Why do people insist on changing SRP to 0, when there is a SRP already in the field. I've locked that part of the profiles, so no harm done, it just annoys me when people do that.

I don't know the justification for it. Just noticed it with a profile refresh.

In some localities, there is no SRP (ie. Hong Kong).  Often times, someone will put in a US$ SRP for Hong Kong DVD that they got from US retailers, but this is wrong.  Ideally there should be an option for null entry rather than 0.

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In some localities, there is no SRP (ie. Hong Kong).  Often times, someone will put in a US$ SRP for Hong Kong DVD that they got from US retailers, but this is wrong.  Ideally there should be an option for null entry rather than 0.

+1. It would be great if there were a little checkbox next to the SRP that allowed you to gray the box out (like the checkbox next to collection number in the Personalize field).  Or just for those localities, like Hong Kong, make it automatically grayed out.

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It MIGHT be because in some localities (including The Netherlands) it is very hard to unequivocally establish the correct SRP, if this has not been done on or near the release date. E.g. most Dutch webshops will list a "fantasy" SRP, merely to give you the impression you're getting a good deal with them. And then there are users who will contribute what THEY paid for a release as if it were the SRP.

Any of these two situations might constitute a valid reason to "reset" the SRP, even without knowing what the correct SRP is (or rather: was at the time of release).

Practices with SRP in localities like NL are very different from those in the US or even UK.

I rather like an estimation of the SRP in the time of release than a setting to 0. But that's just my personal opinion.

Well, in some cases there ard old press releases with srp (on dvd.nl, dvd-home.nl, dvdinfo.be etc.) or postings of srp's on Dutch dvd forums. There are other similar releases released at the same time with a known srp or parallel releases across Europe. Shops can create their own srp here so a real srp is relative.

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Would be near impossible to document, Corne, so I don't think it belongs in the online.

Not necessarily, deejay

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IMHO the online should deal with data and facts, not with estimates. The old press releases Corne was referring to contain facts, not estimates. I'm all right with the press releases, not with the estimates.

But you said it yourself. In The Netherlands there are no real SRP's. The shops can make up SRP's of their own. That's an estimation as well because the DVD distributors don't give much info about SRP. If we're lucky there's a press release but that's rare. Most of the time there's even a difference in SRP between shops. I agree with you that in most cases we must stick to pure data. But in the case of The Netherlands and SRP I don't see a problem in an estimation as long as it is based on something (a similar release in the time of first release, parallel release across Europe in the case of the same distributor, forum posts about the prices).