widescreen and a Rollerball P&S for
12.88 apiece. Also Fantasia CLV for 12.88. Not bad.
Granted some of these prices are good, and many are not punched, but
it seems like cutouts were 5.88 for a while, then crept up to 12.88,
then 15.88. Are the days of decent stuff for 6 or 10 bucks over??? I
haven't seen any Robin Hood (Disney), True Lies or The Mask yet...what
are these going for?
I feel a follow-up from Jeff Becraft coming on... :-)
--WJR
AlenSmithe
I've noticed great variances in prices for a while. The stores say they
come in already priced, then they get lowered every few months when no one
buys them. I just got 14 discs at the Great Mall of the bay area
yesterday for $4.88 each, a lot of them had a $9.88 price tag but they
were really $4.88, guess it would have cost too much to put new tags on
all of them, but under that tag was a $12.88 and then a $15.88. $50 for
the Criterion Short Cuts isn't too bad considering it retails for $125, I
got it on sale at Tower for about $100.
David. E. Bath
Andrew Quan wrote:
> What dealers get these discs. It seems that Camolot gets most of these
> discs. Are they available to any dealer?
Here in the Dallas area in addition to Camelots, a local audio/video
dealer gets them in about as often as Camelot, and the Incredible
Universe has them also.
Several mail-order places get them too, such as Ken Crane, Sight
and Sound, Laser Craze, and Laser Exchange.
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These are my opinions, all mine, and mine alone.
Bryant Frazer
Jeff Reis (gr...@iglou.com) wrote:
: said. Another salesguy there said they do have a call list, so I got
: on it...for whatever that's worth after the employees and friends go
: thru 'em. :-(
My local independent LD dealer used to have special cutout LD sales long
before Camelot moved into the neighborhood (we're talking six, seven years
ago), and I've moved away, but I'll bet he still has them. One of the
rules of the game was that employees and friends were *not* allowed to
skim the cream off the top of the cutout selection, nor were they allowed
to pick and choose when the rental overstock was put out for sale cheap.
(After the cutout sale had been on for a couple of hours, of course, all
of the discs were fair game for the employees.)
This resulted in some frustration among the employees, but since the
store owner was a great guy they managed to live with the policies. And
the great deals were put where they belong -- in the hands of customers.
I don't begrudge Camelot anything, and I'm glad they do the job they do
with LD cutouts ... but I hope they're not being patronized at the
expense of local dealers who supported the format for years and helped
build an informed and enthusiastic core audience. (It's unfortunate that
we live in an era where "local video dealer" usually means Blockbuster.)
Hell, I never bought a disc from Ken Crane's until I moved to an area
where we have *no* knowledgeable LD dealers.
-bf-
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JSBecraft
In article <4m779d$8...@newsbf02.news.aol.com>, alens...@aol.com
(AlenSmithe) writes:
This discovery at Great Mall of the Bay Area is in keeping with the info I
mentioned last week. I understand that this location is getting sent any
"unsellable" cutouts from other stores on the west coast. They may arrive
there at stupidly low prices, so get over there and enjoy!
-- Jeff
Tony Ledford
alens...@aol.com (AlenSmithe) writes:
> I've noticed great variances in prices for a while. The stores say they
> come in already priced, then they get lowered every few months when no one
> buys them. I just got 14 discs at the Great Mall of the bay area
> yesterday for $4.88 each, a lot of them had a $9.88 price tag but they
> were really $4.88, guess it would have cost too much to put new tags on
> all of them, but under that tag was a $12.88 and then a $15.88. $50 for
> the Criterion Short Cuts isn't too bad considering it retails for $125, I
> got it on sale at Tower for about $100.
It evidently is kind of unpredictable; got the Criterion
Short Cuts in the cutout bin at a Camelot in Charlotte
(but no punch) about six weeks ago for 29.88. Same trip
and store, Criterion Shampoo (with punch) for 5.88 (and
they had several). Another Camelot in Charlotte (same day),
MCA/Universal Mummy films box set (no punch) 29.88, True Lies
(LBX, but they had the P&S too) THX 19.88. Spectrum (Camelot
for Yuppies) in Charlotte, same day, Fantasia CAV 29.88.
All in all, a good day :-)
al...@aimnet.com
Don't bother with the Camalot at the Great Mall. I was there last
week and did not even find a single title that was worth my while even
if it was given to me for free! I talked to a few of the employees
and they said that they have not received laserdisc cutouts in 8
months. They just have a pile of junk discs. Let me know if I am
wrong and if they received a new shipment this week...
Altaf Kassam
al...@aimnet.com
On 1 May 1996 18:31:10 -0400, jsbe...@aol.com (JSBecraft) wrote:
>In article <4m779d$8...@newsbf02.news.aol.com>, alens...@aol.com
>(AlenSmithe) writes:
>
>>I've noticed great variances in prices for a while. The stores say they
>>come in already priced, then they get lowered every few months when no
>one
>>buys them. I just got 14 discs at the Great Mall of the bay area
>>yesterday for $4.88 each, a lot of them had a $9.88 price tag but they
>>were really $4.88, guess it would have cost too much to put new tags on
>>all of them, but under that tag was a $12.88 and then a $15.88. $50 for
>>the Criterion Short Cuts isn't too bad considering it retails for $125, I
>>got it on sale at Tower for about $100.
>>
>>
>
Spartacus
In article <4m0re0$3...@newsbf02.news.aol.com>, jsbe...@aol.com
(JSBecraft) wrote:
Is that in Laurel, Mississippi??? Do you know Kurt Dietz?
<spar...@wolsi.com>
JSBecraft
In article <spartacus-030...@sl7.wolsi.com>, spar...@wolsi.com
(Spartacus) writes:
>> -- Jeff Becraft
>> Sales Manager
>> Camelot Music
>> Laurel Centre
>
>Is that in Laurel, Mississippi??? Do you know Kurt Dietz?
><spar...@wolsi.com>
>
>
Sorry, Laurel, MD
Don't know him.