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Originally posted by: jimbo
A boycott won't work. It can't work. The majority of people don't care. Me for example already have the DVDs preordered. Id give that only 5% of the people who would buy the DVDs would boycott them as a result of the lack of the original versions. Even thats an optimistic estimate.
So cancel that pre-order. I don't have any numbers to back this one up, but a 5% loss in sales is big money. A quick search just told me that Phantom Menace sold over 2.2 million copies its first week on the shelves. If the Special Edition boxed set does as well, and everyone who signed the petition, including you and me, doesn't buy it, that's a loss of about $7,700,000 in expected sales. If you let the folks whos job it is to get our money know that, if they do something different, they can have that seven million, they might do something to try and get it. If not, then wait untill the price has dropped or it shows up at Costco and buy it at a discount and you still win. If we win, you win. If we loose, you still win. You can't loose.
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