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The 1000 pieces to Europe Darth reckons on is a little low for most companies. If you can secure a deal by territory (Germany, Spain, France, UK etc.) you can shift more units than that. But as a ball park figure, it's okay.




You can take the UK out of that equation...UK stores pay fuck all for DVDs as they have a monopoly on where the product can be sold (Remember...there's no legal mail order of adult DVDs in the UK). UK producers have two options for R18 certified product: Take the pittance the stores offer you, or just sit on thousands of DVDs.

Most store chains will licence stuff like Evil Angel, Private and Hustler and just duplicate their own copies and sell to other stores as well as stocking up their own on the cheap. There are basically 3 big store chains in the UK and a handful of independents, and the big boys don't need to buy from anyone else, unless it's at the price they want, and if you don't sell to them (even at the super low price) you're going to lose even more money because you've got a bunch of product you can't sell anywhere else...it's basically a legalised monopoly

That's why I got out of the distribution game over here and got online instead.