I think the reason for the SRP to differ from site to site, might be that they want to appear cheap. Therefore if they increase the SRP shown (probably not the correct SRP), the buyers will think they made a bargain.

I usually try to find if there's several sites listing the same SRP before I add it to the profile. But very often the SRP is the same on all major films, so if I see an SRP is the same as I would expect, I enter it even though I don't find any other matches.

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John,

You've been around long enough to know that we do not use the actual retail price for this field, which is what Amazon's $24.99 price is.

The Suggested Retail Price (SRP) listed at Amazon is $40.99.  That's what goes in the SRP field. 

Edit: Deepdiscount lists SRP as $39.95; B&N lists SRP as $39.99; DVDEmpire lists SRP as $42.99.

Take your pick, but don't change it for small discrepancies from one retailer site to the next.

Out of curiosity, how come those SRPs are different?

Good question.

You would think that the distributor would give the same SRP number to all of their retailers!   

And that is exactly my point.  If they can't even give the correct SRP from the manufacturer, how am I supposed to pick what is correct?  In addition, since only an idiot pays full SRP, why do we need to record what is at best a subjective value?  Isn't the actual price paid much more realistic -- not to mention much closer to what your insurance vendor is likely pay off on should your collection gets whacked.

So, what number do you use in place of SRP, just get rid of it? We already have the slot for price paid anyway.

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And that is exactly my point.  If they can't even give the correct SRP from the manufacturer, how am I supposed to pick what is correct?  In addition, since only an idiot pays full SRP, why do we need to record what is at best a subjective value?  Isn't the actual price paid much more realistic -- not to mention much closer to what your insurance vendor is likely pay off on should your collection gets whacked.

Actually, the SRP field is one of the most important fields to me since my primary use of Profiler (other than to keep track of what titles I own) is to know what I saved off SRP. For example, it means my collection has say $10,000 value but I paid $2500 for it because I am an astute shopper. I basically lets me know how successful a bargain shopper I am. I would imagine that insurance companies care more about SRP than what you paid, as it helps determine replacement value since you could never get the discs back at the same price you paid if you got them mostly from special sales that are often "once in a lifetime" like I do. Other than SRP and price paid, pretty much the only fields I give any crap about are where I bought the title and when I bought it. All those other fields like aspect ratio and cast I can get off the DVD cover or disc, and those fields I mention are the only ones that if I don't keep in a database, I have no way of knowing that info in the future.

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And wouldn't we run into the exact same problem with putting in actual price paid? Isn't that just as subjective?

DVDEmpire has the season at $30.09. Deepdiscount has it at $27.87. Best Buy at $24.99. etc. etc.

Exactly Merrik.

Another way to find out SRP is if you can find the press release announcing the season.  It will often list the Suggested Retail Price from the studio itself.

Huh.  The SRP that WE received from Paramount Home Entertainment is $42.99.

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Where are you seeing the $40.99 figure, Skip?