Technical Video Rental

Nice idea, but you're going to charge $10 to RENT a video? I might pay $10 including shipping to buy one.

You should check the prices of such videos (through the Society of Manufacturing Engineers, for example). Frequently more than $200 each, which insn't bad since they are typically been shown to a class full of people.

Regards,

Robin

On 8 Feb 2005 09:44:31 -0800, the inscrutable "TJIC" spake:

Yeah, and ten bucks for a week's rental, including shipping both ways, isn't bad. It looks like an inexpensive way to preview specific tapes prior to purchase.

Books can take us just so far, while videos relate a whole lot of unspoken information at the same time, taking our knowledge a bit further, until we get out lazy butts out into the shop again. ;)

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Hey Vlad,

Maybe you've got the "customers" price in mindthat you would be happy with, but all this type video cost quite a bit more retail. Try looking up railway videos, or the NAMES show video. Or the price of those ones he's got with Rudy K as the mc.

Take care.

Brian Laws>

Robin, Brian,

Thanks for giving Vlad and others info on the price of these videos.

Vlad: a bit more information:

I agree, $9.99 for an instructional welding or lathe video is a bit steeper than $3.50 to rent Spiderman 2 at the corner video place. The price reflects two things: (a) free postage both ways [ first class on DVDs, Media Mail on VHS tapes]; (b) the much higher price of instructional videos. Not too many of the videos are quite as expensive as was suggested above, but they are pricey. A four part DVD series on the 1911 pistol, for example, does cost over $200...(and Technical Video Rental has invested over one thousand dollars in just copies of this title alone, never mind the other 250 titles we carry) and lots of other videos are north of $70 apiece, retail.

I'd argue that the question to ask yourself is "given the price of these videos, would I rather pay $70 plus shipping to own one video, or $69.93 [ and no shipping ] to rent seven different videos, spread out over a year or more?".

Anyway, the service isn't for everyone...but if you're interested in videos, give it a shot!

TJIC

9.00 bucks for one of these videos is a fine price. If it teaches me something I can't find about with out it I can make back a lot more than $9.00. Sure it sounds like a bit but they are not going to rent all that many of them... they gota make their money back somehow. I live in a totally nonmechanical area... the only book in the library about lathes is a religious work. I look forward to renting these films and improving my skills!

LB