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Originally Posted by commonsense
I was in DVD (and VHS) when there was still money to be made in it. 
Nowadays you have MANY bottom feeding mid-level/lower level wholesalers, who have a hard time selling 500-800 pieces of new release title at $8. (likely under $3) Your commission would vary based on the work you put into the product... (i.e presenting completed authored titles and paying for all printing/replication costs). That's alot of up front money for product to sit.
Or if you are going to just provide scenes to a wholesaler, and have them package, and repackage your product. Then possible lie to you about sales figures and inventory. Then sell it foreign,vod or even put up a content site to compete against you.
Then you're on long terms for payment (3-6 months AFTER the title hits the streets, not when the content is shot). Most distributors bank on small newbie producers/studios/wholesalers (like yourself) going out of business before payment is sent.
You see, I know better than to look on GFY for wholesale distribution of DVDs. Then again, I know better than to mess with DVDs in this market. The DVD market was saturated 3-4 years ago. Unless you have a superior product and brand, you will be used and thrown away like 100's of producers before you.
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Great post, but you missed the part that some people just don't even get paid at all, or the fact that many store owners will buy 1 copy, and just pirate your shit out the door. Who needs to buy DVDs at $3 or $8 when a store owner can buy 1 dvd, put it through their copying machine and get full copies at 50 cents a piece. I learned that first hand as I walked into a store in NYC, and saw pretty good copies of all of our DVDs, from the front cover and packaging to the Disc itself.