Quote Originally Posted by Lee
Do you folks register your barcodes anywhere or do you just make them up?

Is it even worth bothering with a UPC on your DVD titles?

Any advice you can offer on this matter would be appreciated

Regards,

Lee
No Lee, you don't want to make up bar codes!

The bar code is the ideal way of tracking inventory and all retailers we sell to require them on the DVD titles we sell - especially the giant retail chains such as Tower Records and Virgin Records.

You can register with the UCC (uniform code council) to get your own company number (good idea) for about $700 (+-) which then allows you, as a member to get an exclusive code for each product for about $25-$35...

A way around this, is to have your distributor assign the numbers to you for each product.

Either way, tracking is essential in the world market and this is often an easy way to identify fraudulant merchandise.

Google the UCC and see what you come up with...it's been a long time since we initially registered... we assign each new title with a number and our printer places the bar code in the appropriate white box on the covers.