Skip, I bought this on sale at 18.99, 46.99$ is their regular price, not a "Make believe" price.  I thought of using the note field but then this price wouldn't a numeric and could hardly be used to make any kind of calculations in reports.

Anyone who thinks their insurance company would/will replace or reimburse you the SRP of a DVD is seriously mistaken. They will only reimburse you what it costs to replace the DVD and that is only after you repurchase the DVD. Don't forget your deductible too. Read your policy or talk to your agent and you'll see this is true. A simple printout will not prove you owned anything so either keep receipts or take pictures. Trying to bilk your insurance company constitutes fraud. 

SRP is used mostly(as a selling point) with high dollar items so retailers can offer big % off deals and still make money while also making it look like they gave you a great deal. Even though most retailers never charge the SRP they can use it as a marketing tool. I'm sure you've read or heard advertisements and in the fine print or with the last breath you'll read or hear "off SRP" or "off MSRP".

If you're a collector of DVD's to make money, then please don't read this. DVD collecting is one of the worst investments there is (Look it up). Hopefully, most here are movie lovers and not DVD lovers.

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Anyone who thinks their insurance company would/will replace or reimburse you the SRP of a DVD is seriously mistaken. They will only reimburse you what it costs to replace the DVD and that is only after you repurchase the DVD. Don't forget your deductible too. Read your policy or talk to your agent and you'll see this is true. A simple printout will not prove you owned anything so either keep receipts or take pictures. Trying to bilk your insurance company constitutes fraud. 

SRP is used mostly(as a selling point) with high dollar items so retailers can offer big % off deals and still make money while also making it look like they gave you a great deal. Even though most retailers never charge the SRP they can use it as a marketing tool. I'm sure you've read or heard advertisements and in the fine print or with the last breath you'll read or hear "off SRP" or "off MSRP".

If you're a collector of DVD's to make money, then please don't read this. DVD collecting is one of the worst investments there is (Look it up). Hopefully, most here are movie lovers and not DVD lovers.

You'll excuse me if I listen to MY insurance agent and not you.  Insurance companies are all about negotiating.  You sure as hell can't negotiate much if you're already starting at the low end of the scale, can you?  Oh, and by the way, my insurance pays off on a claim before replacing the items.  That's the whole point of insurance.

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But how do you define the current selling price?

Current selling price when and where I bought the DVD.  I buy most of my DVD's on sales, I want to be able to enter the price I paid and the regular price.  Last week I bought "Wonderfalls" for 18.99$ at Future Shop, their regular price was 46.99$, the SRP in DVDP is 59.99$.  What I want is to be able to enter the 46.99$ in the personalization window so later on, in reports and all I can compare the price I paid with what was the retail price when I bought it.  Comparing with the SRP at the time of release doesn't tell me how much I saved because this was not the retail price when I bought it.

Hi Touti,

I know exactly what you are talking about, I wish for this also as I currently replace the SRP with the price the store would sell it for. In the purchase price I put the price I paid for it, then I know later on how much I saved.

Thanks, I was seriously considering moving to a continent where they understand my language     

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maybe they do insurance differently down unda.

Skip

He doesn't live 'down unda'.  If he is telling the truth about his 'resume', he lives in Ohio. 

But you are correct, different insurance companies handle things differently depending on your policy.  My sister-in-law was recently robbed and the insurance company started at MSRP and went down from there, based on how old her stuff was.

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I tried to suggest having two entries for price before.


The original SRP and the current SRP, but some didn't like it because they said it require constant updating of the current SRP. Personally I didn't see the big deal. It's not like SRP's are dropped every week, it's likely many months between price changes, so it wouldn't really require much to update the current SRP entry.

I thought it was a good idea.

yes I think this is a great idea - lets have all 200,000 profiles updated monthly with new SRP values. And then there is the flip flopping as some people think they are different - lets say another 20,000 changes each month.

a mere total of 220,000 changes... sounds good to me.

After all its not like Ken and Geri have any proper job.. lets get them approving these each month..

OK, what about have an entry for the current SRP, but which would strictly be local only and would not be able to be contributed.

That way, their wouldn't be changes made on a monthly basis (which I doubt. more like many months in between SRP changes) and their would be no need for contributions based on current SRP changes.

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and a non-contributable (local only) current SRP below that.

That's what I suggested right above your post.

A current SRP entry/field that would be LOCAL only and non-contributable.

Personally I like the idea as I sometimes go through my wishlist and when you only have so much money to spend it's sort of hard to budget out what you want when every DVD has basically the same SRP of $30 or so instead of what the current SRP is.

Oh, but what do I know, perhaps all of my suggestions are just stupid.