DVD-R at Sam's Club

[preacher238]

I have watched with interest the arguments for both +R and -R and why each one will win. So it was with interest I noticed this past week that Sam's Club in Amarillo, TX was now stocking Verbatim DVD-R's in 25 pks. I guess this will show (somewhat) that DVD-R is not going anywhere. These DVD-R's will burn at 2X in my Pioneer 105. They were 37.00 for a 25 pk. Just my 2 Cents worth.

[Erwin]

It should be noted (atleast here in Florida) that they are moving very fast. My dad always keeps an eye out for them and he said that they had the stacked all the way to the top. I went there yesterday (I don't need any as I already have 80 that I haven't even touched yet). They only had two rows next to a full cart of DVD+Rs. I remember when I used to see posts where someone had bought 100PK of DVD-Rs and I was thinking to myself, "How can one do that". But here I am getting close

[dreadogg]

The ones at my local sams are the verbatim "datalife" not data life plus like the office depot deal.

[overloaded_ide]

While it is good to keep an eye on store sales, it means nothing!
What is the best system a Dell or E-machine? What does Wall-mart sell?

You can't even buy a decent printer at wallmart! Just low end cheap junk.
Fine if you seldom print, garbage if you actualy use it often! NOT really the standard, just sells fast sheap and often because they are junk and break so, are replaced!

You really can't look at what a store is selling and see currant or future trends. You only see what the store thinks it can profit the most from.

Most people I know want cheap princo type disks or TDK, what does Our wallmart super center have? Memeorex and Maxwell! WHat are the people shopping at wallmart gonna buy?

Same with CD's, we want cheap disks in 50 or 100 packs, untill the last few months wally world would only stock jewel case 10 packs( in my area at least), because they make the most money on those. NOT a current or future trend, just highest profit margins! I geuss they finnally got wise, they now have 50 and 100 packs of something.

Besides that, what sells the most is what most people are currantly using most of.
Doesn't matter what format becomes a standard if any, I only buy -r -rw disks because that's all I can record. And untill I can no longer buy those disks, or this recorder stops working I will always be buying -r disks. So will everyone else with a working -r only recorder! So as long as we record the most disks the store will make the most profit on those disks, even if =r became a standard as a 3rd format.

If +r became a standard and 100 people have +r burners and burn 2 disks each per month That's 200 +r disks sold. If I still have the -r burner and am burning 500 disks per month just myself, then what's a standard and what is sold most? See what I mean! The standard is what most people have and use, not just what I have, but the most disks sold would be to me, so what does the store selling disks sell the most of? What would they run out of first if they stock 1,000 disks each? The standard is what the 100 people have, but the store has over half of them left after 2 months, they sold out of my disks because I buy all of them in 2 months.
So next time they order what do they overstock on, the ones that sold the most the fastest! And I would be the only one buying them..

Course the above example is silly, but you see what I mean, silly but the numbers work the same! And at a small store in a rural area that did happen in smaller numbers with print cartriges before I started refilling. I had the only printer in the area we knew of using that cartrig and the store was selling me alone twice as many cartriges as any other type they stocked! So looking at that store one would assume the standard in the area for print cartriges was the one I was using, tough I was the oddball using all of them!
About 50 per month! I had several of those prnters running nearly 24 hrs!
Most the store was selling of any other single type was 20-25 per month.
That was when I was printing pamphlets. The area standard was probably cheapo HP or lexmarks.

So in generall, what a store chooses to sell or sells the most of does not mean anything more than some-one wants them and the store can make a profit!

I had to beg the local small wallmart to stock cartriges for my 4100 cannon years ago, I was having to drive 60 mile to the super center to get them. Though I was burning them up fast then, the area standard was HP lexmark junk they were selling. So though I was buying more 4100's than they sold locally of HP Lexmarks they wouldn't cary them!
ABout the time I started refilling was about the time they started stocking