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Postby Ephraim on July 11th, 2007, 1:28 pm

Ship the discs back. They received them today (the 11th) and they shipped me:

Happy Feet
Dreamgirls (Special Collectors Edition)
Dreamgirls (Special Collectors Edition) Bonus Disc
Catch and Release

My remaining list is:

1 Notes on A Scandal
2 Astronaut Farmer, The
3 Music and Lyrics
4 Pan^s Labyrinth (Special Edition)
5 Miss Potter
6 French Connection (Collector^s Edition)
7 Goodfellas
8 In the Heat of the Night
9 11:14
10 Blood Diamond (Special Edition)
11 Comedians of Comedy, The
12 Escape to Canada
13 Paperclips
14 Souvenir of Canada
15 Passionate Gay Classics Disc 1
16 Passionate Gay Classics Disc 2
17 Passionate Gay Classics Disc 3
18 Breach
19 Blue Collar Comedy Tour, One for the Road

Note that I removed the Big Lewbowski because Zip shipped it from my parked list. And I added the Astronaut Farmer (as second on the list). So I got shipped 3, 4, 5 and 6 from the list.
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Postby paul61 on July 17th, 2007, 10:28 pm

Just a quick note: Premieres has gone a long way to end the "clunkiness" of their web site by adding very cool drag-and-drop functionality for rearranging the order of the Flick List.
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Postby Ephraim on July 18th, 2007, 9:42 am

I noticed that today.

My DVDs were shipped back on Monday and Tuesday. My list has changed since *SOMEONE* else added and moved some titles around. (Happens in relationships)

Top 20 on the list....

Notes on A Scandal
Astronaut Farmer, The
300 (Special Edition)
Pan^s Labyrinth (Special Edition)
Miss Potter
French Connection (Collector^s Edition)
Goodfellas
In the Heat of the Night
Blood Diamond (Special Edition)
Music and Lyrics
11:14
Comedians of Comedy, The
Escape to Canada
Paperclips
Breach
Blue Collar Comedy Tour, One for the Road
Dungeons & Dragons: Wrath of the Dragon God
Premonition
Big Nothing
Freedom Writers

Let's see what ships this week. I really want to see Notes on a Scandal.
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Postby Ephraim on July 23rd, 2007, 1:30 pm

Turn around time seems to the biggest problem I'm having with Premiers. They received my discs today and sent out 4 more. But that means that it's a 12 day turn around on discs, so 4 discs out is only giving me 8 discs a month.

They shipped these today (the 23rd)

1. Notes on A Scandal
2. Astronaut Farmer, The
4. Pan^s Labyrinth (Special Edition)
6. French Connection (Collector^s Edition)

I wonder how long it would have taken ZIP to send me these titles.
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Postby YKdvd on July 23rd, 2007, 1:54 pm

Ephraim wrote:1. Notes on A Scandal
4. Pan^s Labyrinth (Special Edition)

I wonder how long it would have taken ZIP to send me these titles.

FWIW, I've actually got "Notes" and "Pan's Labyrinth" out from ZIP right now. I never really had them in my Top 10, though - "Pan" shipped July 6 from the #9 spot after a couple of passovers at #13, while "Notes" shipped from #1 on June 25 after a few passovers at higher spots the previous couple of months.
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Postby Ephraim on July 28th, 2007, 5:24 pm

Once Premieres shipped disks to me, I unparked the remaining titles until the next time Premieres can ship to me. Zip actually shipped Blood Diamond and Music and Lyrics to me (though they are still in the mail.)

I've noticed that since I'm ordering older titles from ZIP that the shipping takes longer as well. I assume that means that they have one or two of the discs and they have to ship them cross country more often.

So far my biggest problem with Premieres seems to be turn around time. The turn around time with ZIP is better.. but getting newer titles is much more difficult.

BTW, was the Pan's that you got the regular or the special edition?
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Postby Ephraim on August 6th, 2007, 12:34 pm

Premiere's received...
Astronaut Farmer, The 07-31-07
French Connection (Collector^s Edition) 07-31-07
Notes on A Scandal 07-31-07
Pan^s Labyrinth (Special Edition) 08-01-07

Sent by Premieres...

Miss Potter
Number 23, The
Zodiac
Goodfellas
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