Filmbay - anyone know anything about them?

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Filmbay - not Filmbaby - is listing my short film for sale. It's not something that would have raised an eyebrow normally since the film is sold through Amazon and because of that pops up at a number of other places that sells Amazon stock.

What did seem weird is that it's one of a small collection of films, and they show they have over 300 in stock. That, I know, is impossible. Amazon has 3. Filmbaby has 16. and IndieFlix prints on demand. I would remember shipping out 300 DVDs. :huh:

Does this sound weird to anyone? Has anyone dealt with them? Do you think I should contact them and ask where they're getting their DVDs from? Do you think they are pirating? They have a whole submission section for content and seem legit; I've just never given them permission to sell the film, not should they have over 300 in stock.
 
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I send filmbaby 10 DVDs, did my page. They haven't sold one -- according to my page. I don't get any reports. Nothing. I don't know what to think. I don't know if it's been a year. I doubt. I'm going to ask for the DVDs back after they've had them for a year and if I don't get any money from them.

CreateSpace and Amazon have done the best for me. BUTTERFLIES IN THE WIND is with them. I can always review my account and see what they have sold. They haven't sold much for me, but then I have books with them too and they're at least sending me some money every month and the Interface is easy to operate.

Indieflix sold a few copies in the beginning -- mostly to my actors. LOL
Now I don't get any money from them. I don't know if they will ever sell any more copies.

Too bad this Internet thing isn't working out as it was advertized -- too many movies, no promotion for indie filmmakers --

if somebody gets famous (like Sarah Palin as soon as she was running for VP), then we hear their books are selling in the millions.

The key problem is advertizing -- nobody does advertizing. If there comes a website like Google is for ads, then movies will sell well on the Internet too.

But nobody has figured out how to sell indie movies on the Internet.
 
no, i meant filmBAY, not filmBABY.
after sending filmBAY an email asking how they had permission to sell the DVD, they almost immediately responded with a letter saying they would immediately remove the film from their site. no request that i prove i owned the copyright, so it seems a bit dodgy. plus, i noticed a lot of films on their site with IndieFlix covers.

if you are selling a film through IndieFlix, i'd double check at filmBAY since they might be selling pirated copies.
 
Filmman, it's not up to those websites to sell the movie for you. They are just a convenient middle man between your film and the viewer, you still have to promote it just as much as if you were selling it off of your own site. You can't expect people to want to buy the film just due to it being up on IndieFlix.
 
filmman said:
CreateSpace and Amazon have done the best for me. BUTTERFLIES IN THE WIND is with them. I can always review my account and see what they have sold. They haven't sold much for me, but then I have books with them too and they're at least sending me some money every month and the Interface is easy to operate.
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Yea, Createspace is working for me too. We did decent business this month on books alone. Not making anyone rich but it's extra money you're just setting back and collecting from a product that's out there already. "Action Filmmaking" and "The Action Filmmaking Workbook" are doing pretty decent. It took awhile but I tell everyone in high school or just getting into college filmmaking to pick up "Action Filmmaking". The beauty is Createspace gets their stuff sold on Amazon as they're owned by Amazon now. (I actually spoke with the original owners several times during the company's humble beginnings).

-Nate
 
i tried to change the name of this thread since my point is being missed.

hopefully someone has some info on filmBAY - they were selling pirated copies of my film. :beer::dankk2:
 
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