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I'm not trying to cause trouble. It's an honest question and one you are yet to answer. Who cares if it is a well known thing, that isn't the point. The point is you are now condoning people adding a UPC from the shrinkwrap and not from the actual case.

If the UPC on the shrinkwrap covered the UPC on the case at the time of retail purchase then it is the product's UPC.

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OK cool. I'm going to change about 100 UPC's then because they had store stickers on the shrinkwrap with different UPC's to the actual case. I'll be sure to request they all get deleted.

With all due respect, Alien. I suspect you have just hit upon why the Rules don't get updated, even as often i would like. How many times do I see the same remark, the Rules need to be updated for this, that or some other issue, to the point that it boggles the mind.  I'll wager at the moment we probably have 50-100 such remarks regarding any users pet project which are outstanding at this time. The Rules aren't clear here so update it, over here we just ran into something new update the rules, whoops what about this crew guy...update the rules. Seems to be the latest Forum buzzwords...update the Rules., all this wile we call for Ken to intercede on every debate.

Skip<whew>

So skip argues for being reasonable where slavishly following the rules doesn't make sense now. I'm impressed and agree with him on this. This is a rare situation, but since it is verifiable what happened here (i.e. that the upc on the case is a misprint) and since we have no way to enter both movies under the same UPC and we know the correct UPC wwhile will presumable be used on subsequent printings, this is the way to go.

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I'm not trying to cause trouble. It's an honest question and one you are yet to answer. Who cares if it is a well known thing, that isn't the point. The point is you are now condoning people adding a UPC from the shrinkwrap and not from the actual case.

If the UPC on the shrinkwrap covered the UPC on the case at the time of retail purchase then it is the product's UPC.

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Not to mention the number of UPCs that are on a data sheet that is attached to the back of a box set or custom case or...

You shouldn't submit it. You need to submit with the disc-id because the UPC has been used already. Mistake or not, the UPC is on the actual packaging and using a sticker on shrinkwrap is absolutely absurd for what you are adding when there is a legitimate UPC on the case (distributors mistake or not).

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Although it would be more convenient for these one-off mistake printings, I don't want to open the can of worms that would make stickered UPCs an official alternate entry ID.  In this case, if the printing is an error perhaps the distributor will correct it in subsequent runs.  In the mean time, disc ID is the suggested entry method.

But the distributor has corrected it. They are just too cheap to order a re-print.

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Often the shrink wrap has a different UPC number covering the one on the DVD case - usually if it is on sale.

Often? I've never seen it on a Swedish DVD before. But I've seen it on US/Canadian covers that I've ordered online. Sometimes you'll find both these (with and without) stickers in the database.