Well, lets assume minus all the other costs (subtitling, restoration, authoring, filming, etc) Disney makes $10 profit per sale once retailer, distribution and manufacturing costs are taken out off the price.a-net-fan wrote:HAHA AND I cant help but laugh at you ppl trying to figure out how Disney is making money off this run! Who cares. I sure dont! Just so they keep releasing waves of Treasures Im going to let them worry about that and just be a fan who is enjoying the product they are offering.
That means at a maximum Disney's making $395,000 profit per set. But out of that there's the other costs in assembling and creating and transferring the content mentioned above, which will knock their profits down even more. I really can't see any purely business motivation for Disney to continue, especially as each year, without fail, the number of sets released becomes smaller and smaller.
Disney are a big company, used to doing things BIG! Big numbers, big returns and big profit.
But a limited number also limits the turn over and means less profit per sale (as the fixed costs are absorbed by fewer sales).Maybe the idea behind the lower production numbers is they are hoping that it will build some demand for the treasures. You know how ppl get when something is released in a very limited number and is likely to sell out rather quickly......they jump on it nomatter what it is.
Disney aren't a charity, and if they could get the same people who work on the Treasures to spend half the time crapping out a Hanna Montanna set or working on the next state of the art Blu-ray Platinum release well, what would you think is most likely to happen?
