PRIORITY ONE RAINBOW RED: New Captain Scarlet series 2 DVD

by **Father Unwin** » Mon Sep 11, 2006 7:54 pm

Just noticed that NCS2 is #120 in the Amazon charts. That's one hell of a jump up :grin:

by **spurge321** » Tue Sep 12, 2006 8:50 am

Better still, it's at #69 today! Good figures considering the lack of publicity.

by **Father Unwin** » Tue Sep 12, 2006 9:13 am

That's great. In fact, if you look in the top 100 best seller DVDs on Amazon, NCS2 even made to #63 (presumably there is some sort of timing difference here).

by **Father Unwin** » Tue Sep 12, 2006 10:36 am

Sorry but what I am doing at work today is rather dull and so I keep checking the Amazon chart. Currently NCS2 is #59 in the 100 bestsellers list.

by **shadokp** » Tue Sep 12, 2006 2:04 pm

Father Unwin, can we have hourly updates from the Amazon chart? :grin:

I believe the first set reached 68 at one point - that was the lowest I saw it and I think I checked a couple times a day right around its release period. I guess if season 2 gets a better rank then perhaps the interest and amount of people into the show has grown since last year - at least that is the sloppy logic theory I have.

KP

by **shadokp** » Tue Sep 12, 2006 2:11 pm

I see that Amazon accepted my mini review for the season two set. I tried doing it for season 1 and for some reason they never accepted it. This time I also wanted to clarify that this was the new 2005 series and not the 1968 one as the official review seems to suggest.

The combo series box set is at #1,172 in DVD and it would be great to see that one break into the top 100 when all said and done.

KP

by **Father Unwin** » Tue Sep 12, 2006 4:27 pm

Hello Shadokp,

Thanks for your comments and I too have written a review which (hopefully) will appear any day now.

As far as the ranking for NCS set 2 is concerned I am mystified. For weeks it has been lurking around at about #1000 to #2000 and yet today all that has changed. It's like those wretched flying ants which seem to all take to the air at the same time!

Something must have triggered today's activity unless all children have been told in assembly that they must buy it or go into detention. Possibly, there is a snowball effect of online awareness if a DVD boxset hits the charts - I just don't know.

Does anybody know if there have been adverts on children's tv recently or of anything else that might have caused this? Also, how many boxsets does #59 in the charts equate to per day? I would guess about 50 to 100 but I don't really know.

by **shadokp** » Tue Sep 12, 2006 4:47 pm

I have no answer to this jump. The first set slowly moved and beside a price change or some promotion, like you said, why else would it move so quickly.

Of course maybe it has something to do with pre-ordering. Maybe Amazon does not record certain pre-orders until a certain date before release. Maybe today they processed all these certain orders all at once, hence the jump.

Does it count as an order when you pre-order? How many people pre-order and then cancel? Maybe they wait until a week before release (it is exactly one week) to process orders!

KP

by **chrisbishop** » Tue Sep 12, 2006 5:37 pm

Just to add some food for thoughts - yesterday, I received a promotional e-mail from Amazon. Something in the likes of "People who ordered (insert title - in my case, "Captain Scarlet and the Mysterons") also ordered..." and then there was the title of the New Captain Scarlet series, with a link to it, and underneath other links to other titles - and in final note, "You were send this e-mail because you purchased "Captain Scarlet and the Mysterons" boxset..."

That could have had an effect on the sale rating.

Chris

P.S.: I did purchase the original boxset - in 2001! That means that Amazon keeps all your purchases on record for a long time...

P.P.S.: Of course, I didn't need to order the NCS boxset - it's been on pre-order for months for me!

by **shadokp** » Wed Sep 13, 2006 1:41 pm

Just checked series 2 on amazon and saw this

Amazon Rank: None :shock:

Not sure what that means

KP

by **chrisbishop** » Wed Sep 13, 2006 2:48 pm

125, right now.

It's fluctuating greatly, apparently.

by **Father Unwin** » Wed Sep 13, 2006 3:59 pm

I think that there is just a problem with refreshing the data. If you refresh your screen a couple of times a proper ranking usually appears.

Currently, it is #89 in the rankings and even higher (#83) in the bestsellers top 100.

by **shadokp** » Wed Sep 13, 2006 5:30 pm

Okay, everyone, let's all buy a bunch of copies (christmas gifts, birthday gifts, etc,) and see if we can move that number....

I'll wait for you guys to go first before I start...

KP

by **chrisbishop** » Wed Sep 13, 2006 7:48 pm

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by **adam** » Wed Sep 13, 2006 8:43 pm

hi

bit late, sorry, the 4 million viwers were from the original from when it started last year!

well i'm buying serise 2!!!!!!! :grin:

emma