The Handmaiden (Blu-ray SteelBook) [Korea]

Feb 1, 2012
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Netherlands
Release date: July 30, 2018
Purchase links: Plainarchive: Quarter Slip - Full Slip Type A - Full Slip Type B - Triple Pack
Also available at: Novamedia | Yesasia | Kimchidvd
Price: $41.79 (Quarter Slip) - $49.49 (Type A) - $47.29 (Type B) - $132.29 (Triple Pack)
Notes: Steelbook has full gloss finish.

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only 2 months after release nobody gave a fcuk for this release for 4 years.. all the other stuff is in your mind only, espcially the holy grail part.. its (very) hard to find, yes.. and now the very few people that actually look for it, get milked heavily, like with all other pseudograils..

you can really justify any purchase by your logic ("its so rare and a cult film, etc etc").. but i guess theres nothing wrong with eventually paying a disgusting price if you really want it and are looking for it for so long
I honestly don't understand your point here and why this particular topic for this film triggers such a vitriolic response. There is no defintion for what a holy grail is or which item deserves to be expensive and which doesn't passt the hatredhorror test. I'm just comparing the trajectory of this particular release with similar releases of a similar release date: Things like "Her" Kimchi, "Eternal Sunshine" Kimchi, "Oldboy" (Plain Archive), "I saw the Devil" Plain archive are all "popular arthouse movies" and the steelbook editions are nice and they are rare, but you can ALWAYS find copies, sometimes even in auctions, where you get them for great prices. I'm talking about NOW and maybe over the last 1-2 years. The Handmaiden (all edtions, but you see the occasional 1/4 slip and FullSlip B pop up) is a different beast and I cannot remember the last "cheap" copy that sold on eBay and Full Slip A has actually sold for $400 and that wasn't even sealed. I asked wdpung a while back for one and he did what he usually does, which is saying he will check the secondary market in Korea and THEN has copies available with a high markup quickly. He got me FullSlip B for a somewhat fair price indeed, but never mentioned FullSlip A again, until he suddenly put one up on his website for $900!!!

I'm not quite sure what we are areguing about. If this item is not rare/hard to find/expensive - cool, where are they though? If you find me an affordable copy of FS A, I'll pay you a nice finders fee and tell everbody on here I was super wrong and it's super easy to find and change my user name to CheLutzo1 :)
 
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I honestly don't understand your point here and why this particular topic for this film triggers such a vitriolic response. There is no defintion for what a holy grail is or which item deserves to be expensive and which doesn't passt the hatredhorror test. I'm just comparing the trajectory of this particular release with similar releases of a similar release date: Things like "Her" Kimchi, "Eternal Sunshine" Kimchi, "Oldboy" (Plain Archive), "I saw the Devil" Plain archive are all "popular arthouse movies" and the steelbook editions are nice and they are rare, but you can ALWAYS find copies, sometimes even in auctions, where you get them for great prices. I'm talking about NOW and maybe over the last 1-2 years. The Handmaiden (all edtions, but you see the occasional 1/4 slip and FullSlip B pop up) is a different beast and I cannot remember the last "cheap" copy that sold on eBay and Full Slip A has actually sold for $400 and that wasn't even sealed. I asked wdpung a while back for one and he did what he usually does, which is saying he will check the secondary market in Korea and THEN has copies available with a high markup quickly. He got me FullSlip B for a somewhat fair price indeed, but never mentioned FullSlip A again, until he suddenly put one up on his website for $900!!!

I'm not quite sure what we are areguing about. If this item is not rare/hard to find/expensive - cool, where are they though? If you find me an affordable copy of FS A, I'll pay you a nice finders fee and tell everbody on here I was super wrong and it's super easy to find and change my user name to CheLutzo1 :)
its alright, its your money.. sorry if i came across toxic.. if its worth that much money to you, then its worth that much money to you.. simple as that.. running around and telling everyone how rare and great it is, will not exactly lower the price tho ;)

but in my personal experience such "personal grails" end up being yet another spine on the shelf, so i stopped bothering (too much), but who am i to tell you what to do
 
Wasn't me.... :sweat:
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its alright, its your money.. sorry if i came across toxic.. if its worth that much money to you, then its worth that much money to you.. simple as that.. running around and telling everyone how rare and great it is, will not exactly lower the price tho ;)

but in my personal experience such "personal grails" end up being yet another spine on the shelf, so i stopped bothering (too much), but who am i to tell you what to do
 
I found the film convoluted and gratuitous. this edition is beautiful but I have shifted my attitude away from paying over the odds for an edition which costs twice the price of a standard edition. in the end it ends up on the shelf.

nobody is going to come along and grade your collection, and its not as if I would take the steels/ editions off the shelves and admire them.

£5-8 different between editions is no big deal, but importing with this massive mark up in price makes little sense to me now.
 
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I found the film convoluted and gratuitous. this edition is beautiful but I have shifted my attitude away from paying over the odds for an edition which costs twice the price of a standard edition. in the end it ends up on the shelf.

nobody is going to come along and grade your collection, and its not as if I would take the steels/ editions off the shelves and admire them.

£5-8 different between editions is no big deal, but importing with this massive mark up in price makes little sense to me now.
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This was one of the rare ones where I remember waking up and getting ready for work, forgot about the pre order, just happened to check my email and saw the pre order, and was like "Oh yeah, that." and got one. Who knew they'd be so ridiculously priced?
 
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