DVD Wholesale question:
 
I am looking to: Purchase DVD Disks (Movies) Wholesale
     a. Where can I make wholesale purchases of legal disks in the
USA (Besides the sources I have, or if you can tell me the best
sources to use out of my list and there aprox prices).
     b. What price range can I expect to pay?
NOTE: I am intrested in NEW movies that are all legal, i.e. Monsters,
et, back to the future, beuaty and the beast, MIB II (I know a couple
of thoes are soon to be relased) etc.

The following companies are companies I know of so far that sell DVD's
wholesale, some of these companies are based outside of the USA, I am
weary of buying from overseas, because of the horror stores about
customers snaging disks that they "think" are illegal.  If anyone can
provide any solid comments on any of there companies listed below I
would welcome them.  I would also like to know about any other
suppliers available.

NOTE: I can buy about $1000 at a time worth of DVD disks.

www.getvcds.com

www.northamericandvd.com

Ingram Entertainment 
Two Ingram Boulevard LA Verge,
TN 37086 (615) 287-4000
http://www.ingramentertainment.com

Alliance Entertainment
http://www.aent.com

Baker and Thomas
http://www.btol.com

Handleman Company
http://www.handleman.com

Rentrak Corporation
PO Box 18888
Portland, OR 97218
800-929-8000 (Sales) 
http://www.rentrak.com/home.html

The rest(More accessible for smaller companies and individuals)

JML Wholesale
Phone: 905-886-2062
Fax: 905-886-7075 
http://www.jmlwholesale.com/pages/1/index.htm

Buy Rite DVD
135 Fieldcrest Avenue
Edison, NJ 08837 
(800) 666-2800 Toll Free
http://www.buyritedvd.com

Strictly DVDs
Many DVD movies ranging from($3.50 to $6.20) - New releases. Contact
Jeff Mason, 1255 Citrus Ave, Suite 142, Redlands, CA, 92374, USA
http://www.strictlydvds.com 
http://www.littledvdqueen.com (mirror site)


Seller's Depot
Sells 100 lot of DVDs among other wholesale items.
http://www.sellers-depot.com


Bargin City
501 market st
Lyburn, West Virginia 25635 United States
Phone: 304-752-0262, Fax: 304-752-4295 
link 



Front Row Entertainment
400 titles ranging from $2-$5. Low minimum orders. Front Fow
Entertainment Inc (800) 666-2800
http://www.frontrowent.com 

Overstock B2B
Many new releases and popular titles, somewhat high prices.
http://www.overstockb2b.com

Norwalk Distributors
1193 Knollwood Circle Toll Free: (800) 877-6021 
Anaheim, CA. 92801
http://www.norwalkdist.com/

JAC's Auctions
Fighter Jet DVD
http://www.wholesalecentral.com/jacs/store.cfm?event=showcatalog&catid=9919


Prism Leisure
UK distributor of entertainment DVDs
1 Dundee Way, Mollison Avenue
Enfield, Middlesex, EN3 7SX
United Kingdom 
TEL: +44 (0)870 0000 247 FAX: +44 (0)20 8805 8001 
http://www.prismleisure.co.uk

IntelIndia
Indian DVD wholesaler.
http://www.intelindia.com/videostore/

Video Tapeworm
"Tapeworm is a video distribution company providing a wide selection
of topics from over 20,000 available titles."
http://www.tapeworm.com/

Library Video
Instructional and educational DVD titles
http://www.libraryvideo.com

Best Parts Videos
7955 Haskell Avenue Unit 2
Van Nuys, CA 91406
877-873-9301

Movie Center
1105 Route 35
North Ocean, NJ 07712
1-800-753-3615

The Video & DVD Exchange
2248 State Road
Bensalem, PA 19020
1-877-450-HITS

ACI Distributors
15041 Calvert Street Suite B
Vannuyes, CA 91401
1-800-338-4236

Greatest Film Classics
11381 Prosperity Farms Rd.
Palm Beach Gardens, FL 33410
561-964-9734

Myson Corporation
3911 W. Lawrence Ave.
Chicago, IL 60625
1-800-356-9766

Distribution Video & Audio
1610 North Myrtle Avenue
Clearwater, FL 33755
727-447-4147

PW Wholesale
2626 Main Street
Buffalo, NY 14214
716-832-2626

U.S. Video
1111 Rt. 35 N.
Ocean, NJ 07712
1-800-497-3637

Global Sources.com - 65 DVD Wholesalers





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Alphacom Distribution, Inc Adult 
5173 Waring Rd, STE 556
San Diego, CA 92120
Phone: (619) 282-3810
Fax: (619) 282-3599
http://www.alphacomdistribution.com/

Adult Video B2B Adult 
AdultVideoB2B.com
34544 Lakeshore Blvd
Eastlake, OH 44095
http://www.adultvideob2b.com

Adult Wholesale
DVDs and Videos. Playboy, Hustler, etc..
http://www.adult-wholesale.com/

Royal Video Distributors Adult 
1030 A-A Leslie Avenue
Baltimore, Maryland 21228 United States
Toll-Free: 800-458-9327
Phone: 410-747-2933, Fax: 410-747-3770
http://www.wholesalecentral.com/royalvideo/store.cfm 

Mad Entertainment Adult 
23 Fairway Lane
West Deal, New Jersey 07712 United States
Toll-Free: 1-800-261-5336
Fax: 732-660-1183
http://www.wholesalecentral.com/madentertainment/store.cfm

The Baron DVDs Adult 
Apparently also sells DVDs wholesale, e-mail them with a request.
http://www.thebaron.net/

XYDVD Adult 
http://www.xydvd.com/

Euro DVD Adult 
European DVD wholesaler
http://www.erodvd.com/

Note I am mainly intrested in NON-adult titles, NON-VCD format.  I
only want US region 1 dvd's that I can sell on e-bay in the 18-20$
price range.  I would love to get ahold of some legal copies of
scarface for resale.
 


Thank You,

Jamie Dolan

hi jamie,
 
I managed to find two other sources which are not on your list
 
dvds123.com
1750 Weir Drive
Woodbury, MN. 55125
Email: Sales@dvds123.com 
Home page: http://www.dvds123.com/
http://www.dvds123.com/Wholesale.html
  
ExcaliburFilms.com
U.S. Phone: 800-BUY-MOVIES
U.S. Fax: 800-2-FAX-MOVIES
Foreign Phone: 714-773-5855
Foreign Fax: 714-773-5409
E-Mail: webmaster@excaliburfilms.com
Address:	 Excalibur Films
 3621 W. Commonwealth
Fullerton, CA. 92833, U.S.A.
http://excaliburfilms.com/excal.htm
 
I  have contacted both companies re. wholesale pricing, and I will
post the responses when i receive them. I have also enquired about
getting hold of copies of Scarface.
 
 
Keywords used (Google):
wholesale dvd movies -getdvds -northamericandvd
-ingramentertainment.com -aent.com -btol -handleman -rentrak -
jmlwholesale -buyritedvd -strictlydvds -littledvdqueen -sellers-depot
-frontrowent -overstockb2b -norwalkdist -wholesalecentral
-primeleisure -intelindia -tapeworm -libraryvideo
-alphacomdistribution -adultvideob2b -adult-wholesale
-wholesalecentral -thebaron -xydvd -erodvd
://www.google.com/search?hl=en&lr=&ie=ISO-8859-1&q=wholesale+dvd+movies+-getdvds+-northamericandvd+-ingramentertainment.com+-aent.com+-btol+-handleman+-rentrak+-+jmlwholesale+-buyritedvd+-strictlydvds+-littledvdqueen+-sellers-depot+-frontrowent+-overstockb2b+-norwalkdist+-wholesalecentral+-primeleisure+-intelindia+-tapeworm+-libraryvideo+-alphacomdistribution+-adultvideob2b+-adult-wholesale+-w
olesalecentral+-thebaron+-xydvd+-erodvd&btnG=Google+Search
 
 
I hope this helps.

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Request for Answer Clarification by jamiedolan-ga on 03 Dec 2002 12:09 PST

HI,

Thank you for the additional sources that I can purchase from.  I am
wondering if you ran across any pricing at any of the sites you
visited.  I have e-mailed several places in regards to pricing and I
have not received many responses.  I am looking forward to see if your
inquires generate any responses, in regards to prices.

Do you know if any of they companies on the list Yours and mine,
either:
a. buy directly from the manfuactuor of the DVD disks
b. Legally make the Disks themselves
c. Act as another middle man, buying from a or b and selling to me.

If you have any clues as to where any of these people lie in the
chain, I would be very intrest to know.  I am ultimatly attempting to
buy from the "source" or as close to it as possible for the best
pricing, but I havent really been able to figure out who makes the DVD
disks in the USA.

Thanks again, I look forward to your response,

Jamie Dolan

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Clarification of Answer by jackburton-ga on 04 Dec 2002 13:50 PST

hi jamie,

I didnt come across any information on pricing, nor have I received
any reponses yet. But, I found out how you can geld of DVDs from the
source..
 
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SwapSellTrade.com
Telephone: 503-844-0504 
Email: sales@swapselltrade.com 
http://www.swapselltrade.com/WHOLESALE%20PRERELEASED%20DVDS.htm
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hope this helps.

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Request for Answer Clarification by jamiedolan-ga on 04 Dec 2002 14:27 PST

HI I have seen several web sites like this one before, in general from
what I have found all the sources that they are selling are illegal. 
As far as I know in the united states it is always illegal to sell
pre-release videos.

I look forward to hearing your responses from the e-mails.

Here is some information I found about pre-relase videos:

Box office hits pirated over Web 


By Gwendolyn Mariano 
Staff Writer
July 10, 2001, 4:25 PM PT


Three current box office hits--"Lara Croft: Tomb Raider," "Shrek" and
"Pearl Harbor"--are among the most-pirated movies over the Web for the
month of June, researchers said Tuesday.
MediaForce, a digital copyright enforcement company, said the
top-pirated film on the Web for June was "Snatch," followed by "Pearl
Harbor," "Traffic," "Tomb Raider," "Shrek," "The Matrix," "Gone in 60
Seconds," "Hannibal," "Gladiator" and "X-Men." The New York-based
company estimated that the list incorporates about a million pirated
copies for the month of June.

The announcement underscores Hollywood's susceptibility to copyright
piracy on the Web. The Motion Picture Association of America has filed
a handful of lawsuits aiming to stop illegal downloads of films,
including a high-profile case that charged an online hacker magazine
with posting code that could theoretically be used to copy DVDs.

 

MediaForce's list "demonstrates that online movie piracy is a very
real threat to the movie production industry, especially when three of
our Top 10 are current, first-run production movies," said Aaron
Fessler, chief executive of the company. "This isn't a real abstract
format where people are trading third-run movies. This is hit,
current-production stuff out there and freely available in a digital
format."

Some researchers, however, say the biggest challenge is not stamping
out piracy. Rather, film studios need to work together to provide
viewers access to a wide array of movies. Several major studios have
said they are preparing to distribute films online but they are still
far from setting launch dates for such paid services.

"The MPAA hasn't offered any guidelines for how movies might be paid
for by subscription, so people are turning to what they can get away
with," said Richard Doherty, director of research for The
Envisioneering Group, a Seaford, N.Y.-based technology testing and
market research firm.

In addition, Doherty said the movie industry has not produced any hard
evidence to back its claims that online piracy is costing it billions
of dollars a year.

The film studios "haven't given a scale to what this piracy is, and
therefore they're not taken as seriously in Washington as they might
otherwise," he said.

Fessler said that movies not yet released on DVD could be pirated and
distributed over the Web by bootleggers recording in a theater with
digital video cameras. He said that people working in a theater or a
production house also could leak pre-released films.

Movie piracy is going to be a "massive, massive problem" in the coming
months, he added, as tools that convert movies from DVD format into a
viewable, pirated format become easier to use. In addition, Fessler
said he believes broadband access is becoming more prevalent, making
it easier to download large movie files.

Doherty said that broadband is not necessarily the issue. 

"Broadband is not the enemy here so much as the camcorders that are
used to capture the movies in the first place," Doherty said.

MediaForce, which was founded early this year, said it scans the Net
every 15 minutes, identifying places--such as Web sites, newsgroups
and peer-to-peer services such as Gnutella and Aimster--that host
pirated materials. The company said it also helps copyright
holders--such as musicians George Harrison and John Coltrane--pull
their pirated materials off such networks.

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Request for Answer Clarification by jamiedolan-ga on 05 Dec 2002 20:29 PST

Hi,

I am just wondering if you heard back from anyone in referance to the
Prices portion of the question.  I spoke with:

Ingram Entertainment  
Two Ingram Boulevard LA Verge, 
TN 37086 (615) 287-4000 
http://www.ingramentertainment.com 

Yesterday and they are going to mail me out some information.  I sound
like they may off ther kind of program that I am looking for, however,
I am not positive that they are cheap enough, I just get the feeling
that they are not going to offer deep enough discounts on small
quanities to make a decent profit margin.

I look forward to seeing what type of prices you can come up with.

Thanks,

Jamie

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Clarification of Answer by jackburton-ga on 06 Dec 2002 12:45 PST

hi jamie,
 
re: pricing - reponses received to date
 
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FROM: DVDS123

I assume you read our webpage:
http://www.dvds123.com/Wholesale.html
 
To qualify for the wholesale rates your first test order must exceed
30
dvds.  Orders after that must exceed 55 dvds per order.
 
To create an order start here:
http://www.dvds123.com/Wholesale1.html
Pricing appearing on our website is not negotiable.
 
Other points you should know:
We can ship internationally.
Payment can be arranged by visa, mastercard, discover, PayPal, or wire
transfer.
 
If there is anything else i can help you with please let me know.  I
would
be happy to help you ordering from our website for the first time.
 
chris janota
651-730-1818  ext. 203
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FROM: BUYRITEDVD
 
At the present time we do not stock any new release titles due to the
low profit margins available. We offer a 5% discount and free shipping
on all orders over $500
 
Thank you 
Jack Sutton
Buy Rite Dvd 
www.buyritedvd.com 
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FROM: BAKER & THOMAS
 


Thank you for your inquiry.  Please contact our Entertainment Dept. at
800-775-2600.
 
Information Services
btinfo@btol.com
http://www.btol.com 
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FROM: GetVCDs.com  
 
Hello,
 
Thank you for allowing us the opportunity to present our 
volmue purchase information for you.
 
Basically, our discount rate for DVDs is as followed:
Retail Pricing	Volume Pricing
$12.99-$13.99 	$8.50
$15.99		$9.50
$18.99		$14.50
 
Scarface is $9.50 per piece.
 
Minimum order quantity is 40 pieces.
Titles can be assorted.
 
Courier mode is by express courier. 
Shipping charges to U.S.A. is $95.00 per shipment of up to 88 pieces
DVDs or 24 sets trilogy. 
The DVD is with casings and sealed. 
We also have a separate quote for shipment without casings as well.
 
We accept only advance payment by bank wire transfer or Western Union
money transfer. 
Credit card payment is not acceptable for volume purchase orders.
 
I hope our general quotation as above would fit into your business
model
very well.
 
We are very keen to start a business partnership with you. 
Again, thank you for contacting us about this business opportunity
with
you. We are eager to hear of your decision.
 
Regards,
Guin
www.GetVCDs.com
 
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Have not received anything from Excalibur Films yet.

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Request for Answer Clarification by jamiedolan-ga on 16 Jan 2003 09:31 PST

HI,

Did you every hear back from anyone else?

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Clarification of Answer by jackburton-ga on 16 Jan 2003 11:49 PST

sorry jamie, i never heard back from anyone else. Have you had any
luck with ones who've responded?

Here's another supplier..
 
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Columbia House
http://go.columbiahouse.com/cache/home.do?&dk=3J9&cross=990-1736-1039-314&club=3&dk=3J9&cross=990-1736-1039-314&cache=true&v=186&mode=QJR&group=PAYMENT
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