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Did it cost much to import the Treasures to Great Britain?

The word "investment" has been mentioned in the thread and I'm just wondering - if one buys the Treasures for investment purposes, is the price really high enough to worry about bad investments...? Does anyone really think that the Treasures are expensive?

($100 for the first MM set probably could be considered expensive, though.)

Cool I never got MM B&W

Lars Vermundsberget wrote:Did it cost much to import the Treasures to Great Britain?

The word "investment" has been mentioned in the thread and I'm just wondering - if one buys the Treasures for investment purposes, is the price really high enough to worry about bad investments...? Does anyone really think that the Treasures are expensive?

($100 for the first MM set probably could be considered expensive, though.)

The most i paid was £70 - (about $100 at the time) for MMILC Vol 1 which did include $12 postage. I did'nt look at it as an investment , i just wanted the product and was prepared to pay to get it. I just looked around for a while and sent a few e-mails and when i found someone i thought i could trust i bought it. The guy i got the MMILC 1 from was brilliant - he sent me one which got lost in the post and when he found this out he immediatly sent another

The other sets i got at reasonable prices Goofy $40 MMB&W $35 SS $40
all from ebay US last year. It might seem silly to some people that i paid these prices but i wanted them and missed out first time round.

The treasures in tins are only "expensive" because there is a demand for them, as i said before they should be freely available to everyone so those who can't afford these prices can enjoy them.

The prices for the US tins in the UK are so high i could probably sell them and easily get my money back , but i dont want to , i'm not a collector , i'm just happy that i've got these brilliant DVD sets

The tins don't mean a whole lot to me: I bought the 'Ultimate Treasure Chest' on Ebay this past January for about $130, and it had all of Wave 1 and 2 without them.

Son of the Morning wrote:The tins don't mean a whole lot to me: I bought the 'Ultimate Treasure Chest' on Ebay this past January for about $130, and it had all of Wave 1 and 2 without them.

They're also missing stuff inside (like the Lithographs).

I don't think these will be newly manufactured sets - I think it'll be sets left over from damaged tins. The Ultimate Disney Treasure Chest from Costco probably sold well, and Disney was then encouraged to make the tin-less sets available at all stores. Just my guess.

That could be the reason Disney switched from individually numbering the tins to manufacturing the certificate - so they could include it in the tin-less reissues. I guess we'll wait and see.

Jack wrote:I don't think these will be newly manufactured sets - I think it'll be sets left over from damaged tins. The Ultimate Disney Treasure Chest from Costco probably sold well, and Disney was then encouraged to make the tin-less sets available at all stores. Just my guess.

That could be the reason Disney switched from individually numbering the tins to manufacturing the certificate - so they could include it in the tin-less reissues. I guess we'll wait and see.

Though isn't it weird the lithographs would be missing?

Yes, I don't know what the explanation for the missing lithographs are. Perhaps, in an effort to generalize the tin-less Treasures, the lithos were taken out, since the tin was gone too? That seems far-fetched, though.

Perhaps they'll be included in these re-issues, but its all speculation at this point, o' course.

I think the reason the number stamped on the tins was dropped was to allow more flexibility when setting the numbers. After all, it's easy to repint a series of "certificates" but once a tin is stamped, you're stuck with it.

Yep, and I've talked to some people in and around the biz and the consensus appears to be:

1) Flexibility in assigning print numbers. If orders suddenly increase 2 weeks before production, just print additional paper COA's. Making additional numbered tins means re-setting up a second production line.

2) Cost. Much cheaper to print paper COAs than to manufacture and collate the numbered tins.

3) Lower Returns/Dented Items. No outside number embossing means no rummaging for low numbers. If you've seen the maniacs tossing Wave 1 & 2 tins around looking for a low number, you'll understand this one.

hi,
is there any word if they will in fact be reissued?
niki

Is it going to cost less money now without the tin? I mean, who needs a tin? I just want something to watch!

without lithos and tins the individual titles should be a lot less. After all that is taking away the collectible part of the set that a lot of people like myself do care about.

I think it was 2099net who said in an earlier thread that he expected the tin-less releases to retail for about $19.99, down from the $29.99 of the tin sets. I agree with this, though I think they might still try to retail them for $24.99. Of course, first-week sales would probably give us about $5 off whatever they retail for!

-Aaron