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[pugmagician]

Originally posted by Lasher
Who's arguing? I was not aware that stating my distaste for a shipping fee and comparing it to other stores I have shopped in constituted arguing. And I am not arguing in any case with Junkie Joe. This is a forum. The discussion is with anyone who wants to participate. Junkie Joe seems to be posting a lot in this thread, but that doesn't mean we're arguing. jeez. You people need to simmer down, and stop taking offense to everything.

Also, Terrex, just because people on another site don't complain doesn't mean I shouldn't. And some of us aren't so rich that we can afford to buy many dvds at once.

And yes, I am grateful to all pirate distributors dor getting to product out there at a better price than the non-pirate product (well, duh, I mean that's the whole point of pirate dvds, isn't it?) but I also keep in mind that the nature of the pirate anime industry is that the dvds are copied and translated and put together for next to nothing, many cases very little care or expense was put into it, and the distributors sell the product for huge profit percentages. I am grateful, but I do realise that Import Anime is making a nice sized profit and isn't doing this out of the kindness of their hearts. That's the nature of the industry.

JJ isn't making near as much as you'd think. If you'd stop and think about it JJ is just the middle man. He pays FX, Mac, MI, etc.... to get the DVDs here then he sells them for a buck or two more a DVD to us (which is a lot less of a markup than thier competitors). Hell in order to get it from the distrubutors for the kind of prices he gets he has to put alot of money into each order. Most manufactures won't give you a decent price unless you spend hundreds of dollars on pretty much each order there. I mean I even e-mailed MAC's website and they told me basicly that I had to order at least 20 DVDs in order to get them for the same price I pay for here, and basicly a buttload more to get them cheaper. I mean regardless I could probably talk them down in price if I ordered like 70-80 DVDs from them but that's still alot of money.