Hi guys I’m new here and I dont know where to post this. ( no its not an invite request bet thats what you thought. )
There seems to be a guy on eBay with a listing right now for the star wars despecialized trilogy probably with the iso types with menus and hes also including tn1 and harmys 35mm scans as well.
He is claiming that the content is free and that there is an honor system that he abides by. This guy is a joke. He claims that the 200 bucks hes charging is just for the cost of the materials and the time it took him to create the set and edit it together.
When really hea probably done very little editing if hes used nvjcs isos . Also printing to discs and printing out disc inserts isnt too expensive or time consuming.
I estimate what hes done costing him no more than about 40 to 50 dollars not the 200 asking price.
Whichever way he describes it hes selling what he shouldnt be selling. Just a heads up and I have reported him.
I went ahead and made myself a set. It has cost me about 125+ to make with professional printing, buying criterion cases, the blank blu-rays, etc… I asked ronwlim here on the site to see if he could make the same box set that he has produced and he quoted me $200. So to ask for $200 isn’t that unreasonable.
I think you are overestimating his costs. What the listing that Captain_Danielsan mentioned talks about is not a “box set” but just a set of blu-ray/DVD cases with burned/printed discs.
I have completed five copies of my box set and my total costs per set (excluding the box) at this point are as follows:
BD50 x 4 = $8.00
BD25 x 6 = $6.00
DVD9 x 1 = $1.00
Criterion Blu-Ray Cases x 4 = $4.00
Paper = $2.00
Ink = $1.00
Total = $22.00
The materials cost of my slipacase box is probably another $3.00 - 4.00 per set so even if I included that the total would be under $30.00
That is a LOT of markup to get to $190.00 - $200.00 per set on eBay.
However - even if it was just a few dollars of markup that would be too much when the expressed wishes of the fans who created them are that they would be shared for free and never sold for profit.