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Topic: Ordering new releases at CHC
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Fabrizio Mosca
Master Film Handler
Posts: 346
From: Milano, Italy
Registered: Jan 2004
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posted May 18, 2013 07:54 AM
As far as I understood in these years I've been a customer from CHC, they don't usually have lots of new prints in shop. What happens is that they have the first batch of prints and then, once they have finished them, they order it when needed. Times may be long from ordering, as they need to have at least two orders in order to have a film printed (the lab prints two copies at the same time, it's not possible to have only one printed), but they always give you the print you order from them.
Also Derann, some times, had the same way of proceeding, but Derann usually had a bigger number of prints in stock, so you were able to receive them right after your order was put.
OF course this doesn't match if you want to have a print right after your order, and I understand it may be frustraiting or make you angry, but hey... we're collectors and sometimes you wait years before finding the prints you're looking for, so why not wait for some time after placing an order for a new copy ![[Smile]](smile.gif)
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Osi Osgood
Film God
Posts: 10204
From: Mountian Home, ID.
Registered: Jul 2005
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posted May 18, 2013 12:41 PM
at least, when it comes to new prints of features, shorts, ect. (and especially with features), these are not printed one at a time, but at least two copies and so, with the investment that it costs to make a feature print in and of itself, Phil (and other possibly existing super 8 producers/distributors), isn't going to inv est in a printof a feature unless ....
the buyer already has cash in hand and has paid in advance. Phil is very good at getting your print to you, though the time to get the print CAN vary.
There's the potential of that other print being able to sale sometimes in the very near future.
I know that the collector would rather that Phil had the brand new print already in stock, (as we are all rather into getting it right now when we have the itch to get it!), but the realities of making brand new prints don't allow for that.
OSI
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Hugh Thompson Scott
Film God
Posts: 3063
From: Gt. Clifton,Cumbria,England
Registered: Jan 2012
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posted May 20, 2013 02:47 PM
I appreciate all the hard work that goes into these releases Doug,
and for a lot of folks,it's well worth the wait for a favourite film.
For me though, I think the initial outlay,coupled with customs
charges (if brought from USA), I won't include postage costs as
someone has to bring it, does tend to jack up the price of the item
which if I'm honest would have to be a very special movie to warrant it, and the movies of the past few years aren't in the
"film I must have" league.
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Osi Osgood
Film God
Posts: 10204
From: Mountian Home, ID.
Registered: Jul 2005
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posted May 21, 2013 12:29 PM
Well, we have been a rather insane lot for years, haven't we, paying more than top dollar form what we could get digitally for a fiver?
... and I wouldn't have it any other way. Though I must say, if I want one of the newer releases coming out today, I literally have to get one second hand, as ...
1. Can't afford a brand new feature these days.
2. Lets face it, new prints these days are like cars. You drive it off the lot and it's just dropped a few thousand right there. The same for the new super 8 print.
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