Originally Posted by mikesouth

Be VERY careful dealing with distributors in this business....most are at least as crooked as Fabian Thylmann.

Lets say you choose to self distribute IVD, Metro Home Video will want your product and they will offer to buy hundreds of pieces....they may offer 8 bucks per DVD. And of course they will want credit....and they will want to be able to return what they dont sell for credit.

lets use Metro as as an example lets say they take 500 pieces at 8 bucks per on a net 30 term

after 30 days they return 300 of those for credit (never mind your 200 piece price point would be 10 bucks per)

oh and they havent paid you yet...so if you are doing a release every week they now owe you a decent amount of money

But they have no incentive to pay you, what are you going to do hurt their credit rating?

so after 90 days you cut them off but they owe you a lot of money....they dont care what they wanted to do all along was wait you out, see if you would go belly up (as many do) and they would never pay you at all....after 180 days you might get a check, consider yourself lucky if it doesnt bounce.

and they arent the only ones playing this game....someone who pays 60 days past dues is actually a good payer.

your other option is to go with a company that can leverage these guys to pay on time, like evil angel...a product they have to carry if Evil angel decides to distribute your product you will make money and lots of it, they pay you when they get paid so small distributors who dont have the leverage that Evil Angel does face the same problem that you would have if you self distribute, expect a 25-30% default rate... So why doesn't Everyone distribute via Evil Angel? they are very picky about whose product they take...good luck getting them to take your product.

Selling to the DVD market is hardly worth the headaches these days....Consider yourself warned.