Aladdin (Blu-ray SteelBook) (Zavvi Exclusive: The Disney Collection #1) [UK]

[Wreck]

Release date: July 8th, 2013
Price: £17.99
Purchase link: Aladdin Sold-Out!
Note: Zavvi Exclusive Limited Edition SteelBook Disney Collection # 1 - includes embossed artwork.
This product is limited to 5000 copies. Region Free.

The others: Zavvi Exclusive: The Disney Collection Blu-ray SteelBooks

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Update 30/06/2013:
Sold out (EU Delivery Only) via Zavvi Outlet for £23.99

EARLY SHIPPING NOTICE / PAYMENTS DUE BY WED, 3rd July
Realise we have shipped this early. We fully understand that this may have resulted in many customers not having the required funds to make payment at the time of shipment. However, we are holding stock for all of these orders and will re-process attempted payment next Thursday. For anyone no longer wanting their reserved copy they will need to cancel their order before that date.

NO FURTHER DISCUSSION ABOUT EBAY SALES, SCALPERS, RESALE AND THE LIKE IN THIS THREAD - Chat about the steel or the movie itself, HAVE FUN. THANK YOU FOR YOUR COOPERATION.

 

[thecardman23]

At time of writing, there are 116 left. 334 sold. About 130 have sold in the last 24 hours, based on when I checked this time yesterday

It'll be interesting to see whether Zavvi Outlet list another batch after these few have sold...


Perhaps somebody should contact BBC Watchdog via Twitter to investigate?

Done!

 

[Slinchafi]

335 sold currently, that's a quick way to make an extra £2k...

 

[paulboland]

why zavvi outlet increased the postage costs for this? 3,99 postage and 1,99 for all other items?

I noticed that also I have asked zavvi to provide me with contact number to speak to senior company manager

 

[jackanape]

Sent them an email about the stock issue. Their reply (after two days):

Hello Mr BLAH BLAH,

Thank you for your message regarding placing an order.

I am sorry we are currently out of stock on this item and I don’t have any availability dates for you. Please continue to check our listings because as soon as we receive more stock these will be updated.

I am very sorry for any inconvenience caused.

If there's anything else we can do please don't hesitate to get in touch and a member of our team will be happy to help.

Kind regards,
Grace


Obviously they do have the stock, as they are selling them through the outlet, so I guess this was just a lie/bad PR. Unless they treat Zavvi Outlet as a totally separate entity? In which case how did they acquire stock of 500 items from this limited run?

 

[pmwhelan]

Are Zavvi breaking any law by putting the price up?

 

[CaptainCoffee]

Can't get much sleazier than this....lets see how much lower Zavvi can stoop.

 

[chilean]

Wait is postage £3.99 per item? It states free P&P in the description :S

 

[Miffed]

Are Zavvi breaking any law by putting the price up?

in a word no sadly not. especially as i imagine that Zavvi and Zavvi outlet are listed as seperate companies under a holding company.

Sent them an email about the stock issue. Their reply (after two days):

Hello Mr BLAH BLAH,

Thank you for your message regarding placing an order.

I am sorry we are currently out of stock on this item and I don’t have any availability dates for you. Please continue to check our listings because as soon as we receive more stock these will be updated.

I am very sorry for any inconvenience caused.

If there's anything else we can do please don't hesitate to get in touch and a member of our team will be happy to help.

Kind regards,
Grace


Obviously they do have the stock, as they are selling them through the outlet, so I guess this was just a lie/bad PR. Unless they treat Zavvi Outlet as a totally separate entity? In which case how did they acquire stock of 500 items from this limited run?

that will be a standard reply to all emails regarding any product being out of stock very probably. and they will have done one of two things to be stocking it in Zavvi outlet, selling them a bulk order upfront when product is first made available or selling them all the cancellations as part of an agreement between the two.
at least thats my take on the matter!!!

totally sucks, but in the end thats business and i cant get cross about it cos if i could do things that that... i probably would!!!

 

[Flip]

Wait is postage £3.99 per item? It states free P&P in the description :S

free p&p to uk only, £3.99 everywhere else

 

[pmwhelan]

I don't see why people are complaining.
This is the free market. This is supply and demand.

If Zavvi want to list it for 500 quid then so be it.
If they find enough buyers then fair play to them.

But as it stands they're flying out the door for 23.99 so it seems that a lot of people think this is a fair price to pay otherwise why would they pay it?

If Zavvi didn't make a profit on steelbooks then they wouldn't do them.
then people would complain that they can't get steelbooks.

I just don't understand it.

 

[lgans316]

Mate,

Agreed but this is going into a debate not only because of the price but also due to canceling of legitimate orders for some customers stating they can't source the item.

 

[Carlos]

Mate,

Agreed but this is going into a debate not only because of the price but also due to canceling of legitimate orders for some customers stating they can't source the item.

Who ?

The only one I see is jimbean and he said "Zavvi just cancelled some of mine without me requesting wtf

 

[mactaylor]

...and the zavvi cancellations went to the outlet store...

 

[lgans316]

Who ?

The only one I see is jimbean and he said "Zavvi just cancelled some of mine without me requesting wtf

There are few in Blu ray forum who received cancelation emails like that.

 

[Carlos]

There are few in Blu ray forum who received cancelation emails like that.

ah ok not seen those.

I see they are now offering 5% discount on 2 or more.

 

[snooloui]

Are Zavvi breaking any law by putting the price up?

No. In regards to cancellations, an agreement is only made when your card is charged. Before that they have no obligation to fufil orders. In regards to increasing the price, well they can charge whatever price they like. There are no laws governing what a company can or can't charge.

 

[pmwhelan]

Mate,

Agreed but this is going into a debate not only because of the price but also due to canceling of legitimate orders for some customers stating they can't source the item.

Well if so then that's a completely different issue.

 

[jimmyv]

Folks Zavvi is probably just selling their cancellations. I really doubt they got "a new shipment" lol. We all agree that Aladdin now seemed like a great deal by comparion. I'm guessing Disney let the price on that one slip through the cracks and were more stern on a higher price point for JB and LM. Why would Zavvi put their Aladdin cancellations back on the site for 17.99 when JB and LM are still up for 22.99? Those still aren't "truly sold out" yet btw, so maybe they are trying a different approach with Aladdin.

Selling them in the market at a higher profit just means they are basically capitalizing on some of the market hype. There is no law that says a company cannot do this.

However, there are two main issues I have with what Zavvi is doing with stock management from a fairness standpoint. And I think this is the real problem that is at the root.

1. They are not correctly reporting when the item is truly sold out. If they know there are 500+ cancellations that are now available to sell, they should not report the item as sold out yet. They should recalculate, add the cancellations back into stock, and sell all the cancellations until it is truly sold out for real. This would save on boatloads of confusion and suspicion. Zavvi is screwing up in this area big time.

2. They do not seem to be saving enough (or any?) stock for replacement due to damaged or misplaced orders. Bad move to sell them all off IMO and then tell their customers to "return the damaged item for refund". That's basically telling their customers... "Sorry you got a dented steelbook. Deal with it."

 

[Strikeman]

Are Zavvi breaking any law by putting the price up?

Surely there must be some fair practice law in place that doesn’t allow retailers who have a monopoly over certain markets (exclusive titles) to charge extortionate amounts like this??

When I say an "extortionate amounts", I am defining it as a comparable product manufactured to a similar specification sold at a much lower price, for example:

Close Encounters Zavvi Exclusive - £14.99
Aladdin Zavvi Exclusive - £23.99

There's probably very little difference in cost to manufacture these 2 titles, and yet one is priced at £14.99 and the other is priced with a 60% mark up just because the demand is there for it. Isn’t this classed as unethical profiteering?

What are people supposed to do in this situation, where they want the product and haven't got the option to get it anywhere else? I suppose we will just have to wait for Zavvi to keep inflating prices until they are high enough for us to finally decide that we aren’t happy to pay it.

I'm all for store exclusives but only if the price is relative to the print run and comparable to other print runs of similar quality items (similar steelbooks). A good example of this is The Entertainment Store print runs, whilst they are priced high at £28 or so, the print run is much smaller at 500 - 2,000 (way below Aladdin’s 5k). I would expect their costs to come down the higher the print runs become, this is yet to be seen though.

The counter argument to all of this I suppose is the eBay scalper issue, and that eBay scalpers are essentially playing the same game, fuelling the fire and helping to justify/set Zavvi’s price increase. Whether eBay sellers should fall under the same ethical codes as major retailers like Zavvi is another question in itself....


Not sure where that rant came from, maybe my new found Ninja status has gone to my head!

 

[jimbean]

So I a had a few of these preordered, today out of nowhere they decided to cancel my order!
So I contacted them & this was the response.

Hi


Thank you for placing order ********** with us.

We are sorry to inform you that we are unable to send your order for the Aladdin - Zavvi Exclusive Limited Edition Steelbook as our website is available for Social & Domestic use and stock of this item is limited per customer.

This order has now been cancelled, We are sorry for any inconvenience this might have caused you.

If there is anything else that we can do, then please do not hesitate to get in touch and a member of our team will be happy to help.

Kind regards,
Dave

Zavvi Customer Service Team

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