04-20-2006, 02:05 AM
One of the fringe benefits of being a decent sized retailer is free samples. It's not like he gets to pick what they send him but I expect that he does get at least a handful of free discs every month if his sales volume is halfway reasonable.
My buddy owns a teeny tiny comic shop (it's only open four days a week and two of those days are half days) and he gets free comics all the time (like ten or so a week) and the occasional anime DVD as well (and he doesn't even sell DVDs). If he's getting these kind of freebies with his super small volume then I imagine that someone selling thousands of DVDs a month is likely to get a fair amount of "preview copies".
My buddy owns a teeny tiny comic shop (it's only open four days a week and two of those days are half days) and he gets free comics all the time (like ten or so a week) and the occasional anime DVD as well (and he doesn't even sell DVDs). If he's getting these kind of freebies with his super small volume then I imagine that someone selling thousands of DVDs a month is likely to get a fair amount of "preview copies".
Gullible isn't in the dictionary.