I guess Arrow might have strongly miscalculated the sales potential of these titles (plus, even Hellgate and Frogtown 1000 copies of each sold out pretty quickly too). Hopefully, it is more a sign of sky-rocketting success and recognition than a really huge screw up in batch size calculation.
In France, we do have had some nice limited editions in the past months. Some of them sold out (sometimes pretty quickly like Night of the Hunter), but others are still in stock months later.
Gaumont did a very nice 50th anniversary collector's edition of Les tontons flingueurs. 1000 copies only while some people (I think the retailers) told them to do more because 1000 wouldn't be enough.
Well, this was in November, and as for today, there's still plenty in stock everywhere...
zedz wrote:That these editions are selling out (or near enough) pre-release suggests that word has got out about the label's QC and reliability. They're certainly one of the labels I feel most secure about blind buying from at the moment.
I do believe the seizable improvement of their QC and CS services have been very well noted everywhere, and has been a real game changer for them. I'm still a bit worried about Stray Cat Rock, due to their Japanese titles having a wrong color-space, but otherwise, I'm blind buying from Arrow like never before.
They really rose to a very high level of quality, and I can only hope it's paying in sales for them (it seems so), that they will keep on like this, and even more : that it will drive other labels (or, let's say, the video market in general) to go into the same high quality direction (ah, such a nice utopia).