Survey: What does everyone look for in a fulfillment house?

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Caligirl3582828

Hi All,

Im new to this forum.

There are so many fulfillment houses out there that handle independent films. What is it that most filmmakers are looking for in a quality fulfillment house that will handle all their distribution?
 
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Do your schoolwork on your own, young lady!
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I want a place to do everything for me other than the marketing.

Createspace is a decent place. they are w/ Amazon, so on a $12.99 DVD they charge $4.95 for each DVD plus 15%, so you get $6.00 approx. PLUS they sell it on Amazon which will get you more sales than you can prolly do yourself and you only get $2.00 approx, not bad , but not the lion's share.

Im selling my stinkeroo movie, Cannibal Killer Clowns on Dope thru Amazon and I make enough to get a Mexican Dinner and a Margarita every other month, but heck I do not promote the movie at all either.
 
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Dreadylocks said:
Do your schoolwork on your own, young lady!
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Haha, you're probably right, Dready. This sounds like a school assignment. That being said, as a former teacher, I don't see any reason to believe that Caligirl is shirking her responsibilities. This is just good investigative surveying, in my opinion. Remember that kid that wanted us to write his screenplay? For fun, I gave him a short screenplay that was actually pretty funny, but that I knew he would have absolutely no chance of being able to shoot (car crash, massive police force, gunplay, space aliens).

Caligirl, I'd answer your question, but like the others who've commented so far, I've never heard of a fulfillment house, prior to this conversation. Best of luck!
 
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There are so many fulfillment houses out there that handle independent films. What is it that most filmmakers are looking for in a quality fulfillment house that will handle all their distribution?
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Are you actually selling large volume of a major studio release? 30 or more orders per day? Even at that level I'd stick with an online retailer like FilmBaby and of course Amazon.com of course. If you have the time to do your own shipping then use ccnow.com as your shopping cart / credit card processor.
I once worked with a fulfillment house for CD sales and it wasn't worth the upstart cost. They were also slow at shipping out orders. I found out on my own that they were shipping orders in batches every 3 or 4 days to save money. That pissed me off. I know someone else who sold products via infomercials and they got royally screwed over by a fulfillment house that went out of business, skipping out on paying for a few months of sales. I've never ever heard of anyone using a fulfillment house to ship DVD's. BTW does anyone still buy DVD's anymore???
 
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BTW does anyone still buy DVD's anymore???

As an employee of the biggest distributor in the US, I can tell you yes. Not on the level of 2006 (the peak year), but we did about 650,000,000 in gross sales this year. Even bigger is Walmart, who in large part is one of the driving forces behind the studios resistence to digital download. Walmart wants the physical product because they use it as a loss leader to drive traffic to the stores. Digital won't do that.
 
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