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Isn't it so annoying!
I bought Space Camp for £13 about 2/3 months ago, it appeared in Play.com's £6.49 sale a week later!!
I dread looking through the sales pages just in case I spot another one...
Same happened to me. I bought erin brochovich when it first came out from HMV, I went in 2 days later and it was in the buy one get the other half price. I took it back got a full refund, then gave the money to my mate who was outside, he went back in, picked up Erin Brochovich and Bram Stoker's Dracula that I wanted for ages but refused to blow 20 quid on and paid for them and walked out and gave me the discs. Got my orginal choose nad a disc I wanted cheap. Excellent.
:smokin:
It's got to the point now, that unless it is a film I really want (or is R1) then I'll wait untill they appear in the sales - done this recently with the Sharpe DVD's - £7.99 each instead of £11.99, Blue Planet £17.99 instead of £34.99 and various other's.
We had a copy of Space Camp in MVC at London Bridge for £3.99 yesterday!
Originally posted by Werdna1979
I bought Space Camp for £13 about 2/3 months ago, it appeared in Play.com's £6.49 sale a week later!!
Sorry .. I can't help myself .. you bought Space Camp ... ??? :lol: :lol: :lol:
Sorry, I know what you mean. My Usual Suspects SE was selling for £8 or £9 not so long ago after I paid full price on release.
Originally posted by cluderi
Sorry .. I can't help myself .. you bought Space Camp ... ??? :lol: :lol: :lol:
it was one of my favourite films when I was about 11 ( Lea Thompson :norty: )...
...and anyway, I needed one more disc to make-up a full DV-Depot box...
Not too long ago:
Futurama Season 1 - £28 from Play....
I refuse to even look at this thread... :(
If we could have that deals a lot earlier, we could have extra 500 pounds to buy more DVDs :nuts:
bought 2 copies of "About a Boy" R2 one for me, one for xmas pressie. Paid at £14.99 @ play.com (cheapest at the time!)
the next bloody day it's £12.99 at play :mad:
go past Sanity on Vic Station the day after that and it's bloomin £9.99 :mad: :mad:
It's only been out a few weeks!!!!!!!!!!!! :brickwall
I've noticed this a lot too. My whole collection is getting devalued.
Just look at the classifieds. Most 'new' titles can be picked up for around £9-£11 when 6 months or so ago it would be at least £11-£13. It's really turned into a buyers market. Back catalogue stuff is about £6-£8 or less.
I very rarely by any new titles now, it's just not worth it.
yep DVDs are getting cheaper now, well not the RRPs but sales are getting better and better.
most stuff in MVC sale is like £7.99, its great !
I brought The Long Good Friday for £14.99 a month later it was £6.49 but mine has the black slip case so it was worth it:brickwall
I call this the "Pre-Order vs. Patience" conundrum. Save a quid or two by pre-ordering or just wait a few months and make some serious savings in sales or promotions. This mainly applies to R2 tho'.
D.
I've become more careful about buying R2s on release... If I MUST have a title early, it will usually be the cheaper R4 (cause of picture quality), or R1 in the case of a title released much earlier or other regions having defects (like the sound on FOTR).
When I see the likes of Requiem for a Dream, Angel Heart and Manhunter for £5.99 at Play, I'm so jealous of the lucky sods who will discover them at that price!
Ohhhhhhh, yes.... Most sickening ones were probably buying The Godfather Trilogy last year at near full price only to see it drop to about £20 at the MVC sales a couple of months later! :gag:
The other major one was buying about half a dozen HKL titles from play for £14.99 to see them put them all on sale for £8.99 the following week :oh-hum:
What can you do, eh....?
Yeah, I almost never buy any new releases on R2 anymore, with the odd exception of course (Red Dwarf). Pretty much every release by the major distributors (EIV, Cloumbia Tristar, Buena Vista etc.) can almost always be picked up for below £10 within 6 months or less. EIV are the worst for this, you can already pick up Goldmember for £8.49 and it's only been out for a month:shocker: . The only new releases I buy are collectable R1s that are unlike ley to be released here (Criterions, Walt Disney Treasures) plus cheap discs from Oz and Hong Kong.
It seems to me that over the last 6 months there are studios who are more guilty than others over this.
For example Anchor Bay (R2) and HKL titles are always marked down in these sales (usually to half price or so). Eg, Long Good Friday, Obsession and HKL Platinums
EiV titles are always in the sales, but with a lesser discount (waiting for the massive discounts on LotR for instance). Eg, Blade 2 has come down to £10 in these sales.
Now the only full price dvds I'll get are:
Brand new R1's from dvdsoon.
Titles I REALLY want (red dwarf S2)
I bought the first 2 sharpe dvds for £13 from mvc. When I saw the boxset coming out, I waited till mvc had a 10% off weekend, and then pre-ordered it (£75), and sold the other two dvds for close to what I bought them for. Now you can get them all for £8 each (except the last which is £9). So that's £18 for a cardboard box. It's nice, but not THAT nice.
I got all the Star Trek TNG sets and now you can get the first 3 for £49.99 when I paid £66.99 each for the first two.
The trouble is I cannot wait. I held of getting spiderman and tried to get it in Games' 2 for £25 but at the time I coudn't find another one. I saw Goldmember but just paid £15.99 for it elsewhere.
I have now seen Goldmember for just £8.49 in WHSmiths.
I bought Armageddon (for my sister in law who begged and begged...) about 18 months ago from Criterion (US$45) only to find it being released with the SAME extras locally for about US$10!
Lucky I hate the movie (and can afford to waste money:D )
Now I wait (usually) until the movie I want is on special.
Unless I want it now (eg LOTR)
Originally posted by Ghost Dog
EIV are the worst for this, you can already pick up Goldmember for £8.49 and it's only been out for a month:shocker:
Don't you mean the best ?.
Originally posted by pompeyfan
It's got to the point now, that unless it is a film I really want (or is R1) then I'll wait untill they appear in the sales
Even R1's are no longer exempt... I paid £16 for my copy of 'Donnie Darko' a little while back and now you can pick it up for next to nowt from DVDSoon.
Mind you - it's such a darn good film it's worth £16 and more!
Billy Connolly: Live
Lee Evans: Live
Paid 16.99 each now 8 pound something.
Will wait till the sale before i buy any stand up next year. :(
Originally posted by staffyman
Even R1's are no longer exempt... I paid £16 for my copy of 'Donnie Darko' a little while back and now you can pick it up for next to nowt from DVDSoon.
Mind you - it's such a darn good film it's worth £16 and more!
:thumbs: Just ordered a copy from DVDSOON :D
"Donnie Darko" is cheaper now thanks to Fox's re-pricing & re-issue policy that reduces the RRP on most releases about 9 months after the initial R1 release. This is a good policy and at least gives initial buyers long enough to own the disc so that they don't feel ripped off mere days after the original release date!
Originally posted by WeaselFierce
Ohhhhhhh, yes.... Most sickening ones were probably buying The Godfather Trilogy last year at near full price only to see it drop to about £20 at the MVC sales a couple of months later! :gag:
Me too! Bought my other half this set for crimbo for £38 only to see it go in the sales on boxing day in woolies for £27 !!!!! Sickening :(
Yeah Goldmember for £8.49 in WHSmith caught me out too!
Managed to hold off on Italian Job until HMV included it (quite quickly I thought) in a BOGOF only to see it at £6.99 in their sale, and mine's still in its shrinkwrap!
As a result I'm holding off more and more now on R2 unless there's something about the initial packaging I like.
I bought Space Camp for £13 about 2/3 months ago, it appeared in Play.com's £6.49 sale a week later!!
I dread looking through the sales pages just in case I spot another one...
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Same happened to me. I bought erin brochovich when it first came out from HMV, I went in 2 days later and it was in the buy one get the other half price. I took it back got a full refund, then gave the money to my mate who was outside, he went back in, picked up Erin Brochovich and Bram Stoker's Dracula that I wanted for ages but refused to blow 20 quid on and paid for them and walked out and gave me the discs. Got my orginal choose nad a disc I wanted cheap. Excellent.
:smokin:
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It's got to the point now, that unless it is a film I really want (or is R1) then I'll wait untill they appear in the sales - done this recently with the Sharpe DVD's - £7.99 each instead of £11.99, Blue Planet £17.99 instead of £34.99 and various other's.
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We had a copy of Space Camp in MVC at London Bridge for £3.99 yesterday!
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Originally posted by Werdna1979
I bought Space Camp for £13 about 2/3 months ago, it appeared in Play.com's £6.49 sale a week later!!
Sorry .. I can't help myself .. you bought Space Camp ... ??? :lol: :lol: :lol:
Sorry, I know what you mean. My Usual Suspects SE was selling for £8 or £9 not so long ago after I paid full price on release.
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Originally posted by cluderi
Sorry .. I can't help myself .. you bought Space Camp ... ??? :lol: :lol: :lol:
it was one of my favourite films when I was about 11 ( Lea Thompson :norty: )...
...and anyway, I needed one more disc to make-up a full DV-Depot box...
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Not too long ago:
Futurama Season 1 - £28 from Play....
I refuse to even look at this thread... :(
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If we could have that deals a lot earlier, we could have extra 500 pounds to buy more DVDs :nuts:
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bought 2 copies of "About a Boy" R2 one for me, one for xmas pressie. Paid at £14.99 @ play.com (cheapest at the time!)
the next bloody day it's £12.99 at play :mad:
go past Sanity on Vic Station the day after that and it's bloomin £9.99 :mad: :mad:
It's only been out a few weeks!!!!!!!!!!!! :brickwall
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I've noticed this a lot too. My whole collection is getting devalued.
Just look at the classifieds. Most 'new' titles can be picked up for around £9-£11 when 6 months or so ago it would be at least £11-£13. It's really turned into a buyers market. Back catalogue stuff is about £6-£8 or less.
I very rarely by any new titles now, it's just not worth it.
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yep DVDs are getting cheaper now, well not the RRPs but sales are getting better and better.
most stuff in MVC sale is like £7.99, its great !
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I brought The Long Good Friday for £14.99 a month later it was £6.49 but mine has the black slip case so it was worth it:brickwall
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I call this the "Pre-Order vs. Patience" conundrum. Save a quid or two by pre-ordering or just wait a few months and make some serious savings in sales or promotions. This mainly applies to R2 tho'.
D.
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I've become more careful about buying R2s on release... If I MUST have a title early, it will usually be the cheaper R4 (cause of picture quality), or R1 in the case of a title released much earlier or other regions having defects (like the sound on FOTR).
When I see the likes of Requiem for a Dream, Angel Heart and Manhunter for £5.99 at Play, I'm so jealous of the lucky sods who will discover them at that price!
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Ohhhhhhh, yes.... Most sickening ones were probably buying The Godfather Trilogy last year at near full price only to see it drop to about £20 at the MVC sales a couple of months later! :gag:
The other major one was buying about half a dozen HKL titles from play for £14.99 to see them put them all on sale for £8.99 the following week :oh-hum:
What can you do, eh....?
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Yeah, I almost never buy any new releases on R2 anymore, with the odd exception of course (Red Dwarf). Pretty much every release by the major distributors (EIV, Cloumbia Tristar, Buena Vista etc.) can almost always be picked up for below £10 within 6 months or less. EIV are the worst for this, you can already pick up Goldmember for £8.49 and it's only been out for a month:shocker: . The only new releases I buy are collectable R1s that are unlike ley to be released here (Criterions, Walt Disney Treasures) plus cheap discs from Oz and Hong Kong.
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It seems to me that over the last 6 months there are studios who are more guilty than others over this.
For example Anchor Bay (R2) and HKL titles are always marked down in these sales (usually to half price or so). Eg, Long Good Friday, Obsession and HKL Platinums
EiV titles are always in the sales, but with a lesser discount (waiting for the massive discounts on LotR for instance). Eg, Blade 2 has come down to £10 in these sales.
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Now the only full price dvds I'll get are:
Brand new R1's from dvdsoon.
Titles I REALLY want (red dwarf S2)
I bought the first 2 sharpe dvds for £13 from mvc. When I saw the boxset coming out, I waited till mvc had a 10% off weekend, and then pre-ordered it (£75), and sold the other two dvds for close to what I bought them for. Now you can get them all for £8 each (except the last which is £9). So that's £18 for a cardboard box. It's nice, but not THAT nice.
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I got all the Star Trek TNG sets and now you can get the first 3 for £49.99 when I paid £66.99 each for the first two.
The trouble is I cannot wait. I held of getting spiderman and tried to get it in Games' 2 for £25 but at the time I coudn't find another one. I saw Goldmember but just paid £15.99 for it elsewhere.
I have now seen Goldmember for just £8.49 in WHSmiths.
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I bought Armageddon (for my sister in law who begged and begged...) about 18 months ago from Criterion (US$45) only to find it being released with the SAME extras locally for about US$10!
Lucky I hate the movie (and can afford to waste money:D )
Now I wait (usually) until the movie I want is on special.
Unless I want it now (eg LOTR)
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Originally posted by Ghost Dog
EIV are the worst for this, you can already pick up Goldmember for £8.49 and it's only been out for a month:shocker:
Don't you mean the best ?.
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Originally posted by pompeyfan
It's got to the point now, that unless it is a film I really want (or is R1) then I'll wait untill they appear in the sales
Even R1's are no longer exempt... I paid £16 for my copy of 'Donnie Darko' a little while back and now you can pick it up for next to nowt from DVDSoon.
Mind you - it's such a darn good film it's worth £16 and more!
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Billy Connolly: Live
Lee Evans: Live
Paid 16.99 each now 8 pound something.
Will wait till the sale before i buy any stand up next year. :(
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Originally posted by staffyman
Even R1's are no longer exempt... I paid £16 for my copy of 'Donnie Darko' a little while back and now you can pick it up for next to nowt from DVDSoon.
Mind you - it's such a darn good film it's worth £16 and more!
:thumbs: Just ordered a copy from DVDSOON :D
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"Donnie Darko" is cheaper now thanks to Fox's re-pricing & re-issue policy that reduces the RRP on most releases about 9 months after the initial R1 release. This is a good policy and at least gives initial buyers long enough to own the disc so that they don't feel ripped off mere days after the original release date!
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Originally posted by WeaselFierce
Ohhhhhhh, yes.... Most sickening ones were probably buying The Godfather Trilogy last year at near full price only to see it drop to about £20 at the MVC sales a couple of months later! :gag:
Me too! Bought my other half this set for crimbo for £38 only to see it go in the sales on boxing day in woolies for £27 !!!!! Sickening :(
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Yeah Goldmember for £8.49 in WHSmith caught me out too!
Managed to hold off on Italian Job until HMV included it (quite quickly I thought) in a BOGOF only to see it at £6.99 in their sale, and mine's still in its shrinkwrap!
As a result I'm holding off more and more now on R2 unless there's something about the initial packaging I like.
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