New business coming to Market St.

Geeky Swedes Ballard

A new business on Market Street will help you get rid of your old movies and help you find new ones.

Movie Cycle is moving into the space where Annabelle’s Consignment and Antiques used to be, before closing in February. The signs in the windows say that you can buy, sell or trade DVDs. They’ve got shelves, posters and some inventory ready to go. We’re guessing that they’ll be opening very soon.

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The founders of My Ballard

21 thoughts to “New business coming to Market St.”

  4. This place lasts a few months max. Who buys dvds anymore? Netflix and online video purchase. This place is not gonna last…. Jeez, not to complain too much, but supercuts, pho big bowl, and dvd resale….what a crap string of storefronts. Oh well, i guess I don't have enough money to start a falafel place or a guatemalen chicken rotisserie place yet……

  5. I'm not so sure. DVD sales are down, but not completely out. At the right price people still want to own their movies. Not as many as when DVD was the shiny new thing, but still there's a place for DVDs.

  7. DVDs still have a lot of life in them. Netflix's CEO recently said in an interview that he thinks they will be around for at least another 10-20 years. This coming from the guy who probably has the most to gain by seeing DVDs go away. Streaming and downloading is still an incredibly small slice of the overall market. Not everyone has a 360, PS3 or Wii with which to stream Netflix nor do they know how to hook up a PC to their TV.

    What will shut this place down in short order is the very low margins to be had in secondary DVD sales. They're going to need a LOT of volume to keep the doors open and I just don't see that happening. I give them 6 months, tops.

  8. Netflix is just an easy way of renting. Some of us movie buffs still like ownership. I have DVD's in my collection I watch several times a year.

  9. Sadly, I agree with you. Unless they're getting free rent and volunteer labor, there's simply no way to make ends meet with this type of business.

  11. My husband will be managing the MovieCycle store, so I've had an insider's peek at the venture. The store will be opening with a good chunk of stock, but lots of room to expand. It'll be getting regular influx of “new” releases from the owner's rental stores — about a month after a title's released on DVD, MovieCycle will get it. The store owner's rental shops have sold those newer titles online through Amazon for a long time, and do pretty steady business through those Internet orders; MovieCycle will be listing a lot of inventory through its own Amazon storefront to move stock that way, as well.

    There should be some kind of official press release with a lot more information soon; we're hoping to open the store for business by the end of this week, just depends upon how smoothly the rest of set-up goes.

  13. The library allows you to check out DVDs for 2 weeks at a time. You can even reserve all of the new releases online. As long as you're willing to wait.

  15. Aha! Now I see where you're coming from. The arguments against DVD can be made against books as well. The library lets you “rent” them, they're available for download on the internet, etc…

    Then again, the used book stores have been withering away too, so maybe you are on to something.

  18. The one with the fast cars and guns, or the one with the dog? In either case, the answer is pretty much “yes, we do.” :)

    Come see us. We should be open tomorrow (9/9/09). Mention you read about us on myballard.com and I'll give you 10% off your purchases or an additional 10% for items you want to sell.

    Looking forward to seeing you,

    Jeremy
    Manager, Moviecycle

  21. If you've got a decent selection of classics you've got a customer for life.
    I'll be in this weekend to check you out.
    Got a DVD collection to re-build. :-)

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