none said:
Mielr wrote:
What about just printing out flyers and placing them in the blu-ray racks, rather than sticking stickers directly to the boxes? That's not vandalism, as it's not directly marring the packaging?
Yeah this is semi-more legit, make up a one or half page info packet and ask people to hand it out in front of stores selling the product. But stores can claim these people are a nuisance and move you farther and farther away.
What about just surreptitiously placing the flyers next to the boxes in the stores?
One of the problems with standing outside a store (like Wal-Mart, for instance) is, aside from being chased off, that you don't know which people are going inside the store to buy the set, and you could just end up giving out a lot of irrelevant flyers to people.
zombie84 said:
Not to toot my own horn, but would it be worthwhile to involve savestarwars.com in this? I mean, this is sort of the exact thing the page was designed for, as a sort of "wait, what's this about?" advocacy page (well, among other things). I don't know if bringing any heat on it would be bad or not; I'd hate to see it shut down.
Yeah, definitely.
There's no point in preaching to the choir, the people who really need to be targeted now are the ones who are casual fans, but who still love the OOT from when they saw it back in theaters, or on VHS. Maybe they didn't buy the '04 set, and they really weren't aware of all the revisions, or the fact that the revised versions are the only versions on the blu-rays.
We should be able to figure something out that won't be illegal, or get anyone's site shut down.
The bumper sticker idea is good, maybe that combined with flyers tucked between boxes in stores is something that would be OK.
I don't know about the telephone pole sticker idea- that may still be considered vandalism.