J films on video w/ E subtitles

[drainer at mpinet.net]

  Thanks for the advice.
  The whole Visa situation is rather annoying... I will be going to Japan
soon and will probably be spending money in that range... I guess I'll get
traveller's checks. Japan isn't the only place to do that either... I don't
know why people have to be  so complicated about making money (I'm talking
about small purchases too, where they don't  care about a credible
identity).
  It's true about the region encoding... I guess the companies just fall
into that argument, apparently not wanting to make any extra money that they
can.

 Sorry, it's just really frustrating sometimes, when all you want to do is
be a consumer, but certain places won't let you!

-df

----- Original Message -----
From: "Mark Nornes" <amnornes at umich.edu>
To: <KineJapan at lists.acs.ohio-state.edu>
Sent: Monday, September 16, 2002 9:57 AM
Subject: Re: J films on video w/ E subtitles


> >
> > I'd be very happy to learn where online shoppers have been going. It
> > would be helpful if people adding to this thread can indicate whether
> > they have experienced any shipping territory limitations.
>
> I went on a little shopping spree this summer, and brought home a
> couple thousand dollars worth of disks for our library. I found Shibuya
> Tsutaya the best, with trips to Kinokuniya important for filling in the
> gaps. I suspect ordering online is the best, since you are not at the
> mercy of the store's stock.
>
> By the way, I used a credit card for these purchases and was hassled by
> the stores every time. They didn't want to sell me the disks because
> the card was issued in the States. Tsutaya relented easily. I had to
> slap the employees of Kinokuniya around a little before they even
> considered calling Visa to check out the card. If you are dropping a
> lot of cash, I think travellers checks are probably the way to go.
>
> Markus
>
> PS: Virtually all the good stuff is Region 2. I simply don't get it.
> Why are these companies shooting themselves in the feet? Virtually all
> of these titles have no hope of being picked up by foreign
> distributors, while it is becoming increasingly easy to purchase disks
> through the internet. Does anyone know what's going on?
>
>